Christmas!

First off, I want everyone to have  A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS! This year, our family has done something a little different for Christmas. We're holidaying out in Adelaide, South Australia! We decided to travel on Christmas Eve from Canberra to Adelaide and we chilled at the airport for about 3 hours. Exciting I know. But the one thing that kept me happy at the terminal was these comfy seats. All wood, low tot he ground and had a big enough space for me to put my bum on!

As I was exploring the airport shops, I saw this little sharpener on the shelf. There was 2 of them in a packet and small-very cute! They come with their own container that catches all the shavings, and a small lid near the mouth of the sharpener to avoid any tiny bits falling out! So all the shavings ahve a very slim chance of escaping and dancing on the floor of a handbag.

Holidays - What I wear!

  Whenever I go on holidays, I always want to be really comfy-because travelling can really take it out of you! On our flight out of Alice I wore a pair of shorts, a big man shirt and a hat-to make it look a little better.

Angela's Christmas work party ~ 3 Dec 2010

 Angela was kind enough to invite me to her work Christmas party! Even though I didn't really know anyone there I still had a lot of fun! Angela went all-out gung-ho for the event wearing a Santa hat, red top, tinsel skirt with bells on her belt. I thought that was cool because she got to jingle everywhere she went! Nauvoo was in the green strapless dress with those killer red hells on! 

Welcome back Caitlin! 3 Dec 2010

 Caitlin's back! Yes and a bunch of us came out to welcome her home! I adore what she wore that evening. Long blonde extensions in her hair, on a canvas of a tight black mini dress and a big red bow in the front!

Sabrina came out in a colorful strapless mini and Ellen had a black mini on with pockets. All of the other gals were also dressed up in heels, dresses and work clothes. But the pics I have of them were after a few drinks-you can see them all here.

What I wore today!

Today I whipped out my old pink and white top and threw on a new black and white high waist skirt today! Warm but I didn't want to look to shabby - so I added some flat sandals to finish off the look

What I wore today!

Today I decided to mix and match my new and old stuff. I had some old army camouflage shorts, flat shoes, a big boyfriend shirt (I adore them because they are so cozy!) I found from Ed Harry's. I have no idea what it says but I'm pretty sure it's Korean. I also wore a hat and some red sunnies found at Jay Jay's. 

What I wore today!

This is what I wore today! I decided to be a little more office-like today!  decided to venture out to see how an outfit like this might work in an office environment. I think it would work out alright, bright yellow dress at the knees and an old brown button up vest.The only problem with office wear for me is that it always has to be pastel inspired colors~not exciting really. Maybe that's why some of these business people seem so upset-no color!

When I was shopping at Priceline, a lady went by and said that she loved me shoes! Oh! That made me feel so great! Isn't it good when people compliment you on something you're wearing? I gotta find out if there's a worldwide compliment people day!

What I wore today!

This is what I wore today! From the blurry picture you can see short blue jean shorts and a long white and blue print top from valleygirl. I also had on some thin silver bangles and a large heart pendant on a long chunky chain. 

Today's hair! 23 Nov 2010

My little sister is in the middle of her intensive studies - A whole week where she gets trained in a certain profession. She chose hairdressing! I am absolutely horrid at doing anything with my hair - usually ponytail, down or covered with a hat. So my sister was nice enough to do something different with my hair! Her bun is good because she's got more hair than me and it's thick - that's bun material. She said my hair was thinner and that she could just make a bun with my hair - pictured below. I think buns are a great way to fix your hair, especial if you haven't washed it. And easy but sexy fix to your uncooperative hair. 

Out in town ~ 20 Nov 2010

 After Young guns, I had a shot at doing my nails by myself~only 1 and 1/2 coats of nail polish with a finish looks pretty good to me. 

 While on the dance floor I saw my friends MinHee and MinJong. I really love MinHee's dress- zebra print and black while MinJong wore the white dress with massive flowers on it topped with a gray, short-sleeved jacket

Young Guns ~ 20 Nov 2010

 Another Young Guns was happening this Saturday! The weather was hot, plenty of drinks and everybody dressed up! I had some bright dangle yellow earrings~attached were some beads on chains, coins, necklace bits and another loop. 

