The End

It seems to me that this blog for me has come to an end, at least for now. Thanks so much for all your support and follow me at little lost love

xx Hollie

Try this....

Twiggy's 60's eyes!

image via sour cherry

Shop my closet!

Ok, so I have had a Vegan and Vintage Etsy shop for exactly one year today (crazy!) so I thought it was about time that I started listing things to sell!

So I am making today the official launch day of the Vegan & Vintage Etsy Store and to celebrate I am offering free shipping to all blog readers and I will be adding little surprise handmade gifts in with all orders!

To take advantage of this, make sure you leave a little message in the notes to seller section when checking out and I will refund the shipping costs straight back into your pay pal account. This is for a very limited time only!!!!

Also, if you have loved any of my vintage goodies that you have seen on the blog over the last year that I haven't yet listed on Etsy, feel free to get in contact! You can also check out my Modepass page for lots of images.

Take a look here and tell me what you think!

xx Hollie

Betty Blue

Take a look at Betty Blue Vintage on Etsy - Gorgeous pieces (these are my three favourite picks) at very affordable prices!

simple vegan soups

Well, because this is kind of meant to be a vegan blog, I thought I should share some recipes! here are my three favourite soup recipes (not my own and I'm not entirely sure where they first came from) why don't ya make up a big pot of soup this weekend?

Potato & Leek soup
olive oil
2 large leeks - washed and sliced small
1 large onion - chopped
1/2 tsp sea salt
3 cloves minced garlic
4 medium-large potatoes - peeled and cubed
5-6 cups veggie stock (I use vegata stock powder mixed with water)
1 tsp fresh rosemary - chopped as fine as possible

Saute leeks, onion & salt in olive oil for 5 minutes. Add garlic - cook 1more min. Add potatoes and stock, boil then reduce and cook for 20 minutes. Add rosemary and blend.

To blend soup, I just use my hand held bar mix and just blend in the pot that I have been cooking in. If you don't have a blender, just mush up the bits of potato with a masher - it doesn't look as professional but tastes just as good!

Pumpkin and coconut soup
olive oil
1.5 kg pumpkin - peeled, de seeded and diced
2 onions - finely chopped
1 tsp ginger - finely chopped
2 garlic cloves - minced
1 tbsp coriander (I just use the dried stuff)
400 ml can coconut milk
500ml veggie stock
salt & pepper

Heal oil, add onion, garlic, ginger - saute for a couple of minutes. add coriander and pumpkin, stir. Add coconut milk and stock, bring to boil, reduce and cook for 30 minutes. Blend (or mash like with the potato & leek soup) season with salt and pepper.

Moroccan tomato and chickpea soup
800g can of tomatoes
400g can of chickpeas
1 cup dried red lentils - rinsed
1 brown onion - diced
2 cloves garlic - minced
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground cardamom
5 cups veggie stock

Fry onion, garlic, cardamom and coriander in oil. Add stock and tomatoes - bring to boil. Add chickpeas and lentils - simmer until lentils have broken down - about 20-30 minutes.

Comment if you have any questions - all three are really simple to make although my instructions may be a little hard to understand!

Don't buy this

Don't you hate it when you pay too much for something and it turns out to be no where near as good as you expected? Grrrrr.

A little Sunday sun

Dress & hair clip - Kinki Gerlinki

Tights - AA

Shoes - Melissa

Bag - Vintage

Sorry for being so quiet on this blog of late, I seem to have big plans but less and less time to make them reality. One thing I have done is started a tumblr. you can follow me here if you like, lets be friends!

Hope you have had a delightful weekend! xx Hollie

Perfect for thrifting....

Tote bag by Lark, it's super lovely and super cheap too!

The Love Dress

The Livlavone Love Dress is made from Vegan Leather by Blushless and has free shipping worldwide!

Small details

Another favourite tights/shoes combination. The kitty ring was a gift from a super special friend, it came from Paris! how lucky am I?

