Kitchener On 100 Dollars A Day

I went to KW on Monday for some mommy/daughter bonding. I got there early so I did some light shopping. First stop was Dollarama where I purchased some watermelon tinted lip oil and tube of sheer blush (which I also used as eye shadow). This is what it looked like after application.

I like just a hint of colour — enough that I don’t look like a dried up zombie or feel all caked up. I am also saving up for some Charlotte Tilbury concealer to cover up my age spots. Then my makeup kit should be complete. The cost was approximately $10.

As usual, I failed to account for the difference in temperature between Toronto and Kitchener, so I also picked up an oversized scarf and a pair of operate length fingerless gloves. These are quite brilliant because they address my love for 3/4 length coat sleeves (my forearms will always be cozy now) and rings (getting the fingers over baubles has always been a problem). This pic also includes a reversible bucket hat that I purchased at my local Dollarama last week. It is corduroy on one side and Sherpa on the other. It was an impulse buy prompted by the death of the Stone Roses bassist Mani and the wave of 1990s nostalgia that followed. Not counting the hat, the ensemble cost about $10.

My next destination was the KW VV. It was slim pickings. I bought a bag of postcards and a naked Superman action figure (but just for the cool red boots, modelled here by a Bubble haired Barbie clone. Because the dolls I find usually come in a shoeless state. The total bill: $10.

Then I picked up my mom to go for dinner and a life drawing class at the University of Waterloo. The halls of the Fine Arts building were plastered with these prints. I reckoned they were free, so I took one.

Dinner was $15 each, plus tip. The rest of the hundred went to Uber fares. My mom drawing naked people: priceless.