Remember when I did a how to use at home self tanner post a few months back? I said my all time favorite self-tanner was a very expensive bottle of St. Tropez. You can get it at Sephora, but I have no idea where else you can purchase it. I think certain spa’s in Toronto carry it.
Well my friend, after going through three bottles of St. Tropez between 2011-2012, I have a much more inexpensive alternative. Wait. It’s not even an alternative. It’s way better and way cheaper. I purchased it for $5.00 on ebay from the seller beautybargins4u. I know that sounds absolutely crazy, swapping out a $50 bottle of St. Tropez for a $5 bottle of St. Moriz. Haha love the names of them, don’t you? They’re always St-something or others.
Why St. Moriz better:
It’s $45 cheaper
It has more of an olive based (though I admit, St. Tropez has an olived toned to it as well)
St. Moriz doesn’t smell as strong
It lasts just as long, in fact longer
It doesn’t wear off patchy (St. Tropez doesn’t either, though)
St. Moriz was easier to spread, even though they’re both mousse I felt that the St. Tropez dried up quicker on my skin and had to use more product
The link that I directed you to above, is a seller from the UK. So bare in mind that if you were to purchase it, it may take a while to get to you.
I’ve always gotten questions about whether or not very pale people can use self tanner. Of course you can! I would suggest not using a full pump on each part of your body like I do, to get a super summer dark color. For example, I use one full pump on my lower leg, one full pump on my upper leg, and so on.
Big thanks to Jen for introducing me to St. Moriz! I owe ya.
The Fairy Hobmother visited me for my Birthday this morning! How fun, a little belated birthday wish! The fairy overloards run the site over at www.appliancesonline.co.uk, and grant wishes for those who are wishing for a new appliance or even electronics. Speaking of electronics, I’m going to fly home to Newfoundland this month and my parents are saving my birthday gift for when I arrive. They’ve purchased a GPS gadget for my car. I’m not opposed to using these things in my car now that I’ve gotten lost (in Mississauga, and on a military base!!) a few times. I didn’t want to rely on a machine to direct me places. I wanted to get situated on driving on the highways here in Ontario.
What would your wish be for a new appliance or electronic if the Fairy Hobmother visited you? I think I’d wish for an ipod dock/usb thing to go in my car so I could listen to some tunes while driving up north to visit my cousin.
Now! Onto my birthday. I celebrated my Birthday for a number of days this week.
The first being Saturday May 5th. My Boyfriend suggested he needed my car to go to Toronto, and I almost always tell him yes. This time was no different, I didn’t think I was going as I thought he was going to go to the bike store to get new tires for his tri-bike.
A few days later I noticed on the news, that Picasso’s 147 paintings were going to be shown at the AGO and I immediately blackberried the boyf telling him I’d love to see it, eventually. He didn’t respond, which I thought it was quite rude lol.
That night he came home and I asked him if he received my Blackberry message. He said he did and then he told me he purchased tickets for us to go and it was going to be a birthday surprise and I was to come to Toronto with him on Saturday, but he thought I may have made other plans and wanted to tell me in advance.
I was SOOO excited! I may have even done the Carlton Dance (Fresh Prince anyone?) for him to show how happy I was. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned on here that when I was a teenager and a bit older, I painted “replica’s” of Picasso’s for myself, friends and family. I spent hours trying to perfect the painting I was doing so it would turn out almost exactly like Picasso’s. It was a huge part of my life, and I did a ton of paintings throughout the years.
I’ve even done school projects on him when I took Art History classes in Graphic Design and also in my other courses I did when I got out of High School.
My mom has some of my Picasso replicas hung up at my parents house back in Newfoundland, so I don’t have any here to show you, but here are some of Picasso’s paintings that I created (these are picasso’s not mine by the way):Being the Toronto tourist that I am, I took as many photos as possible.
Understandably so, photos weren’t allowed to be taken in the exhibit itself. Though, I only assume so for obvious reasons. There weren’t any cameras out, nor signs saying we couldn’t take any photos. But with all do respect, I didn’t take any. Though I tried really hard to take snap shots with my eyeballs and implant them into my forever-memory. Impossible.
Hi Pablo buddy!
Oh hello second wife, third lover — Dora Maar.
Just outside the Picasso exhibit. I absolutely love the architectural design that Frank Gehry did of the AGO. It’s one of the most memorable buildings I’ve ever been in. It’s fantastic looking. I think my Dad (a retired Architect himself) would enjoy this place.
I thought our day was over after the Picasso exhibit, because even though I love my birthday I’m kinda used to not celebrating it so much. We had plans to go to IKEA since I forgot to pick up some light bulbs when I went with Stephanie last time.
We parked in China Town, and I snapped away as the Boyfriend was rushing to the car. Why are you walking so fast! Wait! I want to be a tourist. Take my photo!
We ended up running into a Parade in China Town! How crazy right?
Once we got to the car, we were still downtown and not on a highway heading towards IKEA like I had thought.