Sorry for being so long between posts, I promise to get better. Big thanks for following and all your lovely comments, I think one of the reasons that I have been so slow with this blog lately is that every time I check there seems to be new followers and new blogs to go read!

You are all so lovely, Thank you!

Hollie xxxx

Claire Inc

Claire Inc is one of the best Australian Vintage sellers I have come across on Ebay. They sell an amazing range of vintage designer pieces - well out of my price range, but with labels such as Dior, Gucci, Moschino, Chanel, etc, it is great for some inspiring fantasy shopping!

Words cannot describe...

.... how much I love this tights/shoes combination.

Too Cute!

Stella McCartney's (one of my favourite vegan-friendly designers) A/W 09-10 features Bambi!

My Vintage Vogue

My Vintage Vogue is a great website full of inspirational fashion images from the 1920's to 1960's. Enjoy!

Happy Bastille Day!!!

My gorgeous friend Sabine is a French expat living here in Melbourne. When she suggested we dress in red, white and blue today, I definitely didn't need convincing! The only hard part was narrowing down all the possible red, white and blue combinations in my closet - in the end I couldn't choose just one, I will let you decide!!

Vintage sailor inspired blue and white dress (how could I pass this one up?) tights and shoes from Kmart

Red, white and blue striped blouse - I love this so much, it was given to me as part of a vintage swap with The Vintage Year - thank you honey!!!!

Skirt from South Melbourne market and vintage shoes (believe it or not, I'm looking at the camera for once)

Hope you are having a super day, pop on some red, white and blue!

Hollie xxx

Slowly getting there

I am quietly settling in to my new little apartment and new neighbourhood, this is me (in a dress I rediscovered whilst packing) in my tiny new courtyard - it's small, but we have lots of storage space for all our junk and it feels so lovely and cozy.

I am slowly catching up on blog posts and emails - I feel a little overwhelmed but at the same time excited to se what you have all been up to - what did I miss? Also, if there is anyone new who would like to come along to our vegan knitting group but weren't able to make it to Albert Park, it is now in North Fitzroy, so if that makes it any easier for you, we would love to have you!

Dress - Dangerfield - quite a few years old

Cardigan - random cheap one, found in Sydney

Tights - Again, random cheap ones - but they are rather nice don't you think??

Wedges - Kmart - ha!

Thanks for the great feedback on the new blog too!

Hollie xxx

I must be nuts.....

..... because I knitted myself a skirt. I'm not 100% happy with it, although it fits well, I don't think it particularly suits my (slightly) curvy hips all that much - but at least I can say I did it, right?

A little close up of my handiwork:

details:

High-waisted skirt hand knitted with cotton yarn

thrifted striped top

Black wedge heels - Rubi shoes

Darling Vintage

Darling vintage have a heap of cute-as -pie dresses and great looking skirts too. Here are three of my favourites, her shop is very reasonably priced and she also writes a blog that I am a little addicted to at the moment, check it out.

Argh! My face!

Just a quick (and fuzzy) bathroom mirror photo to show off my big bow inspired by this post on this lovely new blog!

the biggest of hugs for your lovely words regarding the new blog too, you are all too sweet!

details:

scarf - vintage

knit jumper - Grab

lion's head ring - Dan McGill Jewellery

Another one!

Ok, so I have started a new blog. It's called little lost love, and it is all the little lost things that I want to blog about here, but don't feel like I should because I want to keep this blog just about vegan clothes and food and lifestyle and vintage stuff. It's mostly all the other stuff I love, photography, art and craft, music, films, and bit of the things I make too!

Would you mind taking a look and telling me what you think?? you might even want to follow me if you like what you see, but you don't have to - no pressure.

I will definitely still be posting here, so please don't worry, more to come soon I promise!

Thanks so much, big hugs to you all,

Hollie xx

Yaysies!

Just wanted to announce that we got a new place to live! It's so freaking cute too! I am posting this mostly for my knitting girls so they can take a look at where we will be meeting from in about a month's time, but I guess if anyone else would like a look, go here.

Cute right?!

