Decided to stop by the T&T Market in Ottawa because I've been craving some Japanese snacks.
I tried to find some Japanese snacks online, but shipping charges are pretty expensive, so I chanced my luck with T&T - and they had pretty much everything I was looking for. Pocky, and other treats.
The prices were pretty good there as well, way more cheaper than if I was to buy online + shipping fee's. In total I spent 68$ - there's a few more other things I purchased but I didn't include them in this blog haul because they were little sandwhich's that were already eaten by my daughter and fiance' by the time we made it home lol

I love Pocky, so I was excited to see that they released the almond crush at T&T - These ones are bit more expensive than your regular Pocky though, which was 5.49$ for three packs of 4 = 12 sticks. It's still a great price, for a unique treat.

I've been dying to get my hands on these. There called "Collon" by Glico. There's several other flavors but this one is called "Ice Cream Float Soda" - It's a wafer wrapped in a ice cream soda flavor. These things are loaded with sugar, so I could only have a few - but the taste is pretty unique, and it does taste pretty good, but I wouldn't suggest you eat these everyday lol

I'm a huge fan of Kracie "Poppin Cookin" DIY treat kits so I picked up the "Ice Cream Parlor" kit. I paid 5.99$ for this one. This one is selling for 6.99$-9.99$ online, which is pretty steep, so I'm glad I went to T&T before purchasing online. This kit is relatively easy. Mix some water with the sugar, and your done, you can than decorate the little cones are wafers. Fun stuff!!

Meiji is a pretty popular treat distributor In Japan. These are a "knock-off" from Pocky. - but I must say there yummy - there also much thicker than your regular Pocky, and there more crunchier. I definately enjoy these better than your traditional Pocky.

Caplico is another well known brand in Japan. This treat is called "Sweet Sand" - The center tastes like an aero bubble bar with chocolate and green tea, and on top is a green tea  wafer. Its delicious, and worth those extra calories lol.

Pocky just released a new flavor. Pocky Midi Taro Potatoe. These are sooo cute, and very yummy. The first bite my set your taste buds off a bit, but by the time it settles on your tongue the flavors start to settle. It's a very unique tasting treat.

Rose Petals are amazing for your digestive system. It also helps rid of bacteria's in your body.
These Rose petal drinks have an amazing aromatic scent to them, and they taste amazing. These are small cans, but well worth 2.49$ that I spent on each.

WARNING - Do not buy these unless you like very very hot wasabi. I didn't know that these would be that hot, but these are extremely hot. Not only are they hot but they taste disgusting. Ughhhh - bad idea purchasing these.

I'm a huge fan of Meiji's Melty Kiss and Melty Whips. The texture in these just melt in your mouth and the different flavors are exciting. I purchased Melty Kiss Soya Bean and Melty Kss regular Winter.

The melty kisses are individually wrapped and tiny little packs. My favorite is the Soya bean. I do wish they were a bit bigger but there's at least 16 pieces so that's ok. Each box was 4.99$ kind of steep. - These taste a bit like ZERO melts that you can by in dollar stores.

Strawberry Corn puffs are another one of my favorites that I purchase regularly from T&T. There's 230 Calories per bag, and they taste like strawberries plus the packaging is adorable. I paid 1.99$ for one bag.

Last purchase was these cute Pocky heart shaped strawberry sticks. The biscuit is shaped like a heart. I think these were released just in time for Valentines Day, which is pretty neat. They taste like your regular strawberry pocky sticks.


Overall I spent about 68$ CDN with Taxes (excluding a few other things I purchased that's not in this haul)
It's always fun trying new foreign treats to try out, especially at really good prices.

xoxo

Mrs Chic

Homesense + Micheal's

Haul

Today I decided to stop by Homesense & Micheal's, I'm so glad I did.
There's still a huge clearance sale going on at both stores, which I was surprised by, because its almost the end of January. Everything here I paid in total 25$ DN with taxes.
The retail price if it was not on clearance would have been 80$ CDN so I saved 60$. Yay. Who doesn't love a bargain???

I picked up four (4) packs of feathers, embellished with cute little beads and spray painted in varies colors of gold, silver, rose gold and black. I do some scrap booking here and there, but just recently started getting back into it, so these would make a great addition to my collection of craft materials.
I paid 1.00$ each per pack at Micheal's.

