Travelling Lost Girl

So one of the reasons I really wanted to go to Melbs was because of the Curvy Couture Roadshow, a plus size fashion event! Also my lovely friend Bec is modelling. So off I pop for the first part of a very long day (I went to a Painty Party the same night!)

Looking ready to go!

Ready and waiting, managed to snag myself a seat!

Annnd we're off!

There's Bec! Managed to get many many decent photos of your back dear. This is what happens when I'm not sure of the rhythm of the models and not sure where they're stopping haha

Another lovely one of your back!

Some of these pictures are because I fell in love with the clothing. No.1 Unattainable clothing item: Skirt

(I am a skint traveler. I can't afford to be buying couture/boutique fashion!)

No.2 Unattainable clothing item: The jacket (and her body!)

Hurrah! Actually got one of your face Bec!

After checking on facebook during the break I spy Bec's boyfriend is here and in the audience. Cheeky pic!

And thankfully Anthony takes a nice pic of me before the second show starts up.

Next up - Underwear!! Woohoo!

Woohoo! Go Bec!!

Actually, a great butt shot!

This model above blew me away. She exudes sass and attitude, and rocks pretty much ANYTHING she wears! Had a wee bit of a starstruck moment haha

Bec's sister's clothing line - Bombshell Vintage I LOVELOVELOVE her stuff. She has genuine vintage clothing along with stunning recreation vintage. I have a clothing line crush.

This is Casey Donovan. I had no idea who she was until (well) after my trip and found out she won Australian Idol a few years back. She's definitely got a set of pipes on her, and she supports the Body Love movement :)

I thought the Sportswear line catwalk was really cute. They each had a little thing they did, High Fives, wiggles and whatevers to keep them smiling

Another Clothing Line I loved!

Please excuse my drooling over the Mermaid collection!

Unattainable fashion: Whole Clothing Line.

SHIT GOT CRAZY! The girl in the cupcake dress stacked it JUST after I took this photo. She's a total CHAMP though, just got up, finished posing (as below, check out the defiant face) and got the BIGGEST applause when she left the catwalk. Good on you for getting up and carrying on petal!

This was the only picture I took of this line. I thought the pose was cute :) Didn't like any of their clothes, and thought that the brand name wasn't good... (Hey Fatty. Doesn't bother me, but I reckon there's loads of women who would find that offensive. It's a slow process to reclaim the word "Fat")

Casey finishing up the show. She was great

And now picture me drooling over all the clothes I WANT and are in here in the traders hall...

Selfie with Bec's sis in the background (in the green)

Bec is still in model mode :)

Check out ma sweaty face!

Last selfie of the day. Felt it was needed (why do I need a reason I ask?!)

I've been threatening to go to Melbourne for a long time now, so there happened to be a few things going on at the same time which nicely coincided with my decision to jump on a plane and go to Melbourne!

The first on the agenda was seeing my brother though. I haven't seen him since he emigrated 16 years ago!

The following Melbs/Victoria blogs are super photo heavy so I'll break them up!

I planned on attending The Curvy Couture Roadshow, then popping over to the Australian Body Art Awards for their Cospaint Ball, all in one day!

Then it'll be spending some serious catch up time with my brother, then back in the city a couple of times to catch the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

So I have a busy couple of weeks ahead of me!

Firstly, Suzanne and I booked the same flight, and I experienced my first domestic flight in Australia. It reminded me a little of my flight to Newquay from London... Different!

We got the 1am flight that would bring us to Melbourne at around 7am. I did not think this through, considering I don't sleep on planes unless I have a row to myself, and I'd only managed an hour and a half's kip before we left (token gesture more than anything)

So as we arrived and had a lovely early breakfast with Suzanne's parents, we had time to kill before Suze could check in to her hotel, and I had to hang around so my brother would finish work!

Roughly 2 days and 1.5 hours sleep... this does not make a happy Carla. But I staggered on. We decided to get on the free tram around Melbs and go investigate.

Sunglasses in the case. Of course.

This is the free tram - the number 35! It does a loop around the city, and is quite quaint.

We got as far as Flinders Street Station. I needed to go here anyway to get down to Frankston later. It's a rather beautiful station!

Suzanne took me to one of the most iconic bars/pubs in Melbourne - Young and Jacksons. She said we needed to go and see Chloe... I said "Well I hope she's in today, how do you know her?" Stupid pom. She's a local legend...

Bedraggled, intrepid explorers! Pity this mirror didn't show our best side haha... I did want it badly though!

We sat just to the left of this mirror, and watched the world go by at Flinders St Station. We had a superb view for some serious people watching. And watch people we did!

All manner of movers and shakers, tourists, kids, hip adults, not so hip adults, disco grannies and the like all walked past the station. We also saw a music video being made - though I think it may have been an amateur one rather than pro! But still, exciting stuff.

And here's Chloe. She's beautiful. Click on her name for the whole back story. I did read it, but was becoming increasingly erratic after my lack of sleep. I ended up having to stop talking after a while because talking and walking became too much and I stacked it a few times!

Suzanne kindly let me kip in her hotel room for an hour before I headed off on the train down to Frankston.

Now for some serious family time! I met my brother at Frankston station, and after marveling at how heavy my suitcase was for just two weeks... we had a little trip to Frankston beach.

Frankston itself reminds me a little of the general East coast English seaside towns. A bit crappy. But the beach is something else I tell you!