 Olvia wore a strapless maxi dress with great colorful print all over it! All topped off with her big red fascinator. Lindal had a beautiful bright yellow dress finishing above the knee! I love the color yellow-it's happy and bright (matching her personality)! No more boring color bits!
And if you want to see the shoes from that day, see the Shots of Shoes Blog!

What I wore yesterday! ~ 20 Nov 2010

Today was a little busy for me ~ This morning I got my hair done at head lines for a little trim and color. So I threw on a pink shirt with LOVE on it, a high waist skirt with print on it and some flat shoes. I thought it was going to be a while, and it was; 3 hours!

I don't usually change my hair color but I thought it was time for a change; Blonde. Not all over, just a little bit but blonde on the bottom.

When I went to the Young Guns races, I was so frustrated because I didn't know what to wear! Some other dresses I had were way to formal! SO i re-used a dress~remember the Masquerade Ball? 

Nanay and Dad's 20th Wedding anniversary! ~19 Nov 2010

 Last night my parents had a party celebrating 20 years of marriage! Here they are; Dad wore the usual beach shirt with his favorite shorts. Nanay wore a blue print dress with an even blue-er under shirt.

MC and I had to help out Nanay the whole night so we dressed so that we were prepared for almost anything. I had a nice black top on; little shoulder pads and plenty of circular sequins stuck on to the front. And some board shorts- all black so if any food or dirt got onto it, you couldn't see it that easily. MC wore a dress that Nanay got her while we were in Sydney; a floral print dress with fabric that flows and bounce when MC walked round the place-Everyone else seems to love it, but I don't think it is that flattering for my little sister

What I wore today!

This morning I was invited by my dad to attend a Business breakfast at the Convention Center in Alice Springs. I woke up really early this morning because they rain was crazy at 2am! So I had plenty of time to figure out what to wear. Dad's photography is not the best, so I will do my best describing what I was wearing! I had the little black dress that I wore on Halloween, a white scarf and my favorite black winter boots. I'm also with Vanessa wearing groovy business attire, black top with puffy ruffled sleeves and gray trousers. Olivia from Westpac had the uniform on with a pencil skirt. I must admit, that when I was in school, wearing a uniform correctly wasn't cool. If you did wear the uniform right, then you were weird. Now that I'm out of school, I see that uniforms, when worn neatly and correctly look very posh. Pencil skirts can also look very attractive and professional. 

Anyone remember Kelly Jones from St. Trinians? 

What I wore yesterday at Toastmasters~ 15 Nov 2010

Toastmasters is so much fun! It is fun to me because it gives me a good challenge with friendly people! Last week at Toastmasters, Jose mentioned that everyone used to dress up for Toastmasters meetings. And I must admit, on a Monday night, right after work, I don't feel  like getting dressed up. So this meeting I tried making an effort. In 5 minutes, I grabbed an old blue, black and white print k-mart dress that I have worn many times before. My favorite winter boots this year from Betts. And an old jacket that I had from my time in the UK. For a limited amount of time, the outfit looked good. I am a big fan of mixing and matching tops and bottoms so that I don't have to go shopping that often~I love it!

Weekend Gone by ~ 14 Nov 2010

Getting back form holiday on Saturday was fun~but it didn't prepare me for the busy day on Sunday! 

My dad was on the yellow West Lakers team! So, naturally, as a supporter we had to wear yellow! To see all the pictures that I took you can see them on Facebook. 

As the game began, all us girls started making lots of noise!

Toastmasters Meeting~ 1 Nov 2010

Toastmasters had a meeting on Monday the 1st of November, and the theme was Melbourne Cup which was to be held on the next day! I was still not over the Halloween theme (It was just YESTERDAY!). I found a black maxi dress and wore my cape for Halloween over it! I think it was a good idea and no one else wore the same outfit as me! Now, my dad, I don't know what he was wearing, and there was no way of convincing him to change before we left. He though he looked good in that~I disagreed; I thought he looked comical. Honestly look at it! Bland tan pants, a orange polo shirt, black vest, a loud print tie topped off with a Crocodile Dundee tourist hat. Doesn't that look funny to you? (My outfit is not funny it is cool!)