I know Christmas is quite a while away, but I could not pass up this cute gift tag and card set. I purchased two (2) sets for 2.99$ each, regular 11.99$ per set. You can see why I had to purchase two (2) sets lol . I love the colors, and the materials are all high quality. No need to be running around this year for Christmas cards and tags, and spending gobs of money on cards I will never use. I also purchased these at Micheal's.

I paid 1$ for this chalkboard gift bag ONE DOLLAR - regular 4.99$ - how cute is this. It even comes with a piece of chalk lol - I love collecting cute and unique gift bags, I'm obsessed with gift bags and really nice quality wrapping paper.

Love ribbon, does not matter for what occasion, I love ribbon.
These are about 10 meter's long and about 5 inches thick. Retail price was 12.99 each and I paid 1.50$ each at Micheal's - Two black glittery rolls, and one white roll with silver embellished edges.I will be using these for my next craft/art projects and for wrapping gifts, for birthday's and special occasions. Love them.

At Home Barista Latte Paper cups I purchased at Homesense for 1.99$ for six (6) cups and lids.
These were regular 6.99$ CDN - These are so adorable, there cute for a little friend gathering at you're house, or cute to drink from when blogging at home, or for work. Ditch the Tim Horton's cup, these cuties are my new fav.

Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate - I had to toss this in my cart at the last minute before checking out.
I cannot pass up adorable packaging and chocolate. I paid 2$ for this bar, regular 5$ at Homesense.

and last but not least I completed my purchases with this striped pink glitter gift bag for 1$ - regular 4.99$

Overall a pretty good haul - Spending only 25$

xoxo

Mrs Chic

Oh My

Mask's!

My face mask collection stash is a never ending obsession. With over 80 masks I'm literally contemplating using some on my fiance' lol
I'am however worried about  the expiry dates, which is why I have made this blog post to remind myself that all of these will expire if I do not use them.

I love facial masks and if your new to facial masks, there a fun little way to test out beauty products, while looking hilariously funny in the process. There is over 70,000 different face masks on the market today and counting, so you should be sure which ones will suite your skin before buying just any one of them, because I've heard some horror stories about very cheap/ knock off face masks produced in China. Don't fret though, most companies are legit. Just do some research before ordering from Ebay, or any other independent retail website that's foreign or not foreign.


My Mask obsession started with Memebox and from there all I started collecting . Buying masks left and right even though I didn't even need anymore, but hey, you can't have too many face masks right?

xoxo

Mrs Chic

HomeSense

Pick Me Up's

I woke up this morning feeling very "Blah". I decided to take a little drive to the city and do some retail shopping @ Homesense. Homesense is one of my favorite stores, and I love that everything is updated daily with new arrivals and little knick knacks for you're home and tummy :D

I had my shopping cart full to the brim, and realized that I had an 11 o'clock doctors appointment, so I kept what I could fit in my hands and made a dash to the checkout.

I purchased this black glass candles by LUNA, LUNAR ECLIPSE "Absinthe + Onyx". What attracted me to this candle was obviously the packaging, and second, the scent. The scent is a very musky, romantic, mystical notes, which is hard to describe because its something I've never smelled before, but my senses love it and I will have to go back there once I have time to pick up a few other kinds. This was 7.99$ regular 12.99$ so I was pretty pleased with the price tag. The packaging reminds me of magic, mystical, paranormal etc. Love it!!

This was a last minute "toss onto the cashier" purchase. The packaging caught my eye and I need a little nibble for my drive back to home. Its made with 40% GHANA milk chocolate by Saxon Chocolates. I paid 2.99$ regular 5$ for this puppy. *Updated* - Just dug into this, and its beautiful! The taste is very light with a creamy texture, its very different than any other chocolate I've tasted before. The taste is not overwhelmed by sugar, but by an aromatic of cocao, light and fluffy. Omg it's heavenly.

*Shifty eyes* - I will pretend I didn't read this...

 Last but not least i picked up this cute storage box by George Stanley for 10$. Its great size box to stash my Memebox products! I've run out of space!!! - It is a neon pink, with gold accents on the outside, and red accents on the interior of the box.

 In the process of moving everything into this box. I should have grabbed two more of these boxes. There was a navy blue one, and a neon green one, and one larger neon pink one, but I was in rush so didn't have the time, damn it!!! The other ones better be there when I got there again or I will be sad.

