My favourite radio station has (as of this morning) gone all Christmas 24/7! You can listen to them online here if you need some holiday music to get you in the mood to decorate! I will be tuning in all day since I need to get the Christmas tree up and decorated this week and I am just not feeling Christmassy just yet! I will put a link to the live stream on my side bar!
My trip to Watertown was a success! The drive took longer than normal because it was a weekend and the dollar is very good right now so the border was busy with cars packed full of Canadian women on a mission!
As soon as we got to the shopping centre I went to the store I knew had Vera Bradley bags and picked up this bowler bag for myself! I wanted this style but they didn't have any pink ones so I went with the blue and brown since it will go with most of my wardrobe. I love this bag! It opens really wide and has lots of pockets! It will be perfect for going into the city as it is big enough to hold everything I need to take with me like a book, knitting, snacks for the train etc!
Have you tried these?! YUM! I love (LOVE) mint and chocolate together so I had to buy a few bags of these! They are very good but they don't have a crisp shell so that took me by surprise!
Sticking with my love of chocolate and mint I picked up a few bags of these miniatures...they are very yummy too! Did you really think I was going to make it through Target without a stop in the chocolate aisle? Yes I did buy 2 more bags of Dove dark chocolates...you know, just in case the world comes to an end or something! I also picked up 15 bags of candy for our Christmas party favours - mini KitKats, tootsie rolls, Dove peppermint, Rolos and Life Savers all in Christmas colours! I will post photos of our favours when I have them made. I am so excited to have the favours decided and ready to put together - every year we have to come up with some way to outdo ourselves! This year they will be all candy we cant get in Canada! Ok, we can get most of them but Canadians simply don't tackle the holidays the way Americans do so we have KitKats but not Christmas KitKats!
I got lots of clothes for the holidays and some presents for the Little Prince. The Suburban Prince is hard to shop for but I did find him a nice RL shirt and a sweater vest for him. We went to Khols but the clothes were just so-so that day but all of the Autumn decor was on sale and I got a great blanket, towels and a pumpkin soap pump! They are all packed away until next Autumn so I will take photos of them when I decorate next year.
The next stop was the mall where we bought out Bath & Body Works. Even though we can go into Toronto and shop there (BBW is very very new to Canada) we were there and figured we would just get what we wanted while it was all on sale! Have you seen the new Fireside candles and other scented items? I adore this scent!
When we were in Target I picked up a candle make by Nature's Wick. I bought Bonfire Nights scent and it is so nice! I burned it all day yesterday and it threw the scent really well! Throwing the scent is the very technical term for a candle's ability to actually scent the room after it has been lit. We have all come across those candles that smell great until you light them and then they don't scent the room! The Nature's Wick candles smell very nice while burning! The wick is made of wood and crackles while it burns! I couldn't find a photo online of these candles but they are in the candle section at Target. There are a number of candle companies selling wood wick candles online as well.
This week I will be busy getting the house decorated for the holidays as well as lunch with a friend, planning a girls night for Christmas and trying to figure out what to get my parents and in-laws for Christmas - even though we have told them we don't want anything for Christmas they seem to be insisting we exchange gifts. I think that means we wont be getting any gifts but are still expected to get them gifts! What do you buy someone who says they don't want anything for the house or anything that will take up any space? It often comes down to exchanging cash which I think is a bit silly. I have already been called a Grinch for cancelling Christmas by my dad - funny how he is the hardest one to shop for! I will need to stick to my guns on this one - we don't need anything and our parents don't need anything either so it would be so nice to just have a relaxing Christmas and a nice meal all together!
Have a fabulous day!
