How's everyone's weekend? Mine was busy. Squirt wasn't feeling too well, but I had to do some last minute shopping for my family, so we were at the mall for an hour.
I got my sister a Fruits & Passion massage oil in Grapefruit - Guava for 40% off (the coupon is in my Weekly flyer deals post, still good until the end of the month). The little booklet in the picture is their Holiday catalogue.
I'm always a big fan of guava, both the fruit and how it smells. Adding grape fruit, itt smells so good. I was looking for a gift set with this scent (as gift sets are always of better value) but they didn't have any.
Urban Behaviour was having F&F, 50% off regular prices. I got 2 scarves, CAD5 each, really like the colours. They were the last one in their styles in store when I found them. Also found the very cute gold necklace with a golden flower, some pearl-like beads, for CAD6.50.
If you are looking for some cheap buys, the F&F sale is still going on until the end of the day tomorrow.
We ended the trip with a quick dinner at Salvatore, one of the best pizza places in town. They were celebrating the 15th anniversary, so the prices were brought back to 1994's ($3 less for pizzas and $1 less for almost everything else). I loved the idea :-)
Their pizzas had some intersting topping options I hadn't seen anywhere else. It was my first time there, so I was a bit adventurous. We got 2 specialty pizzas - the Clam Pie Marinato (which was full of chopped baby clams, basil and garlic, with cornmeal on the edge), and the Pizza Miguel (garlic, onion, mushroom). We found the garlic was a bit too much, and toppings were very generous. The bf said maybe less would be more in this case :-) I liked the food, but maybe next time we went for the originals, so we could pick our own toppings.
I spent some time getting the stuff I bought to bring home ready for packing. I'm a pack rat, buying stuff and put them somewhere then couldn't remember where when I needed it. It was frustrating, lol, and packing didn't go so well for that reason. Squirt still has a temperature, don't know whether I'll have to stay home tomorrow. So much to do, so little time!
I received a few sale notifications in my mail box, thought I should share in case some of you want to do some shopping this weekend.
- Makeup Mix Shop: 15% off store wide (except elf products). Sale ends July 26 at midnight. Free shipping US/Canada with orders $20 and over.
Time to check out EcoTools, NYX, Jesse's Girl, Kleancolor, LA Colors :-) There are accessories too.
- Coastal Scents: 15% all brushes. Sale ends July 26 at midnight. No code needed.
I only shopped at Coastal Scentsonce for 2 of the 88-shadow palettes (1 matte/satin, 1 shimmer), and shipping cost sucked (about $14). I caved in for these palettes as so many people raved about it, but with the high shipping cost, I wouldn't come back there any time soon. Shipping in the US is free with orders of $50 or more though. Lucky Americans!
- Aromaleigh: 50% off Days are on, starting July 21 for a week. Each day, a certain product will be offered at half price and announced on Miss K's blog.
I had bought a sample set from Aromaleigh before to test out. The shadows applied really smooth and the colours stayed all day. The only rant I have is again(international) shipping cost, as it would cost at least $5 to ship, even when you only order samples which fit in a small envelope. If Aromaleigh could break the cost down to different levels of order amounts, that'd push me toward ordering more for sure.
Don't forget to check out the Coupon & Deal section for some savings.
- MAC: Free Canadian Express Shipping on any purchase until July 27 at midnight. No code needed.
- Glamour Doll Eyes: Individual full-sized eyeshadows (not sets/ collections) are 50% off with purchase of $40 or more. The jars are now $4 each (regular $8). Use code "customer" at check out. Sale expires on July 29.
If you need a side purchase to make it to $40, the blushes are 33% off ($8 each instead of $12 regular) at the moment. Price already includes the discount.
- Spa Boutique: 
The Canada-exclusive Jane Iredale Sweet 15 Kit - Limited Edition (valued CAD369) is offered at CAD89. It comes with 15 shadows, 3 blushes and 3 lip plumpers.
As this is a Canadian site, shipping is free with any Canadian order CAD75 and over, so it's free shipping for this kit (but you'll have to pay GST). For US, shipping is $15 for orders under CAD150, and free for over CAD150. Not so lucky Americans in this case, lol. That's Canada Post pricing for you!
I don't know much about Jane Iredale brand except for its high price tag, but the kit looks decent at that price. Are there any Jane Iredale fans out there?
- Fruit & Passion: 
Hand wash/soap refills are CAD19.95 (regular CAD28-30). Free foaming handsoap (valued CAD12) with purchase of any 2 hand soap refills.
In the picture is the new Fruity Foaming hand soap refill in Grapefruit-Guava. Doesn't it look good enough to eat? Other 2 scents are Field Berries and Orange-Cantaloup, and that is just 1 kind of hand soap. I like the idea of refills, less packaging, more eco friendly. These bottles are 1 liter, would last you a while.
Since my first experience with Fruit & Passion, I love to step in to sniff around in the store every time I come to Micmac. It smells like fruits in there, not too overwhelming like a Lush store.
Tired of reading yet :-) Shopping or not this weekend, hope you all have a good time.
Photo credit: Spaboutique.ca and ca.fruits-passion.com
It has been a really busy weekend, but I am so excited of a few finds that I can't wait to blog about.
