DAY 1: Picture+Facts

Day 1: Post a recent picture of yourself and 5 random facts

A couple of weekends ago, I had my makeup done during Westfield Chermside's Fashion Festival. When I got home, I couldn't help but take a douche bag selfie... Couldn't waste the makeup ;)

And five random facts about myself are:

1. I'm a March born Piscean, who swam competitively for more than 2/3rds of her life. I threw myself into the deep end of a pool when I was little more than 2 years old and came up squealing in delight. I was literally a water baby!

2. Both of my little fingers are crooked and look like they've been broken, but in reality they haven't been and that is just the way they are...

3. I've been a blonde, brunette and redhead and can say with absolute certainty that it's true, Blondes do have more fun!!

4. My Happy Gilmore "Happy Place" is Yamba, on the Northern New South Wales coast. We holidayed there every September school holidays from the time I was 11. My parents still go yearly, but I haven't been in a few years. I'm heading down with them in a couple of weeks and I cannot wait!!

5. If I was loaded and could do anything with my life, with no cares in the world about making ends meet, I would design my own swimsuit line. That or have a cake business... They kind of don't go together very well do they ;)

I'd love it if you shared 5 Random Facts About Yourself in the comments section below!

xx love Breanna

Roberto Cavalli for Target

This morning I decided to head over to my local Target and check out the latest "Designer for Target" collaboration. I've always liked these collaborations, and while some of the collections have been a bit hit and miss, I have at least one piece from almost all of them.

Looking through the lookbook, I was a bit concerned that the dresses would be too short for me. Admittedly they were being modelled by Karolina Kurkova who is 5"11 and has legs for miles, but they looked very short on her. Being an inch taller than her, I was worried.

Once I got there though, I was pleasantly surprised that there was a little more length in them than I was expecting. Even the maxi dress I was lusting after was long enough, just (well if I just wear flats...). And I can NEVER buy a maxi dress long enough! 

I ended up buying three pieces from this collection.

This maxi dress: 

This dress:

And this one piece:

I'm very happy with my purchases and cannot wait to wear them all :)

xx love Breanna

A new 30 day blog challenge...

Because I've been so slack, and haven't blogged as often as I should (or would like to) I've decided to have another crack at a 30 day blog challenge... Now we all know that I usually fail at these, but I am going to try REALLY hard to actually finish this one!!

It's actually a tumblr challenge that's been going around, but I don't really use my tumblr that much and I want to blog more, so I'm going to blog it here instead :)

So here is the list of blog posts:

Let's see how I go ;)

xx love Breanna

NBA 2012/2013

In less than 12 hours the 2012/2013 NBA Season tips-off...

I am so excited!

NRL Season has always been my favourite season... But the NBA season is catching up, fast!

Miami start their Championship defence tomorrow at 11am Brisbane time. Prior to tip-off they get to celebrate their Championship by having their ring and banner raising ceremony.

I can't wait for the season to get underway! You can look forward to many more posts regarding Miami and their progress for the next six, or so, months!! Haha.

xx love Breanna

Travel Snap Tuesday: Whistler

In January of this year, I was lucky enough to visit Whistler for the second time. After first visiting for a few days in late 2007/early 2008, D and her hubby, AB and her hubby and I spent a week there.

I LOVE Whistler!

Here are some photos that D and I took during our time there :)

 The Olympic Rings in the Village were a new addition since

my first visit to Whistler in 2007/2008.

This is a shot I took whilst we were walking through

Whistler Village.

If you haven't eaten Ice Cream in the snow, you're just not cool...! 

 Jumping in the snow, in ugg boots... Really smart!

Especially when I had already hurt my wrist ;)

On our final day, D and I went to the top of Whistler Peak and

skied the Peak-2-Creek run. This was the awesome visibility we were

greeted with...

xx love Breanna

Travel Snap Tuesday is the brainchild of Little Miss Moi and is about sharing a moment in time through a photo (or three). 

Polo

On Sunday, Sian and I, along with some of the other girls from Siany's work, went to the Jeep Australian Open Polo event that was held at Doomben.

I had the hardest time deciding what to wear. The extent of my polo knowledge was whatever is said in the media about polo when the Royals are involved, and that one episode of Gossip Girl that they went to a polo match in...

Basically, it's less dressy than the races (ie. no racing headwear/fascinators etc) but still kind of dressy... I also knew you had to wear flats or wedges so you could partake in the half time tradition of "stomping the divots". Which is exactly what it sounds like!

I ended up going for a trusty Wayne by Wayne Cooper dress, that is always an easy go to dress. I paired that with a pair of Tony Bianco wedges, pulled my hair into a high pony tail and curled it and finished my look off with a pink lip (Revlon Lip Butter in Lollipop) and my Tiffany's sunglasses.

 Full length photo of my outfit.

A close up I took, before deciding to go with the Wayne Cooper dress.

Siany and I on the field during the "Stomping of the Divots" at half time.

xx love Breanna

Siany's 30th!!

Two weekends ago we celebrated my gorgeous friend Sian's 30th birthday!

It was such a fun night. There was 4 or 5 of us still sitting around drinking and talking at 4:30am!!!

My dress is Armani Exchange, and I wore Wayne by Wayne Cooper heels. Here are some shots from the night:

The birthday girl and I

Close up!

Sian, her hubby Matt, me and Vonnie

The girls and I - Siany, Donna and Andrea

Mel & I! (Mel came up from Sydney for the weekend!)

I also made the cake for the party!

I spent 15 hours, over Friday and Saturday, baking, icing and decorating a three-tier cake for her party. Siany's only instructions were "it has to be pink" and "if you could do a rainbow cake that would be awesome" which lets be honest, anyone who knows Siany, would know the cake had to be pink. I decided to do a pink gradient cake, instead of a rainbow cake because i thought the rainbow might be a bit much with an entire cake with pink icing.

The top and bottom tiers were gradient, while the middle tier was chocolate!

This is Siany and her cake before she cut it!

This is Sian and I with the cake after she cut it :)

It was such a fun night!! Happy Dirty Thirty, Siany!!!

xx love Breanna

Travel Snap Tuesday: LA

The next destination in my US themed Travel Snap Tuesday is LA.

I spent one night in LA during my road trip (for a HEAT game) then spent a week there before heading off to Vegas. I also returned to LA a few weeks later with my friend D and her hubby T for a few days before our other friends A and D joined us!

I picked a few shots to share with you including two shots - inside and out - of the Staples Center (where the HEAT played):

D, T & I went shopping at The Grove one day and saw Mario Lopez filming Extra. I LOVE Mario Lopez from his days on Saved By The Bell!! I might go so far as to say that this was my favourite celeb sighting of my entire six month adventure!!

This was our last day in LA. Which we chose to spend in Santa Monica! This photo was taken from the pier looking back to shore.

D, T & I spent a day at Disneyland, but I think that deserves it's own TST post which I will get to eventually!!

xx love Breanna

Travel Snap Tuesday is the brainchild of Little Miss Moi and is about sharing a moment in time through a photo (or three).