Saturday, July 28, 2012

About Us

Ok so I guess its time we did a little introduction of ourselves!!
Our names are Emily and Kristoffer and we live in beautiful Port Macquarie.  We rent a little house at the moment and think we will buy our first house next year.  So, living in a rental means NO renovation experience.  But hey, that didn't stop Polly and Waz or Soph and Dale!!  Our drive and confidence is enough for us to do well on The Block.
We both work in retail, I (Em) manage a workwear store and Kris works in a fishing tackle/marine store.  We both have high hopes of not working in retail forever!!  I'm hoping that by being on The Block some more doors will open.  I am originally from a tiny town called Batlow which is near Wagga Wagga.  Kris is from Taree, so we live close to where he grew up.  We met each other in Wagga where we both worked for a major camping/fishing store.  As you can tell from our professions we are very outdoorsy (is that even a word??), down to earth and share similar life standards and passions.
I can't say that I love something like Kris loves fishing!!  At the moment he is sitting at #2 on the bream angler tournament ladder, this changes often and he has been at #1 at times too..  I don't think he has been out of the top 5 since we've known each other.

I'm devoting so much of my time into our Block campaign, I guess you could say I love The Block as much as Kris loves fishing.  Even though being on The Block would be the experience of a lifetime, Kris would be having fishing withdrawals the whole time!!  We would both miss our dog very much too, we have a Kelpie called Heidi and she is the most spoilt dog in Australia.  However she is spoilt even more so by Kris' mum so we know she wouldn't miss us too much.



So there we go, I hope that this has given you all a good insight into our lives, let's all just face it, WE WOULD ROCK THE BLOCK!


Thursday, July 26, 2012

Fifty Shades of Grey

Hated the book, LOVE the colour!!



Look in my wardrobe and what do you see??  Grey and black (no white, I'm too messy).

As a interior decor colour I think grey can be amazingly warming and inviting.  Grey sums up our entire design concept its sleek, paired with basic colours (white, black) and modern.  I would just have to have grey as a central theme through our block house.  Our designs will be timeless, you wont be looking at them in 10 or even 5 years and saying 'yuck'.

When I saw this, I laughed!!
Grey Obsessions
What does every else think of grey??  Do you love it too??

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Our Audition Plans

We're going to be making our audition video fairly closely to the cut off date. This is because I want to have an established Blog, Twitter and Instagram first.  Then we can refer to these in our audition process and add the links to the video, for that extra little insight into our (insert sarcastic voice here), fantastically exciting, insipiring lives..

How great is this vintage camera??
In all seriousness deciding on what is going to be in the audition video has been sending me crazy!!  I've looked at what some of the last contestants put in their videos..
I've told Kris that it looks like we'll just have to dance in our audition video..that didn't go down so well :) a jib jab video is as close as we'll get to that!!  Or I told him I was going to start secretely filming him so I can capture the moment when he busts out in a dance haha..
We're definitely not conservative and boring, I think we can be quite funny and we bounce off each other really well.  We'll certainly make good telly and to renovate a house while we're at it would be amazeballs!!


Who has ideas for our audition video??

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Introducing Our Style

I'd like to think that we have (compared to previous Block contestants) a little bit of every ones fantastic style.. A little bit quirky but refined, simple and practical.

Something that I loved in 2011's The Block was Josh & Jenna's pallot bed (see more of their stuff here). I grew up making pallots and apple bins for my dads business, so it was great to see them used in a different way!!  I've compiled a little collection of excellent ideas for pallots and would love to utilise the myself.  Using an item for something that it wasn't originally designed for is so creative and I really enjoy scouring Pinterest for inspiration. 


All of these ideas have come off pinterest, let me know what you think, or if you have an even better idea!!



Monday, July 23, 2012

The Block 2013

So basically we want to be on The Block in 2013.  I am hoping to create a social media following in order to encourage Channel 9 that we were born to be on the show!!


I (Emily) have watched EVERY season and have dreamt of going on the show since the first season.  It's a difference experience now than what it used to be..even better.  You have to invest so much of your life into the show and we would be perfect.

We will make our audition video as soon as our social media following takes off.  My plan is to get everyone to fall in love with us, to get the topic trending on Twitter and inspire people to BEG Channel 9 to have us on the show.

So subscribe away and hopefully we can inspire everyone to want us on The Block 2013