I only live two hours away from the rest of my famjam, but sometimes it feels like two provinces. I haven’t even had the opportunity to meet the newest addition to the family yet! I had written a complain-y post about it then remembered that there are children starving in Africa and I am sitting in my amazing apartment (which I move out of in two weeks time) wearing a brand spankin’ new outfit and eating green curry with peanut butter in it and I’m not even in a complain-y mood at all. So instead I’ll tell you about my shopping spree yesterday. Well, my version of a shopping spree – I don’t know what the average person defines as a ‘spree’ but I got a new pair of jeggings (don’t judge), a top and two tanks, new purple shampoo (that I hope my boyfriend doesn’t use to actually dye my hair as a prank), and a gift for my baby Brianna. After being fun-employed for so long last year shopping was very low on my priority lists. I would pretty much go to the mall, find the absolute cheapest tank top or t-shirt I could find and buy it and smuggle it in to my house so to avoid the guilt-inducing stares from my boyfriend. Okay that’s all a lie. I definitely do that, but I spend a bit of cashola at my absolute favourite consignment store, The Wild Rose in Guelph.

Best part about Wild Rose is that they post a lot of their new pieces on their Facebook page. If you aer ever in Guelph, or happen to live there, book off a few hours of your day and go, you have to dig around but they have a lot of vintage pieces and newer high end designer stuff. I got a Roots hobo from Wild Rose in 2008 and it’s still going strong. It even survived the last four Stampedes, which is actually saying a lot (unfortunately, my cowboy hat didn’t. RIP my favourite cowboy hat). Both are on display in the photo below snapped on the dance floor at Ranchman’s Stampede ’09, which was probably the craziest one yet as evidenced in the picture.

Back to my recent shopping experience. I loooove FCUK so much that it hurts, because their prices are a little too high for my budget. I fell in love with this dress a while back and when I saw it on sale for over 40% off the original price it was begging to come home to my closet. Alas, it didn’t. I left it behind like a sad little puppy waiting for it’s treat.

I moved on to Lucky Brand Jeans, where I never ever shop, because it had a sign outside that said “additional 30% off sale items”. At first I was all pshhh, that’s always too good to be true. But it wasn’t! And there I found budget-friendly success.

Love this top. Apparently it’s called the Acacia Metallic Bead Top, and it’s the absolute perfect top for our humid summers – I feel like easy, breezy, beautiful cover girl when I wear it.  Best part? It was like 60% off the regular price.

Aaaand, I bought jeggings, which were also an awesome deal, and they look great on. On the website they are called Pull On Denim Leggings, but that’s a lie. They are jeggings but apparently Lucky Brand thinks they are too cool to have a product called ‘jeggings’, which I don’t really blame them for. It’s a terrible word. Just like the word ‘Twitter’. I adore Twitter probably too much, but I hate the name. A lot.

This next purchase is actually a public service announcement for tall girls everywhere: buy this tank top from Dynamite. Actually, buy it in every colour. I value a good tank that doesn’t ride up my waist or hit too high above the hips and this one is it. It’s also soft and doesn’t have a built in shelf bra (hate) and is only $9.90. It comes in black, white, navy and you’re welcome.

So in the end I didn’t buy much at all but it was still exciting for me and I felt like a bit of a queen. When my sisters and I were growing up the first thing we would do when we got home is show each other what we had bought, and it was so disappointing to come home to an empty house and not have anyone to show! So this way I get to show the whole world.