Saturday was such a long day. All of a sudden, there were so many things going on and I didn't want to skip anything :-) We started out at Old Navy as it was $3 graphic Ts day, plus I was able to snag a $10 coupon off $50 purchase off their Old Navy Weekly website. 
There had been some great coupons, like $75 off $100 purchase, etc. but those were gone way too fast, as you can imagine. There were only adults' Ts that were on for $3, so I grabbed 5 for me first. It wasn't easy to find my size in the pile, but it was probably a good thing, as there was a limit of 5 per person. It'd be hard to decide what not to get if I could have more options. It was also the day of extra 50% off on discounted items, so I could get some great clothes and shoes for Squirt. I made it to $50 and got $10 off. So awesome. I like Old Navy!!!
I got a free ticket to go to Family Expo, and it was free for Squirt to go, so I decided to drop by. It wasn't very good last year, but I had my hope up as this is their 5th year celebration. But no, it wasn't any better. Squirt got a few balloons, and a poster of "Night in the Museum" from the exhibitors, and we sat down to watch a few performance on stage. Too bad they couldn't get the event back to where it was 2 years ago. I really enjoyed it the first time I went.
We rushed back to Empire Theatre where Squirt had her birthday party. We waited till this week to have the party so that the kids could see UP. It was a good time but I was exhausted having to watch 7 kids for 4 hours. I'm not used to the running around screaming act of the boys Squirt invited, not mentioning the bathroom trips that they pulled in the middle of the movie. I even missed the last 20 minutes of the show as one of the girls didn't feel well and wanted to go out to the lobby. It sucked, but all in all, Squirt got some presents that she really wanted (i.e. the Cupcake maker and a few Barbies, etc.), so she was very happy. I was glad the party went well. I spent the rest of the day resting with a nice meal and a beer (Keith's Red, if you want to know - it's a Canadian brand), haha...
Sunday, I woke up with really nice weather, 20 degrees. Unbelievable, considering it was just about 11 yesterday. It's probably unheard of, but here where I live, Sunday shopping isn't very popular. Not until recently (I guess probably about a year ago) that shops started to open on Sundays, and only from noon to 5pm. I wasn't very happy with the limitted hours, but had to deal with it. This was the reason why I normally sleep in on Sundays :-). We went to Globo Shoes, as they had some sales on, but didn't end up getting anything.
Icing was just across the street, so I came in to browse around. I love their clearance section, as sometimes some nail polishes and other cool items for some reason landed there with really cheap price (like 5 for CAD10 if the original price is less than CAD15, or CAD5 otherwise). This earrings and headband holder was original on for CAD23 and I got it for CAD5. 
I already bought 2 earring holders and a necklace holder from Claire's but because of their crazy sale (10 for CAD10) that they had once in a while, my earring collection grew quite big. So this 3rd holder would come in handy perfectly. I wish they sell polish racks too, as I really need one to organize my bottles. As you see in my previous post, the polish collection was overflowing as well.
As I was complaining to Recessionista at Nouveau Cheap a few weeks ago about shipping cost from the US to Canada for some beauty items I wanted to purchase, she mentioned that she had to probably pay the same crazy amount if she got some of her favorite items from Canada. And she mentioned Fruits & Passion. I have a F&P store where I live but honestly never shopped there. She got me curious about the brand, so I went and purchase this Fragrance kit for CAD38, as a gift for my sister. 
I had second thought a few days later, considering the small size of the samples (2ml each) and how much I had to pay for them (approx. CAD10, as the full size bottle I could claim with the gift card attached to the kit was between CAD28-30). So I brought it back. The nice thing was they let me keep the free GWP. It was a Foot Care Duo of a Cooling Cream Gel and a Foaming Exfoliant in the picture. Wasn't it exciting? I was impressed with Customer Service and would definitely be back when they have some nice sale on.
Another exciting news. Superstore was having the newly displayed HIP product line on for half price. I wasn't sure whether it didn't sell very well or they just wanted to promote it with a big sale. I certainly couldn't miss this deal. 
The display was almost empty at the time, so I only got 2 Jelly balms (I think Canada stores only got these 2 shades anyway, sucky I know) and the eyeliner in Eggplant. I wanted Teal as well but they didn't have any left. I previously got some $2 coupons from the display at Shoppers, so I only paid CAD3 for each Jelly balm and CAD4.50 for the liner. Believe me when I said this was a great deal. I don't know whether you know, but Canada does not have BOGO deals on cosmetics that often (if not very rarely) like the US, so when something was on sale for 50% plus a few coupons to use, I was more than excited. And I have been waiting to try out the rest of HIP products (I only owned the shadow duos which were the only thing from this line available to us, Canadians until recently), so this worked out great in my favour.
Also at Superstore, I found certain shades of Sally Hansen's polish on for CAD1, so 
I grabbed 3, showned in the first row in the picture. The 4th shade was too light to show up on my nails, so I left it alone, haha... I don't know what's going on with this line, as a few weeks back, I only got a few of them at Lawton on clearance for CAD1.80 each (showned in the second row). I wouldn't complain, but hope they didn't cancel the line or anything like that. The extra lip gloss in the picture was Hannah Montana's, for Squirt, on clearannce for like CAD3.
So that was it for this weekend runs. Sorry for the long post. And if there're any Canadians out there reading my blog, hope you can find these great products at great price like I did. Thanks for stoppy by.