142. Thankful

 

 

 

first two images via Pinterest / third via lululemon FB page


For all the times I need reassurance and find it a phone call or a text away.
For the friends who help me in their own ways and have my back through everything.
For the family that could not be any better.
For my health, and the health of those I love.
For my happiness that continues to grow.
For the strength to get through things I don't think I can handle.
For the ability to see that the easiest choice isn't always the right one.
For all the things I forget to be thankful for.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone reading this, and I am thankful for you!

Til next time!

133. Messy

 

 cardi - Pull & Bear / shirt - Disney / pants - Smart Set / Sperry Topsiders

Messy was my weekend, so I spent a lot of time being very lazy. Messy is also my hair here, but this is one of my favourite outfits I've worn recently. Office appropriate but still fun. I love Mickey too of course.

Not much to report on that front. I'm trying to find more time in the week for everything I need to do. Studying and keeping up with my course, exercising, cooking, and hopefully finding time to bake, all while working 8-5 everyday and ignoring my mounting pile of housework. Weekends are never long enough to do everything unfortunately.

Til next time!

128. Blue's the way I roll.

So, in case you haven't heard, I live on an island. In the Atlantic Ocean. And around this time of year, we get pretty little icebergs that float on by, and make the ocean look even prettier :)

look, there's one now!

And if you really have heard of Newfoundland, you'll know those friggers are gigantic and it's never as warm as it looks in pictures. It was a warm day on Saturday, my warm being everyone else's, gee I should wear a sweater.

dress - Old Navy / scarf - from Europe07 travels / belt - joefresh / flats - random Portuguese store / sunglasses - new, prescription! / jacket - Mavi

In honour of Mr. Berg, I wore a dress and tried to match the colors around me. I actually didn't, which is the sad part, but I'm all blue in front of the ocean and the blue sky with the ice-blue and white berg there above me. It's seasonal, anyways.

So where have I been lately? I'm still wearing clothes, and work appropriate clothes even. I'm attributing my absense to the fact that I'm into yoga more than blogging now. I prefer to go to yoga after work, or after supper after work, than to come home and take pictures of what I've been wearing. It's not necessarily a bad thing, since I quite love it, but I used to like blogging too. I feel like I'm a in a funk now. Maybe it's because I know my family and friends know about it, and it's no longer a big deal. It's still important to me, I think. And I think people are still reading. Are you still out there, dear friends? I'm sorry if I've let you down, but I promise I'll try to be better.

Not a whole lot has happened since last week. Three works of work done, I got paid, I make several banana breads with new beautiful mixer and fell more in love with it, and found out I still can't be on time for work. I work farther away, and I have to park in a giant parking garage, but I still fail on that side of things. I can't even think of what else I've done.

What else do I have coming up? I can't think of that either! But right now I have sleep, it's almost 10pm! A girl needs her beauty sleep!

Til next time!

127. Birthday gifts.

As I'm technically on vacation, since today is a holiday in Canada, this is going to be a short post! I have meant to post my outfits many times since I started work, the one I wore last Wednesday in particular since it was my birthday! I had three outfit changes though, so it wasn't such an easy task. I wore awesome red pants for work, a beautiful lace dress for supper, and then changed back into my yoga pants for a good class. Long but good day.

So in lieu of birthday outfits, here's my birthday presents! One is from the parents, one from the boyfriend. Want to guess which is which? I'll tell you anyways. The mixer is from my wonderful boyfriend, to replace the broken one he tried to give me at Christmas. I'm planning on doing some a lot of baking in the next week to try it out. First up is cupcakes, I think.

And from my parents? Along with bringing me to Florida in a couple of weeks, I finally got a new leather jacket! I say new, though I've never owned one so technically it's my first. I love the style and color, and you'll definitely be seeing this in rotation soon! To those of you living in locations with actual seasons, yes it is still cool enough to wear a leather jacket here. Such is Newfoundland and my life, but I love it nonetheless.

So with that said, I'm off to finish packing up! Have to head back to town today for work tomorrow. I completely want more time here but weekends will have to do for now. To all Canadian readers, I hope you've had a wonderful May 2-4, and to everyone else I hope your week is off to a wonderful start!

Til next time!

