Matilda Jane Trunk Show

I went to session today. During my retail therapy session today I slapped on my latex gloves to go digging in the Goodwill Outlet bins and found just a bag full for the school and a bag full of pottery for myself. I'll air my finds later today on my youtube channel.

But the highlight of my day was attending the Matilda Jane trunk show at a friends house. My friend, Elyse, has three lovely little girls who have a funkalicious wardrobe that I adore. Most of the Matilda Jane fashions are geared towards little girls but there's a fun adult line too. C'mon, moms have to be cute too...and so do their friends! Elyse knows my taste well, so of course she let me know when she was going to have such a shindig. After oohing and ahhing over all of the pieces I narrowed it down to two things. For my more practical everyday side I chose the Lindey capris. Then I chose the Cher dress for work and the occasional social gathering. I might have to break out the ivory cowboy boots on this dress! How I love Matilda Jane.

Goodwill Outlet Song and Dance

Tomorrow I venture to the Goodwill Outlet where I let out (or out let, ha) all of my frustrations and start diving into loads of junk to take home with me. Trust, I will have a video up if I have good finds. Til tomorrow. Ready, set, gloves those hands!

Pictured above...the awesome Ray-Bans that I actually have not used yet. Oh, and they're totally real...case and all.

Cebu Day 1

I thought we left all of the crazy traffic and crazy MarioKart driving back in Manila. Wrong! It is here in Cebu too. I am assuming that is just the way it is here in the PI. No one stays in their lanes, signals are almost non existent, and horns are abundant. I am telling you, MARIO KART with humans and real cars...with us in them!

Ok, Cebu is gorgeous. How did we end up in Cebu? Long story short, the plans we had to Boracay were never really made, pair that with Chinese New Year and vacation season (we knew NONE of this) made the plans veer to Cebu. Cebu is located in Visayas, just 400 miles or so south of Manila. It is a lot cleaner than Manila and very touristy. It almost looks like the east's Caribbean because of the many people that visit for recreation, resorts and beaches.

We arrived last night around 10:30 and had a few drinks at the bar and a midnight dinner. Then off to bed we went. The suites here are totes awesome.

We started off today by having a very nice breakfast in a partial indoor outdoor restaurant here at the Hilton Cebu Resort and Spa. Then we made it out to the private beach area where the sun seemed as if it were only a mile away. It was so hot and I swear I was turning into dinner. I was definitely cooking. Paul stayed at the pool. He was pretty sure we would last a second on the beach because of the heat. He was right.

Pooltime! The pool area is very nice and we hung out here the most. Bud and Michael joined us a little later and caught some rays as well. Joyce was dark in about 5 minutes, I turned pink, Paul tanned a bit, Bud was pretty tan in 10 minutes and Michael luckily did not have much change. He was careful after that horse ride when he turned into a lobster.

After the pool we took 2 taxis to SM Mall in Cebu City. Nice, but something we have seen many times before. We finished up our souvenir shopping and t-shirt shopping here. We also grabbed some lunch too.

The evening was wrapped up with tapas, happy hour on the water and a more time at the bar in the "pink lobby". Night all. I need to book a room in Manila now for our last night's in the PI.

Hella Haul at the Goodwill Outlet

64 East Leads to 2 Places

It does.  VA Beach and Williamsburg.  Well, after you skip the city and my second home of M'ville.  Our Ivey excursion consisted of visiting an ol favorite: PRIME OUTLETS.  With the opening of the new Juicy and Burberry stores my mind was made up.  I went during grand opening weekend.  Grand opening of the so-called "new part" that is.  Michael Kors and the Polo Outlet are already reason enough to visit this little town of settlement but now, they've added more for the ambitious lux deal shopper.  My husband doesn't make it any better.  While I've already planned to burn a hole in my pocket that day he had to add the infamous Pottery to our trip.  We needed to find something for the house.  We always have to find something for the house.  Then...because we are "sell designer stuff on ebay" fanatics we set out to find great deals in other unmentionable places.  ( I am not giving my secrets away...are you crazy?)  

Did I mention it was storming and tornado-ing in central VA on this day of shopping excursion? Oh yeah, but without an umbrella in hand it only made the day more fun.  The drive home was one of those drives where it's raining SO hard that you can't see the road.  And I drove.  In my car.  My car hates bad weather.  It was only made to enjoy sunny weather.   

I survived.  I made it to work on Monday morning without a scratch on my body.