Muji Acrylic Cases

I've been wanting to organize my makeup better and I was just using a 3 drawer Sterilite drawers like this forever. They are kind of ugly and generic looking. 

There's something about acrylic cases, they are expensive!

There is one that makeup gurus on YouTube uses called The Clear Cube, which is crazy expensive ($300+), so I kept looking to find them. I found that The Container Store carries them but we don't have one here, so I kept searching until I came across these Muji acrylic cases.  

They are made by Muji and you can order them online but they sell out quickly so you have to get on a waiting list and get notified if they are out of stock. 

I've been wanting to get these for so long, it was on my Christmas list 2 years ago. Finally this year I used the money I got from Christmas and bought myself two of these. I got the 5 Drawer ($27.95) and a 3 Drawer ($24.75). As you can see it's significantly cheaper than The Clear Cube and looks quite nice. I have some pictures below to give you an idea how much makeup it can fit.

Oh I forgot to add that these  DO NOT fit MAC paint pots unfortunately.

Good thing I only have one. But they do fit the Maybelline Color Eye Tattoo and the L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadows.

Exterior Look

Opened Up

My Lipsticks

Eyeshadows

On top of the cases I used a cardboard organizer that I got from Ross or Marshalls to separate my bigger and bulkier items.

Kaelan's birthday dinner

We have this tradition for us, that for our birthdays each year, we cook each other a nice meal.

For my birthday last year, Kaelan made an awesome Beef Wellington for me. For his birthday this year, he wanted a surf and turf burger.  This is a bison/beef patty with a lobster tail, with a French cheese sauce and homemade fries and onion rings. It turned out pretty good I would say, with few improvements for future since I've never cooked lobster before and I under-cooked it.

This is one of my favorite desserts that Kaelan made, his recipe, is a Chunk Pecan Pie (chocolate rum pecan pie). It is delicious!

Aria Dessert Tour

One of the things I wanted to do before Zoey's arrival is to do a dessert tour of couple places on the Strip that I have never tried. If you do a Yelp search for dessert in Las Vegas, one of the top rated one is Jean Phillippe inside Bellagio or Aria.  I started looking through the pictures and I was determined to try at least something from here. They have so many choices when it comes to desserts, from hot chocolate, pastries, gourmet boxed chocolates and crepes...etc.  

I wish I had more room in my stomach to try everything they had... and the crepe. Maybe next time!
 
Jean Philippe Patisserie

Categories: Desserts, Chocolatiers and Shops, Bakeries

ARIA
3730 Las Vegas Blvd S
Las Vegas, NV 89109

(877) 230-2742

 

Entire dragon made of chocolates, even the cherry blossoms too!

I forgot the name of this one, but it's a chocolate mousse covered in chocolate fondant toppped with a macaroon.  OMG it's a foodgasm in your mouth! A must try for a chocolate lover!

Nutella Napoleon, very light and fluffy!

Key Lime Pie

Chocolate covered strawberries, my favorite at $3.75 a pop but totally worth it.

We then stopped on the 2nd floor of Aria to get ice cream from Chill. Kaelan had the strawberry cheesecake and I had the mango passion sorbet.  We were both in a sugar coma afterwards but it was worth every penny. Our dessert tour came to about $40 total ($20 for the trio dessert, $10 for ice cream and $10 for the chocolate covered strawberries).  Then Kaelan picked up a little gift for Zoey at the gift shop, as you can see here.

Mango Passion Sorbet at Chill.