four things friday (four things i'm looking forward to)

converse white blouse {thrifted target stock}
merona cardigan {thrifted target stock}
gap 1969 straight jeans
toms desert wedges

get the look:  similar white blouse / similar cardigan / exact jeans / exact wedges / similar necklace

 

you guys, i am still having so fun to answering these questions and showing you what i wear to work on fridays.  i hope you have enjoyed reading my answers and learning more about me in the process.  i think i have one more week to go after today - but today's is kind of a fun one:  four things i am looking forward to this year:

* george ezra concert:  i have been looking forward to this concert since december!  i am out of this world excited to finally see this guy live at his sold out show here next week!  earlier this year he opened up for sam smith and he's currently opening up for hozier but i feel a bit lucky because his tour stop in minneapolis is his own headlining show.  i'm sure i'll gush all about it to you guys later next week!

* baseball!  i love baseball - i love our outdoor stadium, i love picking different seats every game, i love helmet nachos, i love choosing what games i go to based on the giveaways, i love the emotional raising of the american flag by older veterans, i love it all!  the picture above are the giveaways we're getting from the games we ordered tickets to so far.  i have been dreaming about that bomber hat on the far right ever since i missed out on it last season, haha, so i bought tickets to that game right away when i saw they brought it back.  my sister and three of our friends are taking the day off work and hitting up opening day in mid-april, too, which is bound to be a fun time.

* hanson trip in may: i've mentioned many times before that my favorite band, hanson, hosts a weekend of events in their hometown of tulsa, oklahoma for their fanclub members.  i'm really looking forward to attending again this may.  it's really the one "trip" i plan a year and i always have a pretty good time.  plus, i need to stock up on my mmmhops (hanson's beer) that is only distributed around that area of the midwest. :)
 

*day trips to duluth:  i mentioned in one of these other "four things friday" posts that i love going up to northern minnesota, specifically to duluth which is a city that lies on lake superior.  at just over two hours away, it's far enough from what we call "the cities" (shortened for the "twin cities" = minneapolis & st paul/the metro area) that it feels like a refreshing break and mini-vacation whenever i go up there.  i'd like to make it a point to take more day trips through the spring/summer, especially since i have a few friends who live up there and are always up for weekend adventures!

thanks, as always, for visting!  do you have anything extra fun coming up this year that you're looking forward to?

wednesday (unpinned)

old navy sweater   ·   handmade (by me) skirt

dexter kylie wedges   ·   thrifted necklace

 

the colors in this outfit are ones i've had in mind to pair together ever since my friend whitney wore a great turquoise skirt and tan cardigan about a year ago.  this must have been before pinterest took off or i signed up for an account, otherwise i definitely would have pinned her outfit and that would have made it easier to link back to her original post.  unfortunately, all i had was a picture from her blog saved in a folder on my desktop!  i found her original post though by looking at the properties of the picture, which told me the date it was taken, and i found the post on her blog that way (wow, pinterest definitely would have made this easier!  whitney, please don't think i'm creepy--i just wanted to give you credit as my inspiration!).

 

i definitely have not jumped onto the pinterest bandwagon; my involvement and activity at this point is pretty limited although i do have a pinterest for my blog where i pin outfits of mine that i especially liked, outfits of others i like (duh), and outfits featuring items i also have in my closet for future inspiration.  no pressure to follow, seeing as how i don't pin much.  i've always been one of those people who doesn't latch onto fads or popular activities unless i felt involved or knowledgeable of it from the get-go because it seems too overwhelming to "figure it out" if i'm already well behind the curve.  so i tend to sit out of things for a while until i get to know it on my own time.  

 

pinterest & i are slowly becoming friends, but we've had some growing pains.  i've found that if i'm looking for something specific (ex: storage ideas for tall boots), all of the same pictures come up and i can never find any unique or interesting ideas.  it's a little overwhelming when so many people have pinned (repinned?) the same pin and that's all you see... i think it clogs the site and makes it more difficult to find any unique ideas/pictures/pins.  has anyone else noticed this?  i mean, there's got to be more than just the same 5 ideas on the interweb of how to store your boots!  maybe i need help learning how to better search for stuff?  or does anyone have any good ideas of how to store tall boots?  :)  thanks for visiting!