Here I am with Justin and Teadora! Justin dressed up according to the Melbourne Cup theme; formal with fashion. Everything ironed and clean; even his tie was to the correct length to cover all his buttons! Teadora cam whipping in from work but still looked great in her work gear! Black pants, shimmery striped button-up top with a black jumper to match the pants!

Here is the glove I wore on my left hand for the whole day. I remember getting this pair of gloves at Primark in Leeds. I lost the right glove somewhere, along with the button on the left one that held the mitten back. So, I used 3 pins to hold the mitten part of the glove back. I was surprised to see how well it looked on my glove for a little Halloween accessory! So, if you have an odd glove round the house, I recon you can jazz it up by adding, pins, buttons or anything else that's laying around unused to make it more interesting!

Halloween Night ~ 31 Oct 2010

Halloween was now upon us! I was frantically trying to decorate the home with what I had and I went out to get more lollies! Ellen and I biked into town and then hung out at Steven's place and saw this EPIC bike! Remember Ke$ha's bike from Tick Tock?

Halloween Dress up night 30 Oct 2010

Halloween this year landed on a Sunday~perfect for the kids, go get candy and come home at a reasonable time to get up for school the next morning. For us young single folk, with no kids and are WAY to old to trick or treat, Saturday was the day for us. My evening started with some movies and make-up at my house before going out. We saw Scary Movie 3 and Rocky Horror Picture Show!

My sister got her friends to go nuts on her eyes and they were great at it! Leah just used eye shadow to create this blue cats eyes on MC. She grabbed a lighter blue to go up and over MC's eyelid, to under her brow~making her make up more dramatic and exciting!

Halloween ~ Where did it begin?

Halloween is coming soon and I must admit that I really did not know why we celebrated this holiday every year. Probably because I'm not a child dressing up anymore, this is going to be my first year giving candy instead of receiving it. So I thought maybe, I should investigate what holiday I am really celebrating. 

I heard many stories about how Halloween started; from my research, it looks like Halloween is an old Celtic celebration, and somewhat mixed with Christian celebration. The Celts celebrated the last day of October as the end of summer. They believed it was on that day, the dead would be able to come back to life. The Christian religion has a day for all dead people on the 1st November; All Saints Day. This is where we pray for all the people who have died before us. So the mixing of the two different celebrations, but both around the theme of death must've merged in together to create Halloween.

I remember hearing a story about why we give out chocolates and candy to kids. Back in the middle-ages, beggars would come to the door and beg for food in exchange for praying for the homes dead ones. The beggars were usually given sweet bread and that's how we came to this day to give out sweet things and candies to the dressed up kids!

Here are some links for further reading:

More reading on History

How it stared in Ireland

Great pranks

Whip my hair - Willow Smith

Masters Games and Hollie's Birthday

Saturday night was a busy one for me! Hollie was having her 21st Birthday again and I had to support the family by watching dad go through the Masters Games opening Parade! We had to look hard for a parking lot at 5:05, the meeting time was at 5:30 for a parade start at 6:00. But the parade started on time! Alice Springs on time that is 6:10. So there was plenty of time for me to take pictures of the wonderful outfits and get-ups teams wore! 

 I was hanging mostly with the basketball group of the parade; because that's what dad was competing in. The Polar Bears basketball team all wore pink! Pink suits, hats, noses etc! I found out that they got all their great clothing off of e-bay! 

Lunch at Oscar's

 Today, I went to lunch with my gals whom I haven't seen in absolutely ages! Sabrina wore a light blue shirt with a short high-waisted black skirt while Caitlin wore a cute tiny floral print dress with a zip up the front. Ellen had pale shorts matched with a loose flowing pastel shirt

Rowie had a groovy white print top with lace at the back. Melissa wore a great black halter neck top with 3 gold chains as the support for the shirt. I do like both styles because you can be sexy in a very casual way.