Pretty girls and pretty kitties!

I recently came across the cutest group on Flickr, The Ultimate accessory, a group pool of outfit photos (like wardrobe remix) that have a cat in them! love! it's relatively new, so please join in and share, here are some of my favourites:

Cute right? Here are my two that you may or may not have seen on this blog already....

Found...

... at Miss Shop @ Myer.

I want...

Perfect right? have got to get me some red plaid tights for winter!

Image by Garance Dore

Pretty things for new walls

So I will be moving house, finally, very soon. Moving to a smaller, more modern apartment has got me thinking about what I want to get rid of (our TV, some small furniture items and a mountain of clothes will be going to charity) but I am also thinking about decorating the new place, hopefully with some of these lovely bits and pieces from Etsy.

bookish by fifi lapin

Dress up dolls wall decals by love mae

Rain girl papercut print by Elsita

M.Ward hand printed gig poster by Strawberry Luna

Oh Sarah!

Her new album is out in a couple of days, hooray! I love her music videos so much and not just to look at the beautiful vintage dressed she wears - check out this one to see what I mean.

She has a blog too!

Chocolate goodness!

These chocolate, coconut and oat bran balls are kinda not-too-unhealthy but really yummy and easy to make, hope you like them!

2 1/2 cups oat bran or oatmeal

1 cup dessicated coconut, plus a little more for rolling.

1/4 cup cocoa

1 cup maple/agave syrup
1/3 cup vegan margarine
1/2 cup soy milk
1 tablespoon vanilla

Mix oats, coconut and cocoa in bowl. Boil syrup, soy milk and margarine in saucepan then add to mixture. Add vanilla and mix well. mould mixture into small balls and roll into remaining coconut. Chill in fridge for around 2+ hours and enjoy!

A little DIY

I have a whole closet full of fabric that was given to me by a neighbour who moved away last year. Now that we will be moving into a smaller place (hopefully very soon!) I am thinking ahead and have started sorting through all the piles of sewing, art and craft supplies that have accumulated in my sewing room over the past few years.

I made this skirt yesterday out of some floral corduroy fabric that I never thought I would use, I dismissed it as super-ugly when I first received it, but now, I think I like it!

What do you think, ugly or not??

Outfit details: Skirt - self made, top - can't remember, I do know that it was really old and really cheap!, navy tights - Obus, heels - Big W

That baking time of year

Over the weekend I played around with a scone recipe to make it vegan, gluten and sugar free. Four batches later, I think I have it!

2 cups spelt flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup Soy Milk
about 50 grams Vegan margarine
1 tablespoon vanilla (I like lots!)
1 tablespoon Maple or Agave syrup

Combine dry ingredients then add margarine and kind of mash it into the mixture with a fork (does that make sense?!) Add wet ingredients and combine. Roll out onto a floured surface and break off small fist fulls to make the scones, makes about 10. Bake on an greased tray for 20 Minutes at 180 degrees Celsius. Best served with a good quality jam that doesn't contain added sugar and a big mug of Chai tea.

Shades of green and grey

So I think I have finally figured out what I will be wearing this winter. To tell you the truth, It looks rather boring compared to the bright colours and crazy florals I wrapped myself in all summer, but I am really enjoying looking a bit more subtle and a bit more "Melbourne" (for those of you overseas, apparently everyone in Melbourne dresses head-to-toe in black)

(Sorry about the bad lighting, you can click on the images to make them nice and big)

I am really loving dark shades of green, so much so that I am in the process of knitting myself a green high waisted skirt (fingers crossed I have got it right and it will fit) and I am finding that I am moving more towards grey tights rather then the black that I lived in last winter.

Oh! and a vintage scarf works well with everything, no?

How good are these shoes? I picked them up in my super vegan shoe shopping spree of a few months back, blogged about here

Olive green dress - Purr

Cardi - Crazy old, I don't remember

Tights - Kmart

Scarf - vintage, I think I may have got it from an etsy seller

Brogues - Boutique in St. Kilda