Until next time Homesense, you ..... are mine!

xoxo

Mrs Chic

Memebox

Memeshop Haul

I received a bunch of Memepoints at the end of July 2014 so I figured I would use them in there Memeshop because they don't usually put too many good name brand items in there box's that they have for sale in there shop. Buying from there store always makes me feel a bit better, especially after receiving a crappy box. There shipping is outrageous in there Memeshop but if you accumulate a lot of points, buy from there "SALES" sections, use affiliate 5$ off codes, and use separate accounts than you can save A LOT OF MONEY! like this haul for an instance. The total for everything here was 10$. Yup TEN DOLLA! lol. I used 3 accounts, with x3 5$ affiliate codes, with these being on sale + Memepoints on 3 accounts. Pretty fun stuff! LOL - The Real Beauty Rose essence serum was FREE! It was on sale for 9$ @ 10.99$ for shipping - used 15$ memepoints + 5$ affiliate code = FREE. Those 15 memepoints were given at the end of July, so I had 3+++ meme accounts. I love a great deal!! Makes me all warm inside haha.

LEFT - RIGHT

1: Dahin Little Witch White Pack REG: 32$ - PAID - 5$

2: x5 DEWYTREE SYN- AKE Black Masks /  REG: 5@ 15$ - PAID 5$

3: Real Beauty Moist Soothing Rose Serum - REG: 22$ - PAID  - 0$

Yup. Merry Christmas Tooooo Me!

xoxo

Mrs Chic.

Memebox

Shop Mini Haul

When I saw these cute little snail creams for sale on Memebox.com I had to purchase them, because I passed them up once on testerkorea.com and new it was fate when I saw these again lol.

These products are by Ladykin, in which I don't know much about, besides the company having very cute packaging! Asides from the snail creams I also purchase Ladykin's - PHYTOPLAN broccoli wrinkle radiance power ampoule for 15$ regular 50$ ,  the deals were amazing, and I'm excited to test them all out :)

Ladykin's Affinitic Snail Cream  is known for it's

Ladykin's Affinitic Whitening Moisturizer is known for it's

and once you've used up all of the product, you can create this cute little flower pot out of them!! How adorable is this?!!

xoxo

Mrs Chic.

Memebox Shop

Grinif Collection

I purchased a bunch of Grinif skincare products from Memebox Shop when they had a 50% off sale, I pretty much paid less than you would expect for all these, due to codes, and meme points combined.

Overal I'm very happy with everything. The quality is outstanding

Left -Right

Grinif Collagen 90 Ampoule 

I ordered the Collagen 90 Ampoule for 9.99$ . It's made with marine collagen extracts which helps strengthens skins elasticity and brightens skin tones , which also helps minimize fine lines.

I think what made me purchased this was that it helps with minimizing fine lines, and it brightens, I mean you can't go wrong with either or those, lets hope it says what it does.

Grinif Tea Tree Mist

I don't have acne prone skin, but I purchased it anyways because it came in a set with the pink powder, and I figured if I had a breakout one day, this would come in handy :) 

This product is made with tea tree oil, and witch hazel  to treat blemishes and acne prone skin, it also helps inflamed red skin due to breakouts.

Grinif Petit Hydro Cream

After application, facial contours appear sculpted & newly defined, fine lines and wrinkles are evened out and skin is moisturized. With continued use skin will gain resiliancy, and volume appears renewed for remarkably younger skin. 

Ive used this once and will continue for 6 weeks to see if it does say what its suppose to do.

This product retails on Memeshop for 22$

Grinif Ultimate Pore Silk BB Primer

Grinif's skin repair ultimate pore silk bb primer creates a lustrous , flawless finish that hydrates, firms and soothes your skin. It diminishes pores, fine lines, wrinkles and uneven skin tones, which helps cover imperfections for warm skintones. Its loaded with antioxidants and physical sunscreens with a broad- spectrum sun protection rated to SPF 25.

Beautiful primer by the way, its way up there in my loves along with Verikos  Ultra Matte Velvet Primer.

This retails for 28$

Grinif Pink Powder

This is also a blemish fighter for pimple prone skin, again I purchased this due to it being in a set with the tea tree oil :)

The pink powder heals blemishes and prevents break outs, due to the highest level of salicylic acide and calamine allowed, to calm acne flare ups and redness which results in a clear complexion that lasts.

Pretty nifty little product if you ask me.

Im very happy with Grinif's products, there packaging has a nice sleek design to it, and there products are outstanding! I would love to see some of Grinif's other products in Memebox boxes!!

xoxo

Mrs Chic.