My Shopping Extravaganza

HI! Sorry for going MIA yesterday, but I didn’t get back from the States until 11pm! It was quite the adventure, let me tell you. I started my day off with a typical bowl of oats.

• 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup BRM 7 grain cereal
• cinnamon
• carob chips
• walnut pieces

My sister, Lisa, ended up having to go for an early morning interview, but we were still on the road by 9am. By 10:45 we were ready to do some damage at Target! I didn’t take photos of everything I bought, just some favourites and these earrings were definitely a fave!

Erin was kind enough to do a post on her top 5 loves at Target and one of the items was a gorgeous pair of ear rings. I did find them, but they were a little to heavy for my lobes. :( But I loved this set and as an added bonus they were on clearance for $1.98. No brainer, there! Erin also featured some great jeans and a pencil skirt. I tried both on but my voluptuous butt made for a bad fit at my waist. *sigh* Like I told my Mom, I’m done having kids so I really don’t need the porch door hips anymore! :D I did find a great cardigan sweater, though…

Another blog worthy buy was this Physicians Formula blush;

Now, this is a fabulous buy for me because this product is $20 here in Canada and just a tad over $10 in the US. And as an HUGE added bonus there was a $5 off coupon stuck to this box so really, for me, I got this at 75% off. Steal. Thank you SO much, Erin for taking the time to put a post together for me! You’re a sweetie and I really hope we can meet up again some day!! :D

We worked up a monster appetite so our next stop was Panera, naturally! I went with a 1/2 Frontega panini and a 1/2 Fuji apple salad with an apple on the side;

I ate the apple on our way home and it was one of the best tasting apples I have ever had. I really wish I knew what kind it was!

Next up was one of the malls we always go to. Mama bought me a great teal purse at JC Penny’s that I now need to forget about until Christmas morning where I will open it with a complete look of surprise on my face! Macy’s was a miss this go around, but I did find a great pair of shoes at Payless;

And Lisa was eyeing up a scarf so we used my BOGO to get it for her 1/2 price. Nice. We were seriously parched at this point so we made a beeline for the food court where large amounts of honey flavoured iced tea were consumed. Then we shopped some more and I found another cardigan sweater and a cute shirt.

These were purchased at Charlotte Russe. Kohl’s was our next stop. I love this store and SO wish we had it here in Canada. Every single item I purchased was on sale, so much so that my receipt indicated a savings of $106.00. Holy cow! I did some Christmas shopping at this store as well as buying another shirt;

And this WAY cute Christmas decoration;

The last 2 stops were Wegman’s and the outlet malls. I did a bit more Christmas shopping for my hubby there and also hit up the Lindt chocolate store. Like you wouldn’t have guessed that!!

Some brown rice sushi was bought at Wegman’s and consumed while driving to outlet mall;

And I snacked on this Lara Bar throughout the day for little bursts of energy here and there.

I didn’t photograph all the food I bought, but here is some of the more news worthy stuff, IMO! :)

See that I scored some s’mores zbars??? These were the last 5 loose ones at Wegman’s. You’ll also only see one Clif bar. Very disappointed with that. The cranberry orange nut bread was the only one I found, but when were were purchasing our sushi at the deli, I saw a big display with ALL the seasonal flavours. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time, nor did my Mom have the patience at this point, to stand in line to buy them. BOO!!!!! I’ll just have to keep my fingers crossed that they cross the border this year.

I hope you all enjoyed this post. I had fun writing it. It was nice to do up a post that didn’t focus so much on my daily eats. I may have to do this more often! I have a few more buys to show you, but I’ll include them in a post tonight that will summarize all our fun activities that are going on today. Until then….have a great Saturday!!!

Bye for now!!