Post-Christmas Rush and Lush!

I'm back home in NJ after being with my family for the past week in GA!  It was so nice to see all of them and be together for the holidays.  We did gift exchanging on Christmas Eve because my flight was on Christmas Day.    Today, I bravely went to the mall which was rife with traffic congestion to do my Christmas shopping.  It was a little overwhelming but got out of there in two hours.  I got some of my coworkers yummy Voluspa candles, a hair straightener for my roommate, Fashion sketchpad and tattoo pens for her daughter, and Skyrim for my boyfriend!  On top of getting all the gifts I needed to pick up, my boyfriend decided to be awesome and let me spend $100 at Lush!  =D

The Season of Giving

Now that we're officially in the Holiday season, I'm sure we're all bustling about to get gifts for all our loved ones. Interestingly enough, I don't exchange gifts with my family often. Usually my sister and I pool together some money to buy our parents something or even just get a gift card whilst my mother will take us shopping on behalf of my dad as well. This Christmas, I think the best gift will be that our whole family will be together. It happens once a year and originally I didn't think I was going to be able to make it home for Christmas but due to an unexpected emergency, I was able to be excused from work to be with my family for a week.

Meanwhile, I do have a small list of people I will be getting gifts for although some may be late since my bank has been set back a bit buy a last minute plane ticket. So what kind of gifts are surefire hits?

Lush Lips

I first heard of Lush a few years ago through one of my college roommates who was obsessed with their soaps. Being a poor student, I paid no attention to her ravings, didn't take any whiffs of her loot, and thought some of them looked odd and moldy from a cursory glance. Little did I know...

Roughly a year ago, a Lush shop opened up in my area's mall. Recalling my roommate's love of Lush, I took a stroll in. The prices definitely intimidated me but I was impressed by the visual merchandising and the company ethos. I wanted to try a lot of the bath products but my apartment back then had no tub. I behaved and purchased a lip scrub for my dry and chapped winter lips.