The boyfriend ended up on a side street and trying to parallel park. I asked if we were parking here, and why. But again he ignored my question. (Why does he do that!?)
I glanced up and saw a slew of people walking in one direction with their Toronto FC (soccer) scarves and apparel on. I smiled but kept it to myself until I couldn’t hold it any longer. Which was probably in reality, 20 seconds.
Are we going to a soccer game? I asked. He of course said yes.
Dude. He knows me, and he knows me well. I love soccer, I love picasso. Art and sports. Two of “my things. While we were walking to BMO field, he asked when I figured it out. Well buddy – it wasn’t that hard seeing as I’ve always said I wanted to see a pro soccer match, and since you parked in a not so inconspicuous place with everyone wearing TFC apparel. I put two and two together ;)
Not only did he get tickets to the Toronto FC vs. DC tickets, he got the “best seats in the house” when booking them online.
HECK YEAH! Look how freaking close we were told the field! We weren’t in the bleachers at all. We were literally on the concrete right next to the players.
I’m pretty sure I was the loudest person in the area I was in. I couldn’t help being exited. In fact, the women next to me kept looking over and smiling at me, causing me to get a little self-conscious of my shouting “Cmon that wasn’t off sides!” or. “YEAH YEAH YEAH! GO!!!!” and shouting at the players hahaha.
I should be a pro-photographer, don’t you think? Look at the size of their meaty legs! Boom.
As much as I enjoy watching soccer games like this, I’m not regretting my decision to not play outdoor for the first time in YEARS, this season. I’ve stayed the same size since High School, and everyone of the defense on other teams just kept on growing. Now they’re man-sized, broad, and brutal. They’ll do anything to knock you down. Even though I was an agressive forward/mid-fielder, I find that it’s become dirty, and I just always got injured. Thankfully I haven’t broken any bones but I did hurt my ankle pretty bad. So I’ve decided to stop.
Our goalie (The Toronto guy, not the players from DC).
I even took a quick video of a kick Toronto had on DC. Hee!!!
Me after we lost 2-0. The Toronto fans weren’t as loud as I had thought they were going to be. The game was pretty much silent, except for the DC crowd in the bleachers with flags the size of transport trucks. They were HUGE!
My boy’s done well in surprising me for my Birthday. Well done boyfriend :)
Don’t forget about my HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME Giveaway. Tons of prizes to be won:
You have til May 13.
As most of you already know, my boyfriend of almost 7 years is a Triathlete. A hardcore Ironman competitor.
This will be his fourth year in a row competing at Ironman Canada. You can only imagine how hard and long he trains for such an event. Or what kind of appetite he has.
I rarely see him on the week nights as he’s always gone swimming, at the gym on the treadmill, or even on the bike trainer at home. He is constantly on the move.
Fueling up his body for all the exercise he does on a regular basis requires a lot of food on hand to gorge on when he’s finished.
As you can imagine, coming home from a full day’s work, I don’t always feel up to cooking a huge feast every night. When that happens, my Boyfriend usually gravitates towards a snack before we settle down to have dinner. He keeps two quickly accessible snacks to tide him over because he’s like a bottomless pit. Never has a full stomach. The first things he goes for are peanuts, and the second is white bread (often with peanut butter and jam). Both are filling, but the white bread gives him more quick carbs.
I don’t eat much bread in general. I’m just not huge on sandwiches (unless it’s paninis….yum) and if I did, I’d make luncheon meat sandwiches because those are delicious! But we don’t have that meat at home because it’s not the best for you. However, I will never say no to a good ol’ homemade grilled cheese sandwich. The boyfriend is a pro at making those, so on occasion we have resorted to those kinds of suppers when both of us are too lazy to cook.
Dempsters doesn’t only make sliced bread. They make those delicious tortilla wraps too. We always have piles of that at home, because I love making chicken wraps, and especially chicken quesadillas with them.
Sure we have the healthier bread options available to us at home and make other things out of it. But some things just taste way better on white bread than whole wheat. All in moderation, I say. Right? Plus, the reason why the boyfriend picks out Dempsters white bread is because is made with enriched wheat flour. So it’s kinda got a little hidden whole wheat bread disguised in there.
Fun facts about white bread:
Over 60% of Canadians think sandwiches taste better when someone else makes them. (Heck yeaaah, get that boyfran of mine in the kitchen and make me a sammich!)
Canada’s favourite way to eat sliced white bread is toasted (40%) followed by grilled cheese (16%) and peanut butter and jelly sandwich (14%).
I gotta say, I’m with the 16% who placed grilled cheese first. I’d have grilled cheese over a bitta toasted bread. How about you? How do you eat your white bread?
Dempsters has given me twelve coupons in total for free bread, 2 for me and the rest to share with friends, family members and even you guys out there — my blog readers! So be sure to leave a comment below telling me how you pair up your white bread and how you eat it!
I am a member of the Maple Leaf Foods Connects program. As part of my participation, I have been compensated both monetarily and with free product, however, all opinions and ideas share on this blog remain my own.
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