Day 104: Studio Tour

Unfortunately, Days 97 through 103 didn't consist of many interesting activities. Because we arrived so late towards the end of midterm break, there was lots of studying to be done. Accounting for some, and one other international business course for me. I don't like studying all that much, but it had to be done. We had two written projects due before we left and another on the Monday after we got home, as well as studying for our exchange course. It was busy but we had planned a certain outing before going to Harlow.

If you don't like Harry Potter, you're probably better off quitting now :P

The Harry Potter Studio Tour at Warner Brothers Leavesden studio opened up at the beginning of April. The tour was created in a former soundstage of WB Studios. It had many former sets recreated, mostly the originals! And lots of props that were actually used in the movies. I took about a million pictures, but I figured I'd keep to just my favourite portions of the tour.

The tour was self-guided, but I chose to get the audio guide as well. It was well worth it to hear the explanations about the different sets and see commentary from the directors, producers, and other heads of departments of the films. Since I'm a giant HP nerd, it was basically the best thing ever.

entrance!

cupboard under the stairs :)

the doors to the great hall

 

costumes from the last movie

the Gryffindor dormitory

 left: the mirror of erised / right: the common room

Dumbledore's office

Hagrid's hut

the Burrow

knight bus!

me in front of Privet Drive

Godric's Hollow

 left: Dobby! / right: Diagon Alley. So cool.

the Hogwarts model, and me in front of it below.

wand room

<3

And such was another night in Harlow! It took me about 3 hours to get through the tour, and I could have spent even more time there. Such a good way to nearly end the term.

One more post to clue up my time abroad!

Til next time!

Day 84: Update

Here's my last post for a couple weeks folks! I'm off on midterm break! With the exchange course I'm doing here in the UK, the regular semester break dates that coincide with the North American schedule didn't work out. It was decided that we'd go along with the other university's break, which works out even better!

I'm off to Italy and Spain until the 11th of April!

first stop, Venice!

Too excited about this, and there's so much stuff I'm going to see. I've been to most of the cities we're going to, with the exception of Barcelona, but I'm just as happy to be going back again. I'm going to eat as much gelato as I can stuff into my face.

So, on that note, I hope you all have a happy Easter break or spring break or whatever reason you have to get a couple of days off! More posts on everything I've seen during these two weeks when I return, and the countdown to returning back to NL will begin!

Til next time!

121. I'm forgetful

I'm a very bad blogger. Being in Europe has swept me away and made me forget about things like wearing stylish outfits and taking too many pictures of myself and my clothes. All I think about is traveling and where I'm going to go next. It's almost as if I have a life. So what could this forgetfulness lead to?

Oh yes, of course, I've been blogging for a full year! My Day 23 update on Harlow, done on January 29/12, should have been bigger and better and well, more of everything really, because it marked exactly one year since I started my blog! Big deal for me people, I tend to give up on things. It's only about 2 months since I told anyone and I still haven't broadcast it to the world. Not the blogging world, but real life and the people I know and interact with. I tried writing this post earlier in the month, to have it closer to the 1 year date, but since this is a leap-year after all why not Feb 29?

In honour of the anniversary, I've picked out a few of my favourite posts and some of my favourite outfits I've worn in the past year. It's not completely comprehensive, but these are a few that stand out. 

My First post was a recipe, since I didn't want to take pictures of myself yet and I knew that was a good way to start :) Though they're messy and take far too long, these cookies were and still are one of my favourites. I wish I could bake over here!

I would have posted my first outfit post here, but the image is mysteriously not there and I don't think I have it saved anywhere. Odd, how Blogger does that. Here's the first post where I actually really liked my outfit.

Here's a link to my first non-cropped post! This was my first attempt at outfit self photography. I hadn't mastered the outfit photo thing yet so it's not the best. But my hair, it's so long and pretty. Severe missing-my-long-hair syndrome happening, did I mention that part?

That's all the meaningful ones I found, I think. Here's a few more of my favourites, hope you all agree with them! And on this momentous occasion, I really just want to say thank you to the people who have read my ramblings for the past year! It really means alot knowing that even though I've changed what I do and how I do it for now, I still have followers who drop by and say hi. I'll be back to regularly scheduled outfit programming when I return in the summer, but for now European travel blog it is.

 

 

 

Kind of surprised I have this many I like to be honest. I even cut a few out! Oh what blogging will do for your wardrobe...

Thanks for a wonderful year everyone! 

Til next time!