Makims at Moreden Artisan Market - Fundraiser for St Jude's Tanzania

Image courtesy of www.schoolofstjude.co.tz

In February 2002, Gemma Sisia (nee Rice) from northern NSW in Australia, founded The School of St Jude in Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa. As a charity funded school, St Jude’s provides a free quality education to approximately 1,500 of the poorest children of Arusha, Tanzania, while also providing boarding for over 900 students. Additionally, the school now provides employment to over 340 Tanzanians and purchases the essential goods required to run the school everyday from the local community. The ripple effect of these benefits on the community and beyond has been incredible.

The Makim family has come together to create an Afternoon Artisan Market to raise funds for this very hardworking school. 
21 May 2011, 2:30pm - 5:00pm.

"Moredun"

1419 Moredun Road

Ben Lomond, NSW Australia

Judi Makim will be our hostess with the mostess. 
Airdrie Makim will be bringing Joolz jewellery, designer clothes from a number of beautiful (and generous) brands, and designer handbags up from Melbourne. Neroli Makim will be down from Brisbane to autograph her book, 'Your Creative Success'. Afternoon tea will be provided, and of course as it is the Makims there will be the odd glass of bubbly about.

Entry to the Artisan Market is free, there will be a donation box and up to 100% (some designers have donated their entire sales, some have donated 50%) of the proceeds of all sales made on the day will go to St Jude's.

Makims at Moreden Artisan Market - Fundraiser for St Jude's Tanzania

Fashion for men in the 70s - superhot or supernot?

So I got this email from a friend of mine this morning - absolute GOLD.
I have to share it with you guys, its too good not to!

Don't skip the copy that accompanies these gems from a bygone era, particularly this first one below.
Oh, and I love "Men in belted sweaters". And those Eleganza shoes? Pimpin!

Are YOU man enough to fill it?

"Just make sweet sweet love to the camera, Steve. Yeah, that's it man!"

This stretch terry jumpsuit comes with or without hood - so you can be as gangsta as you wanna.

Not only is that a damn fine hat, but that open-necked shirt gives me heart flutters. At least, I think that's what's going on...

The ties. Oh, the ties.

Jack's got his proud face on. Suzy cannot believe that collar!

Unfortunately we were so eager to include the caped suit that we had to cut away most of the seated beauty who had fallen to the floor in a swoon over how fly our boys are looking here.

Shoes = $34.95 Coat = $94.95 Suit = $57.95 Absolute Pimpin-ness = Priceless

Jerry and John laughed at Greg, as they scored all the pretty colours. Oh, how they laughed!

"Mama always told me that I'd know my true love by the belted sweater he wore - with so much dashing charisma, how could I say no?"

"Hey, where did all the weed go? You promised us, man!" "Aw shiiit, looks like Bruce got started early"

Nothing says 'happy families' like matching sleepwear!

Fashion for men in the 70s - superhot or supernot?

Front page of T&M Mag

Mucho excited to log on to Facebook this morning and find out from one of my fave models that we've made the front page of T&M Magazine with a photoshoot I styled a few months back.

Nice work team!

Photographer: Kirra Jayde
Makeup: Raeoni Davies
Hair: Samuel Sparrow Krutop
Model: Lauren Elizabeth Aitken
Stylist: moi

UPDATE
Not only did we make the front page of their website, but this shoot also ended up on the cover! Super-chuffed. Looking forward to getting my copy!

Front page of T&M Mag

Time for a giveaway for you!

Its time for a giveaway!
Yes m'dears, it has been a while - so time for a lucky Joolz lover to score some treats!



The cold weather has started again so we all need brooches to decorate scarves, jackets and beanies. This pack of 4 joolz brooches should sort you out! And a luscious lipgloss pack from DJs to keep your smile pretty and shiny as the temperature drops. RRP for this little pack of loveliness is $50 - but its free to one lucky Joolz Fan.

As usual, all people who comment go into the draw. I'll take comments from both here and the Facebook Fanpage. The winner's name will be drawn at random using The Hat on Thu 14 April at 6pm.
Ready... set... GO! Good luck everyone!

