Hey, Canada! Have you seen a single advert today not celebrating our upcoming 150th birthday bash? The excitement for Canada’s anniversary for confederation keeps upping a notch every day we get closer to July 1st! If you plan to make this year’s celebration as memorable as possible, here are a few accessories to keep you in the game.
imPRESS Your Friends with Your Love for Canada
This year there are some fantastic beauty/makeup accessories to show off your Canadiana. Check out these fantastic press-on nails, false lashes, and temporary tattoos that will keep you rocking all day. They’re all available at your local Walmart.
imPRESS gel press-on nails are my absolute favourite. They’re so easy to apply, and will last up to a week if desired. Their designs are always gorgeous, and I couldn’t tell you how many times I heard “Oh! I love your nails!” while wearing these ones.
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I do love these designs too. I think it really depends on your comfort-level of long nails, and how long you’re wanting them to last. These nails under the KISS brand will stick around for about two weeks. Truly love how stylish the ones with “CANADA” written across the nail are!
YES! You can totes show your love of Canada with every blink of an eye.
What is Canada Day without an ample amount of temporary tattoos all over your bod? Be sure you also use ample sunscreen too, unless you enjoy curious looking designs to enhance your Canada Day weekend sunburn!
The massive sheet of tats from KISS is all kinds of gorgeous, and carries enough to distribute amongst your family for group style.
While you’re at Walmart to pick up all imPRESS and KISS Canada-themed accessories, check out their Canada day tees! Sure, if your budget & body can fit one of Roots fabulous “nice.” t-shirts, go for it. But for those of us that can’t, Walmart has some truly comfortable tees under $10 that share your love of Canada beautifully.
What’s a Geek Without a Collection?
Visit the Mint’s website today to order up to 3 “My Canada, My Inspiration” coin collection books for free! All you have to do is pay $2.50 for shipping and handling. Once you have these boards in hand, bring the family over to your local bank and ask the teller if they have any of the recently minted 2017 coins.
Kit and I call it “coin hunting”, which he’s been enjoying immensely. It’s like Pokemon hunting, except for real items that will always have some historical significance. You’ll need $5.65 to complete an entire coin exchange (not including the $2.50 for required for shipping the coin collecting book to you.)
Party Like It’s 1867
I was going to create a list for you of free places to party throughout Canada, but luckily Red Flag Deals has created that list already. Check out their site for all the fun to be had on July 1st!
For Toronto, much of Canada Day partying can be found at these locations:
- Amesbury Park
- Black Creek Pioneer Village
- Downsview Park
- Fort York
- Harbourfront Centre
- Humber Bay Park West
- Mel Lastman Square
- Nathan Phillips Square (the lineup for Toronto Sign selfies will be insane!)
- Queen’s Park
- Redpath Waterfront Festival – We’ll be visiting either July 2nd or 3rd to see that massive Rubber Duck!
- Royal Ontario Museum
- TIFF Bell Lightbox
- Woodbine Park
- Yonge/Dundas Square
What are your plans to celebrate Canada Day on its 150th year? There will be so much red & white, can you handle it??
Disclaimer: I’ve received some of the items mentioned above for review purposes. All opinions are my own.
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Okay, I need to find those nails and eye lashes, they’re so perfect for Canada’s 150…and what the heck I’m getting some tattoos too!
I have been on the look out for the commemorative coins but haven’t found them, so glad you mentioned about ordering them, heading over to do that right now!
KISS and imPRESS have awesome beauty accessories for Canada Day for sure! 😀
For the Mint, the link above is for the free collector’s board (sans coins), so you would need to go to the bank to grab the coins before they hit circulation, BUT the Mint does have a full collection of uncirculated coins too, which was something I happened to pick up as well. It was $19.95 + free shipping when I bought it about a month ago…
Absolutely love these ideas! So many fun things to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. I was thinking of getting coins for my boys – will definitely have to do it.
I’m wondering if coin collecting is a bit of a lost “art”? We’re lucky to have four of the five major Banks within walking distance of home, so we had choices in where to start our search for uncirculated coins.
The first bank we went to… to this day, I honestly don’t know what the teller was referring to…
Kit and I went to her when called, and asked if she had any of the new coins available, and I had pictures of the coins on hand from the Mint’s website.
Her answer was, “No we sold out of those pretty quickly. I heard that there are only about 70 twoonies left available online.”
Perplexed (’cause come on, only 70 twoonies left available for all of Canada?) I asked her again, “I’m looking for circulated coins of the new design that was released mid-May.”
And again, she was adamant that they were sold out in the bank, and that they’re only available online now.
There was miscommunication somewhere, but I’m baffled as to how.
So I’m wondering if not too many people “bother” tellers for collectors coins as they once used to, heh. I’m definitely making this a thing for Kit and I to do more often though!
Oh those nails!!! Love love love! We always do Canada Day shirts and an annual family photo tradition as part of our celebrations.
SO much fun! We picked up a few of those for the girls. Can’t wait for the weekend.