Road Trippin'

Saturday's solo road trip to Grand Forks, North Dakota was glorious. I can't even begin to explain my love affair with road trips of any kind. I live for driving, it makes me feel complete freedom! I ditch the watch, crank up the radio, belt out songs off-key, drink lots of coffee and take it all in. When I was single and worked for WestJet, I would often take off solo to Vancouver, rent a car and road trip it to Seattle for a few days. Now, I'd rather hang out with my J but a little taste of that 'me time' was just what I needed!

The whole purpose of the trip was to pick up these....J's and his best man's special turquoise Converse All-Stars for the wedding! I couldn't get them shipped to Canada but I could pick them up at a Sears in the US so I figured, why not tie in a little shopping?

For those of you who don't know, I live in Winnipeg. It's about an hour north of the US border so a trip Grand Forks is just over two hours. Grand Forks was lovely but not really a shopping mecca - unless you happen to LOVE discount department stores like Target, Kohls, TJ Maxx and JC Penney to name a few...let's just say I just about exploded in Target from all the cheap awesomeness! From the clothes to the accessories to the shoes to the make-up...because it's all new right? It's not the same things I see in the local shops every time I go.

In order to avoid overspending, I made a rule that I had to absolutely LOVE what I was buying (or it had to be dirt cheap and I liked it a lot - ha ha!). So I only picked up a few things, but they're goodies! Plus I found the absolute perfect hat for J to wear to the wedding - I took a chance buying it but would you believe I got it for only $7.99?? He loves it, so my instincts were right! Here's my dapper man...

I also found these adorable cream peep toe flats from Target...

I know, I know, I already bought wedding shoes. But they're paper thin and would never hold up to a night of dancing, plus the peep toes give them a little extra elegance - don't you think?

Some pretty nail polish from Essie in the softest of pastels...

A daintly floral print top from Kohl's (I love finding pretty T-shirts to wear in the summer!)...

A fabulous light and airy summer dress from Target in shades of blue watercolour prints and a super cute lightweight top from TJ Maxx - that I'll share in my next Style Peek!

Do you have great shopping where you are or do you have to travel to score on style?

ps: My shower yesterday was so lovely and I'm going through all my photos to prepare some posts to share all the details with you!!