Embarrassing and Awesome Evidence of a Cocktail Boozanza

The birthday of my bestie and I falls exactly one month apart, so every year we have a shindig/hootenanny/gathering/extravaganza smack bang in the middle. This year (since we are getting long in the tooth), we decided to have a sophisticated little soiree – a cocktail boozanza.

It was a quaint affair, as you can see below.

This was less than half the booze! See that amazing vintage, glass cocktail

shaker with ingredient measurements down the side? I thrifted that - $6. 

Middle set of 6 tall glass glasses, and 5 pink martini glasses - thrifted; $11 for all. BOOM.

The evening started charmingly. We had a superbly stocked liquor cabinet, and fresh lemons and limes were prepared in tea pots (note: if you're going to do this, do make sure you strain the juice – the pulp causes havoc getting through the tea spout, we discovered).


My bestie and I were treated to a gift fit for queens (of which we were amongst many that night).

Sidenote: Sorbent should totally sponsor this blog.

One of our friends (the dark haired one above) is a reformed bartender, and he made us our very first martinis! Here we are, being fancy ladies about it:


The olives were delicious, the beverage was quite foul. Perhaps Vodka Martinis are better?

I can do bad, bad things to an olive or two. Like, eat them. 

The all time favourite drink of the night was definitely the “Thai Tiger”. It seems there are no photos (?!), but I will treat you to the recipe. The sounded weird. Do cocktails have 'recipes'? I don't see why not!

THAI TIGER – DELICIOSO EXTRAORDINAIRE

1 part lemongrass and ginger syrup

(you make this simply by cooking down 2 parts granulated sugar to one

part water with some crushed lemongrass and, if you want,

some fresh ginger and a lime leaf)

2 parts fresh coconut juice

(this is optional – i've never used it because i'm cheap, and they are amazing without)

1 part vodka

1 small chilli, sliced

1.5 parts freshly squeezed lime juice

(fresh is VERY important)

Sprite or 7-up

You just chuck everything except the sprite/7-up in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake your booty, and then strain into a glass (highball suggested, but not mandatory). Top up with sprite or 7-up, and garnish with some lemongrass, a sliver of chilli and/or a juicy wedge of lime! NOM

Now here's where things start to get really fabulous.

If you're unfamiliar with that bootiful diaomond ring, that's Sam of Sam Doesn't Know Things.

And then I got sick of my part frock (which was from Target, PS), changed into my pyjamas and fell asleep on the couch with Gomez. Sam was kind enough to snap us while we were vulnerable. And yes, my terry towelling Hello Kitty pyjama shorts are amazing, thanks for noticing :)

Such a Tart(an)

This isn't a particularly spesh OOTD, but it happened because I have a photography class this semester. So me and my pal Sam got our paws on a nifty camera from uni, and went on an adventure to eat steamed vegetarian dumplings and take cliché Melbourne alley photos. We still suck. One of these is even blurry. But they were the least blurry of them all. But hey, we're learning!

Cardi: Target

Dress: thrifted

Pants: thrifted

Chilli Earrings: somewhere in Europe! Present from my bestie :)

Marilyn Monroe Ring: Dandy Long Legs

Blurry, but whatevs!

The boots are Docs, which i'm normally not a fan of because the toes are too round - I like my shoes more squared (like a witch). BUT (cute story)... one morning I heard someone rustling around in the outskirts of my room. I blearily opened my eyes to see my housemate (and bestie, and band mate) holding up my standard everyday boots. I couldn't really see what he was doing, but he told me he was just checking my size. I didn't think much of it and went back to sleep. When I woke up, there was magically a brand new pair of Docs sitting in my doorway. Turns out he was walking to the bus stop and saw one of the neighbours have a garage sale. He saw the boots and thought I would like them, so he bought them for me. What a sweetie! Now I have Docs, and you know what? I'm kind of used to the weird (to me) shape, now. 

Oh shoosh, you!

Yeah, so my earrings are chillies. What of it? One of my besties got them for me somewhere in Europe, and I adore them. One of the best things is, no matter the weather I can always justify wearing them. If it's summer I say to myself "better wear my chillies cos it's so HOT today!" And then when it's winter, I say "better wear my chillies cos i'm so CHILLY today!" Yeah. Uh huh. 

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Sam's a cool kid. But he MAY eat your babies. I dunno, maybe that makes him cooler? Definitely.