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SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Brisbane, featuring pop-up shops and other places that are so hard to find that Google doesn't even know about them yet. SHOP attempts to open your minds, hearts and wallets to the plethora of things that you can probably live without but in actuality don't want to. Clothes, jewellery, books, bikes, bags, shoes, bags that look like shoes - SHOP gives new meaning to the superficial - wait, we're confused.
My Tel, specifically Linda
Leaving an iPhone screen unprotected is like sprinkling Drano over your kid's Fruit Loops. A disaster waiting to happen. Hit up the fluorescent lights of Indooroopilly Shopping Centre and find My Tel, a modest phone accessory kiosk selling a whole bunch of covers and knick knacks for your mobile, totally on the cheap.
New Farm Antiques Centre
The New Farm Antiques Centre is one of those places that can easily be missed - but if shouldn't be. Tucked away in the Newstead end of town, its modest, somewhat conservative-style entrance belies the treasures that await inside.
Immediately upon entry you'll be struck by the maze of chandelier-lit corridors, dark and enticing as they lead you around to curious little nooks of yesteryear's best bounty, all precisely arranged by avid collectors to resemble the dressing rooms and sitting rooms of decades past.
Nook
September has drawn to a close and spring has most definitely sprung, leaving only thirty-one more precious days to dust-off the Dust Buster and embark on a spring cleaning frenzy. Before you begin the annual outing-with-the-old, however, I would recommend a trip to Nook - a teeny shop that is taking the concept of "one man's trash is another man's treasure" to a whole new level.
Kim + Judi
Ask any Southsider for directions to the nearest location for good coffee and worthy shopping - they're likely to point you towards Martha Street Village. She might be the new kid on the Village block, but Kim + Judi is fast becoming one of Coorparoo's most admired.
The leafy depths of the city outskirts provide the perfect backdrop for the store's collection of flora-and-fauna-inspired stationary, clothing, jewellery, ceramics, furniture, soaps and home wares.
Open Sundays
"You know when you forget your best friend's birthday and you can't really give them that iTunes voucher from the petrol station, because everyone knows they sell them at the petrol station. That's when you need Open Sundays."
Wise words from the eclectic man who introduced us to the concept of $2 tacos on a Tuesday, the simple joys of fairyfloss at monster parties, and the happy glee of Alibi's bike sales.
NineLives Online Shop
Are you always the last to hear about something big? Feel left out when everyone knows about something and you are the one person in the corner thinking to themselves "what the hell are they on about?" Ever rocked up to a sale to find the one thing you were looking for walked out the door five minutes before you walked in? Well now is your chance to turn that all around.
La Bella Donna
Things are looking up in Brisbane's East Side folks; amidst the take-aways, doctors surgeries, laundromats and K-Rudd's office on Wynnum Road, there are a few little gems to be found. A new favourite being La Bella Donna (spotted just across the road from the coolest barbers in town), there she sits, back straight and pearls shining like a real lady should.
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