What I Wore: Application Collecting

With moving to a new area comes the wonderful job search. When there are no jobs in your field, like me right now,  ya gotta hit the streets. And hit the streets I did..well I hit up a few bookshops..not a street. When walking in I was hoping they would secretly love me at first glance and want to hire me. The hiring didn't happen...but you never know people could have secretly fallen for me.

.the details.

dress:  Asos :: cardigan: Target

shoes & purse: Urban Outfitters

scarf: TJ Max :: ring: The Afternoon

.To Do in Melbourne: Part 1.

Melbourne, oh Melbourne, how I love thee!! This was the city Dave and I started our tour de Aussie. We only were able to spend four days in Melbourne and it definitely was NOT enough! While we were in Melbourne we longed to be able to stay more days, but our schedule and reservations made it not possible.  

If you ever find ourself in this amazing city, here are few things you should add to your agenda:

1. Queen Victoria's Market.  

This is the largest open air market in the Southern Hemisphere with 17 acres of stalls! You can find items ranging from fresh food to souvenirs to basically anything you could ever need.  This is also a great place to people watch with over 200,000 people passing through weekly. 

134 years young!

BONUS: It's on the FREE tourist shuttle route

2. Shrine of Remembrance

This is Victoria's memorial to the men and women who have served Australia in armed conflicts and peacekeeping operations throughout the nation's history. This is a wonderful, beautiful, and moving memorial. Dave and I spent a few hours walking around the memorial, taking in the views of the city, and watching the laying of the wreath. This is also a stop on the FREE tourist shuttle!

Unknown Tomb

view from the top

2p.m. laying of the wreath at the Unknown Tomb

3. Royal Botanic Gardens

The gardens are right across from the Shrine of Remembrance, making it a next great stop. The Royal Botanic Gardens are one of the best in Australia and in the world, I would have to agree. With the beautiful gardens and wide array of pants both native and non native you could spend hours wandering in the gardens. I suggest packing a light lunch, find shade under the perfect tree, and join the other picnickers. It's also a great place to read a book and people watch!!

View of entrance to Royal Botanic Gardens from Shrine of Remembrance

4. Run the Tan

What is the Tan? The Tan is a running track, 3.8km, that runs parallel to the Botanic Gardens. It got it's name due to the surface color of the stone it is made of. The track is famous amongst joggers, runners, and walkers alike. The quickest lap around the Tan is 10 min. and 8 seconds by AFL player Craig Mottram, during this lap he gave his team members a 2 min. head start and still beat them all!!

Dave running The Tan!

5. Queen Victoria Park

After the Royal Botanic Garden and running a little on The Tan, walk on over to Queen Victoria Park. This is another beautiful park filled with flowers, fountains, and a lovely statue of Queen Victoria. You can take a quick walk through, read a book, or find a bench to do a little people watching. 

What We Wore: Target Edition

Dave and I were running errands the other day and figured why not take some outfit pictures. We actually had a really fun time taking pictures with people looking at us like we are weird! It's nothing new for us, we get those looks ALLLL the time!!

Also, did you know that Target was founded in Minnesota? Yep, it's one of the MANY companies started in this wonderful state.  Ask all my previous students and they can now list at least 3 MN companies!

(Sorry my face is blurry, but you get the whole effect in this one)

I love all the wonderful bright colors of nail polish!

I don't really paint my nails, but I may now do it ALL the time.

What a stud, huh?

What we Wore:

.sho.

shirt: Avella :: pants: Merona

cardigan: Mossimo :: shoes: Xhiliration

scarf: Charlotte Russe 

.dave.

shirt: Merona :: pants: Merona

Jacket: Old Navy :: shoes: Target

The funny thing is when at Target, 

our outfits were mostly Target branded!!!

.diy shoes.

Happy Thursday!!!

Can you believe it's almost Friday? Seriously, where did this week go? Who knows, maybe it went to Kansas or to Orlando. If I was this week, I would go to Orlando to visit all those fun amusement parks I've heard so much about.

Enough about that. On to the real reason you are probably reading this post (maybe it's because I am funny..no?). Last week Dave and I went to Goodwill to make a donation and then do a little shopping. We found a chair and a pair shoes. It seemed like Kaylah also found the same pair of shoes in a Goodwill near her. She came up with this great DIY, that I knew I had to test it out.

These are the shoes I purchased:

Regular cute gray shoes!

AND these are the shoes I now own:

Cute shoes with a touch of pizazz! 

I can't wait to wear these, especially this summer!

 I think that they can add a little touch of sparkle to any dress or outfit!

  

.summer dreamin'.

Yesterday the weather was in the 50's!!  Yes, you heard me correct..in the 50's in early March in Minnesota.Talk about coming in like a lamb!  When I was growing up my mom wouldn't let me wear shorts in the winter. She always said it had to be at least 50* before I could wear them. And you bet it, as soon as the mercury hit that beloved 5-0 I was putting on my shorts and running around dreaming about summer vacation!

So in spirit of that, I HAD to look at some cute dresses for this summer. Here are some of my favorites that if I had tons of money I would buy them all right now!

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And because I'm slightly practical, here is a little something I could wear year round...like right now!!

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So what items are on your summer dreaming list? 

p.s. Isn't this model just the cutest girl ever! 

       

  

Tuesday Tunes: The Pogues

It's March, which means it is time to start preparing for St. Patricks Day. The best way to do this is by listening to great Irish inspired music. Don't know any? Well, no worries, I'm here to help you. This month (yes the WHOLE month..even after St. Patty's) I will be featuring an Irish sounding/inspired group on Tuesday Tunes.

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The first band is one of my favorites, The Pogues. Dave and I have big fans of them for a few years now. The Pogues have been referred to as a Celtic Punk band, thus a reason why they are popular within the punk music scene. (The first time I heard of them was from a Punk/Rock VJ on Fuse)  They got together in London around 1982 with Shane MacGowan as the lead singer, you may recognize him as the person with the most f*cked up teeth EVER.  And like every rock group, they made it big, the lead singer was a drunk, they replaced him, then broke up, and now reunited to play together once again.

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Shane's famously horrible teeth...oh those Irish lads.

I have a short little playlist together of some of my favorite songs by them. It in the playlist is my favorite Christmas song of all time (sorry HANSON) and a song that was performed during our wedding ceremony. I hope you give them a listen and it adds to your preparations for St. Patricks Day!

.shoave recap.

Hey everyone!

I hope you had a great weekend!! What did you do this weekend? I would love to hear! Dave and I had our Shoave weekend which included the following:

Watching lots and lots of TV and a few movies.
We have never had On Demand before
 and used it to catch up on some tv shows we missed while we were gone. 

Took tons of photos of us doing silly, stupid, things!
p.s. I am NOT choking Dave.

Made two recipes that had only three ingredients each!
Picture aboved: Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
We also made BBQ shredded chicken...SOO good!

All the awesomeness of the weekend took it's toll on us  (we are getting old)
so we added napping into our agenda. 

All in all we had a great weekend. I'm sadly  proud to say I didn't leave the apartment once, watched lots of Project Runway All Stars, a silly movie about Scrabble, tried new recipes, and even got one workout done. 

Now here is to having a great week!! 

Anything fun planned for this week?