New Farm

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Dress: Sister Jane via Hummingbird the Shop cotton

Heels: Kitten D'Amour vegan leather

Bag: Country Road vinyl, satin

Brooch: QLD Art Gallery gift shop handmade & handpainted ceramic

Bangle: Gift, 20th Century Antiques & Collectibles vintage silver

Bangle Stack: Gift, vintage silver

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Finally sharing all of the gorgeous pictures from a recent day out in New Farm, browsing around one of our favourite antiquing haunts, New Farm Antique Centre (formerly Commercial Road Antiques) before heading over for a delicious, leisurely lunch & a few cocktails at the delightful Botany Restaurant & Bar at Newstead's gentrified Gasworks precinct. Owing to the rapid re-escalation in Covid cases of late, we stuck to pretty strict (personally imposed) Covid-safe protocols including mask wearing, maintaining social distancing & using a liberal amount of hand sanitizer in the hopes of protecting ourselves as best as we can in these seemingly-interminable circumstances. Both businesses we visited had absolutely no issue with any of this & in fact, we commend Botany for still having tables a safe distance away from one another, in areas where fresh air can flow freely & still requiring vaccination check-ins at the door. 

For the occasion, I donned a gorgeous, fresh yellow & white gingham cotton midi dress with ruffled straps, tiered hemline & shirred bodice with black satin ribbon detailing from Sister Jane via the wonderful Hummingbird boutique in Paddington, a pair of black vegan leather dual buckle heels from Kitten D'Amour that are the brilliant fusion of comfort & style, a black woven satin & vinyl shoulder-bag-turned-crossbody-bag from Country Road to carry all the essentials, a funky, handmade & handpainted ceramic cockatoo brooch from the Queensland Art Gallery gift shop, a vintage silver bangle stack (gifted by some dear friends) & a single vintage silver bangle from the sadly-now-closed 20th Century Antiques & Collectibles at Coolangatta.

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Calamari with Lettuce & Aioli

Crispy Skinned Barramundi on a bed of Mashed Sweet Potato, Crispy Potatoes, Bok Choy & Eggplant

BEST. COCKTAILS. EVER.

Absolutely ADORED my Elderflower Cocktail...

Scroll down for more pictures of the beautiful "greenspace" created in the gentrified Gasworks precinct that truly brings a bit of magic to inner-city Brisbane...