New shoes and Jewellery project

Target have a new range of shoes, but they have also upped their prices!!  For me Target full price flats should be about the $16 range and you can usually guarantee that there will be some kind of sale where you can probably pick them up for $10.  I rushed in to Target the other day looking for a pair of pink ballet slippers after I hurt my back and had to give up heels, and I found the perfect pair except they were $20.  Of course this can still be considered a bargain, but not for Target (sad face).  I bought them despite still being annoyed for paying that much at Target, they are so cute and already I have got heaps of wear out of them!

Pink with gold studs and black bow tie.  These seem like good quality, Target actually have quite a few nice flats in at the moment.








New Weekly Star Style magazine.  I dont actually buy NW,  it hasnt been my kind of magazine for a few years, however when I spotted this in the supermarket I decided to buy it.  It was $5.00 and basically is bit like Shop Til Ya Drop but without any real articles in it.  It does feature heaps of bargain and budget buys and an ASOS 15% off code!

Jewellery Project continues!  I love turquoise and have a quite a few pieces in this colour.  these are two turquoise bracelets - one from Lovisa and the other one was a gift.  Necklace from ASOS, this was a bargain - only about $5 (I posted about this previously when I purchased).

Jewellery project and Magazines Galore

Today the jewellery project resumed, see items below (I am working on trying to capture better photos!):

Boring items but I actually wasn't feeling accessories today so had to force myself to choose these pieces. Black stud earrings part of a variety pack from diva. I have a tendancy to buy generic earrings like this alot forgetting I already have exact ones at home already!


Pink ring from diva. Told u they were boring choices ;-)



I haven't bought magazines for ages (I get who delivered weekly and glamour and allure delivered monthly. Hubby put extra dollars in my account so I used it wisely - bought magazines!! I got the Instyle I posted about last post. Mimco bag is okay for a freebie- but not happy about sneaky price surcharge! I haven't bought Instyle for years as I borrow it from the library, but I know it's not $9,95 which is what they are charging this issue!! I find that a bit deceptive, they certainly don't advertise the price jump it's written in small writing on the cover. So technically the bag isn't a freebie, it's like $2.


Shop til ya drop - I sporadically buy this mag, it had some good articles this month so I picked it up.

Cosmopolitan - I have had a subscription to this and Cleo for a few years, but because they wouldn't give me the $99.95 bundle I always got I wouldn't renew - over a year Cleo and Cosmo do some awesome freebies that subscribers miss out on.

When Capitalism is masked as Frugality, Jewellery project and another sample down

Recently this article was marketed as a Frugality article: http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/frugal-is-the-future-look-for-fashion-followers/story-e6frfmd9-1226159933527.  Quite clearly this is an advertisment for the launch of a new Kmart range.  And in fact the blogger they feature Penny Chic blogs about Walmart fashion (American Kmart). Penny Chic's blog is actually really good and is a brilliant example of smart advertising in todays social networking environment.  I had actually thought Kmart had improved their shoe range recently to start matching Targets good range.

Today's Jewellery:

These black and gold bracelets are from Sportsgirl.  Cant remember how mcuh they cost.  I also wore a my gold watch and hoops but I am not including them in the project as they are investment pieces.









10 pan project sample project - two down:

This is a sample of Mariah Carey's perfume, at first I liked it because it was so different to my normal perfumes.  By half way through I couldnt stand the floral overtones and gave up on this.  Lucky it was free!

Goody goodies and so many projects

I got a few goodies today, all skincare stuff (I think this is okay and doesnt clash with my no buy makeup policy/10 pan project):

 I really wanted a Clarisonic but I really cant afford one.  After researching alternatives I found the Olay Pro X brush getting awesome reviews on MakeupAlley.  The Olay Pro X brush is only about $40 US, I dont know why but its not only not for sale in Australia but it is I couldnt find any US sellers that would sell to Australia!  Amazon specifically says not available for shipping to Australia :-(.  Eventually I purchased off Ebay for $50.  I will post review when I start using.  Because of baby baking I cannot use my Retin A anymore so I am hoping that this exfoliater brush will make an impact on my skin similar to Retin A.

I heart Avon.  I havent know an Avon seller for a while, so I was excited when one popped up on my work bulletin board and I was finally able to put an order in!  I bought the Avon anew rejuvanate sapphire night emulsion.  It was a little bit expensive - $39.99, however I recieved a bucket load of freebies with it that more than made up for the price!!  YAY Avon :-)

The Jewellery Project: Day 2.  This bracelet is new (previously posted purchase) $5 from Sportsgirl.  Earrings from Diva, they were part of a pack of multi earrings.

The old becomes new Jewellery project and the art of zen

Today was the first day of my project 'wear all my jewellery before I buy anymore project', I have alot to wear! eek:

This necklace I got from a boutique for $20, its one of my favourites so I kicked off this project with a fairly easy choice :-).

The ring was $2 from Diva - cant beat a deal like that ;-).








The Art of Zen: Today I drove my car to work, which I rarely do as I take the bus usually.  It was 8am and I was putting the change in the meter ($8 worth of change!!) and was waiting the 5 seconds it takes for the ticket to come out when the lady behind me said 'just push the button', I glanced at her pushed the button again and said the ticket is coming but Ive pushed it again for you (with what I thought was a light hearted laugh cause seriously what the - it had been about 5 seconds and it said ticket printing), as I grabbed the ticket and walked away she totally lost it and started swearing at me and carrying on.  I just ignored her because clearly this lady had problems if waiting for the ticket to come out of the meter took her over the edge at 8 in the morning!  I refused to let her mood impact mine, good karma for me and bad karma for her!

Mad Men tv series: After discovering the tv shows Game of Thrones and How to Make it in America, I thought I would give the Mad Men tv series a go.  Especially as Mad Men get such awesome reviews and the actors are in the magazines all the time getting papped and doing interviews.  And I did try to like it, I watched three episodes but I just found it boring. Sad Face :-(.

Confessions and Benefit Browbar

It is the day before my 'wear all my jewellery before buying more project'! And I have forgotten to post the last two purchases I made at Colette Acessories (I need to work on my photography skills!):

Bracelets - $9.95, these are alot more vibrant in real life, the lighting in our apartment is pitiful and probably the dodgy notebook backdrop is not helping.  I bought these last week but forgot to own up to the purchases :-).  I did have these on my wishlist for a week before I caved and bought though.  Lovisa has 10% off if you sign up for their newsletter in store, so I did and got 10% off my purchases.  The girl who was in line before me said no thanks when asked to sign up, why would you throw $5 away for the sake of forking over your name and email address.  I guess other people are more private than me, I will give my email address to anybody for money lol.


This headband was $4.95, I am totally addicted to headbands and did not need another one.  But it is sooo pretty :-) It is a goldy amber sparky headband.





Benefit's browbar has changed my life.  Well not exactly changed it, but has made it less stressful.  Last year the Myers where I live got a Mac and a Benefit ( Oh what a glorious day that was ! :-)).  And thus ended my years and years of chancing it at different beauty salons and hoping that they didnt butcher my eyebrows, I would estimate that at least once a year I would say to the beautician - please leave very thick and just tidy up, and then walk out with thin butchered eyebrows :-(.  Since visiting the Benefit browbar for the last year, my eyebrows have been Perfect with a capital P!  Primped blogged about the browbar a few years ago: http://www.primped.com.au/blogs/guest-blog/bag-instant-brow-benefits-at-the-new-benefit-brow-bar.