pre-birthday treat

Sheesh, I should never make public statements about my good spending habits because I rarely manage to follow through longer than 24 hours after making such statements! Got myself some pre-birthday gifts for me, myself and I as the title suggests. I had been lurking around the Urban Decay site for the past week or so as they had a spingtime "Friends and Family 20% Off" discount site-wide offer going on. Yesterday was the last day and I thought I could be good but I guess the deals to be had overwhelmed my fiscally responsible side and I ended up checking my cart out. It's actually my first attempt at shopping direct from the Urban Decay site so I wasn't sure if my faux US addy would stand up to the checks but I did get my order confirmation and all appears to be hunky dory for now. We'll see after the President's Day holiday if my order still stands the test of time (and more security checks - Tarte was quick to reject me :D).

Anywho, the sale extended to even the Sales items which is where my purchases came from. I got a bunch of eyeshadow palettes that normally costs between $38-$39 per box but were already on sale for about half off. Plus the extra 20% off and it became more than half off for these popular palettes. To round up the cost for free shipping, I decided to get another sale product which was th Lip Junkie in the shade Runaway. My haul....

The Mariposa palette, which is the main product I wanted - look at the shades in the palette, so totally gorgeous!, was on sale for 19 bucks. That was also the sale price for the Eyeshadow Ammo Shadow Box. The Deluxe Shadow Box was selling for cheaper at $16. The Lip Junkie was going for $9. Altogether, after the coupon code FFSPRING13 was applied was a very bargain door-buster $50.40. Also, Urban Decay threw in 2 free samples, a deluxe tube of the Naked BB Cream and a sample of their original Primer Potion.

Anyway, like mentioned above, I'm really unsure if the transaction will ultimately go through but fingers crossed it wil :)

DISCLAIMER:
Images screen capped from urbandecay.com. I do not own them.

UPDATE (20/02/2013):
As suspected from the moment I made the order, it got canceled, boohoo! Hehe, what surprised me though is that the email mentioned they're not against freight forwarders, they just support the one freight forwarder, MyUS.com. Oh well. I'm a happy camper with comGateway so I really can't see myself jumping ship just because urbandecay.com doesn't support the freight forwarder of my choice :D

turning another year older.....

Every year, my group of besties will buy each other a gift of our own choosing during our birthday. We each are in charge for the person whose birthday is right before ours. I am the person-in-charge (PIC) for the preggy one who wanted an iPad mini which is currently on the way from Shenzen, China to Homeland. Her birthday is on the 25th of this month and I put things in motion way back in January since her due date will be about the time of her birthday as well. I didn't want my PIC duties to get swallowed up by her having her first child and getting delayed. I know, selfish of me but great for her cos she gets her prezzie earler.

I, too, am getting my gift one month earlier to the date. Only because there was only one left of the main thing I wanted so the purchase needed to go through ASAP. This year, I decided to ask my besties for some stuff from that Homeland site I'm so addicted to. The PIC for my birthday is the bestie who is currently working in Singapore and when I gave her my list, she promptly got on it and my goodies are en route to my house in Homeland as I type. Everything totaled to about USD135.50.

The number one item on the list was the Kelsi Dagger Molly pumps. I am looking for another pair of appropriate shoes for work. The Jessica Simpson wedges I'm using are getting beaten up pretty good and I need to have a backup cos those wedges look like they're gonna come to the end of their life soon. Which dooes disappoint me slightly since I've had them for less than a year. Perhaps I shoould be kinder to my shoes :)

Then I decided I wanted the sleeveless blazer from the brand Something Borrowed. I've been wanting a more office-appropriate vest to wear and I feel this might fill my criteria. Another vest purchase was the long vest with pockets from the brand Musso. I've been completely relying on my waterfall vest I got from Thailand 4 years ago and although still in relatively awesome condition, I feel like I need to have a backup just in case. This vest might not be as great as my Jatujak vest but maybe it'll serve me well. Lastly, I decided to pick up this Ethnic Chic Isabella peplum dress. My love-hate affair with peplum continues. I've had quite a few missteps with peplum. The Cotton On peplum top was a tad too short but I overcome that by constantly stretching it longer. The one I got from Homeland site earlier last month was ill-fitting through the sleeves but I fixed that by cutting off the sleeves and making it into a sleeveless peplum top :D I'm crossing my fingers that third times the charm, hehehe. And it's hot pink!

DISCLAIMER:
All images belong to the Homeland site and not moi.

meet my other new love

Going back for Baby Danial's birth also gave me the opportunity to pick up a bunch of my stuff. After many moons moonng over the Rebecca Minkoff Morning-After-Bag, I finally have mine in hand. It's been a bit of a learning curve to get the bag to fall just right as it's very smooshy. Yes, smooshy is a common term used when in reference to the structure of a handbag and how that affects the way the bag "falls" :D

Also managed to get my hands on the F21 stuff like the mint green high neck blouse and black tapered pants below....

Wore this outfit to work the other day. The thing with F21 is that sometimes, you can buy the same piece in the same size but different hues and they don't fit exactly the same. But these pants, they don't seem to have that problem and for that I am very happy. The mint green blouse is also very lovely and cooling. And since the material is prone to show perspiration in all its glory, I made sure that I had myself covered in that area - there was liberal use of my Dove Invisble Dry anti-perspirant spray, hehehe.

Also, since we're covering an OOTD with apparel I've recently gotten, here's a casual OOTD of me wearing my new Cotton On sleep shirt, the RM MAB as well as my new leather Converse. I'm also wearing my waterfall vest gotten from Jatujak Market back in '09 when I went to Thailand on the company retreat and my Uniqlo jeggings.

I've been kinda great about not buying anything of late. When I was in Homeland, I did not spend on any clothes/beauty product and whatnot. Aside from groceries that is - a girl's gotta eat!

for the 4th time.....

I'M AN AUNTIE AGAIN! Baby Danial was born on 9th February at 9:27am weighing in at 2.93kg. I went back to Homeland for his birth so I've met the lil guy already. Mum and baby are doing okay. Congrats to moi!