Terms & Conditions:

• To enter you must be over 18 years of age, entry excludes employees of Joolz and its affiliates or agents, the families of such employees and any other person connected with this promotion. 

• The Promoter will not be liable for applications not received, incomplete, or delayed. Last date for receipt of entries is 6pm on 14 April 2011. 

• To enter, please leave a comment at this blog or on our Facebook fanpage.

• All entries received by this date will be entered into a prize draw and the winner will be chosen using a random name generator (The Hat).

• The winning entry will receive the brooches and lip gloss as pictured in the above listing.

• The prize is as stated and cannot be transferred, sold or exchanged. There is no cash alternative. No bulk or third party entries accepted. 

• The winner will be notified through this blog and/or the Joolz Facebook fanpage and/or email on 14 April 2011.

• By entering this competition, entrants agree to be bound by the rules and by any other requirements set out here.

Time for a giveaway for you!

Beauty shoot with Lucia, Raeoni & Katie

I got together early on Friday morning with Lucia, Raeoni & Katie to shoot some beauty images. It was a little chilly in the early morning, and we were hoping for some sunshine, but we managed to work around these small problems!

Katie and joolz ring

Pearls, pearls and more pearls. Plus some other stuff.

Bird bodysuit, red socks, heels, and joolz.

Beauty shoot with Lucia, Raeoni & Katie

Adding a splash of colour

I'm in love with adding a splash of colour, and it seems that I'm not alone. I've noticed when checking out photos of what people are wearing around the world at the moment that there is definitely a big interest in colour out there right now. Those of us living in Melbourne love our black, and I doubt I'll be changing drastically, but I'm trying to make sure to break it up with some colour whenever I go out at the moment. Adore these ideas:

image courtesy of style.com

image courtesy of The Sartorialist

When I started planning it, I was pretty sure that my next collection was going to be black and white. But different colours kept creeping in. I can't seem to help it, its going to be bright and colourful instead! Hahaha, completely not what I had originally planned, but that's the way things go when designing a new collection sometimes!

New joolz multi-coloured agate cross necklace, coming soon!

I am looking forward to sharing the new collection with you, I have had lots of fun making it. Not long now!

Adding a splash of colour

I wear my heart on my tee exhibition

 

So, last night saw the launch of the Town Hall Gallery's third I Wear My Heart On My Tee exhibition, a yearly event showing off tshirt designers' works. This celebration of all things tee illustrates how much we use a tshirt to say things about ourselves - political statements or cute pictures? I think my personal collection tends towards the latter, although - horror of horrors from a tshirt designer's perspective - I actually have a lot of plain tees - yes'm, without any embellishment at all! What can I say, I'm a jewellery designer - sometimes I like a blank canvas to show that stuff off.

As well as having all the walls covered in tees, there was a long table in the middle with extra items that could be picked up and purchased on the night. Great idea to help out those 'struggling artistes'! One issue that was mentioned on the night was that it was a shame that the colours tended to be grouped together on the walls. Eg one wall section had all red tees, another had all grey ones, etc. I thought originally that it was quite a pleasing composition, but as it was pointed out to me last night, it meant that you didn't look as closely at each individual tshirt design. Ahhh, very true!

Mardi Nowak, curator, tells us of her love of tees

I went along to check out the work of local Aussie designers T-Shirt Garage, Tomorrow Never Knows and Ruffbat Creative, and also got to check out some new names I hadn't heard of before: Well, Almost Human, Silly Pear, Bike Path, Maru design, Amy Canal, Persistently Plastic, Bronze Temple, Indie, Bad meets Evil, 7 Breaths, Best Fiend, Georgia Thorpe, EDAR, Jessica Dib-Newberry, Grumpy Tommi, Ray L Design, Freyart, Malamoop, Ging...er Ellie, Kristy Brown, & Yvette Phipps. Lots of good stuff!


A great night was had by all, always good to see local galleries showing some interesting works. I have to admit I have been increasing the collection of tees with some sort of iconography on the front, but I'm still pretty attached to a plain tee that I can mess about with, too. Pass me the scissors!

Loved in particular this sweet image!

Liked this one too!

I wear my heart on my tee exhibition