And so it feels like the blink of an eye and already we are in March. Its Autumn, yet feels like just yesterday we were singing the praises of the Spring Racing Carnival. It’s been nearly a month since my birthday, close to three since Christmas. How time flies when you are having fun.

I suppose it is around this time of year that we start to feel a touch of the blah, the weather is beginning to turn, it’s still dark at 6am and soon we will be cleaning the cobwebs out of our heaters. A perfect opportunity one might say to clean out the wardrobe – out with old and in with the new – just in time for the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.

Some of you may recall some rather significant cleaning out on my part around August of last year, right before my big (or little if you think about how much I actually took and what I left behind) move to the city. Mum and Dads rumpus room was to be a temporary storage space while I sorted out my life and then it was all going to appear on eBay or at a garage sale, making me my fortune and paying for the next 6 months worth of new stuff.

Now 6 months on, the pile at Mum and Dads is no smaller, my feeble attempts to sell on eBay have been limited to only 3 or 4 batches of items and while I did have the best of intentions, another clean out this weekend has put me right back at square one. The pile continues to grow.

It really is a space issue at my apartment – its very limited and as much as this fashionista loathes to throw anything away (or sell it) I am scared that at some point, it will all come back in fashion and I will be rendered with the regret of hindsight – ‘It will always come back in fashion’ is my mantra. As my wardrobe expands with each seasons new styles and I begin to pile shoes in other parts on the house, it seems my apartment is starting to become one giant walk in wardrobe (complete with kitchenette and bathroom).

Katherine Heigl contends with her overstuffed closet in 27 Dresses

I have earrings adorning a giant piece of tulle hanging from the wall (I call it art). There are pearl necklaces hanging on the mirror in the living room; scarves in a vase on the coffee table. Corsages line the top of the heater and sparkly brooches are attached for a bit of colour. Diamante shoes sit atop a Vogue storage box, handbags hang off the dining room table chairs and each of my two doorways are covered in dresses while fascinators perch gingerly on the cheval mirror. The laundry hamper is full of flat, everyday style shoes at the front door, a weeks worth of cardigans and jackets cover the couch.

This week’s clean out was by no means extensive (I only did the hanging space and the tall boy) but at least it’s a start. I even listed a few pieces on eBay (you can find them here: http://shop.ebay.com.au/sarahsstyleemporium/m.html?_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1) though my laziness surely shows given that I listed them in bulk lots (grab two or three skirts for the price of one!).

As fast as I manage to put these items up for sale, I find something new that takes my fancy – last weeks Cue dress and Ansdorf jacket, this week’s Robert Robert shoes from Miss Money Penny (www.missmoneypenny.net.au). It’s a never ending cycle of fashion and fabulousness.

Only 11 days left til the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival and who know what I’ll be inspired by there? Perhaps it will be time to start storing sweaters in my oven a la Carrie Bradshaw or using my pantry for additional shelving. Come to think of it, the fridge is probably great extra space as well – lord knows there is never any food in there!