My Best Friend: Art Friend

Today is such a happy day! I managed to visit ART FRIEND after work. I went to the Buona Vista one which was opened quite recently. Or at least, more recent that the rest. haha. It is a nice, cosy place next to the MRT station and there is an escalator leading up to the store. No down escalator though. So you have to carry all your heavy "loot" down after a fulfilling shopping time.

I was so so excited!!! My best friend, here I come!

My best friend giving me the warmest welcome!

When I get excited, I tend to overlook the quantity of items I am buying and just pick them into my little shopping basket. Exactly like how I order my Yong Tau Foo. Recalls...

Friend A: Jinci, 6 pieces of YTF is min number. You got count a not?

Me: Huh? Don't need to count la. Count already then not happy liao. Just take whatever I like. Later too conscious about budget then not 幸福 already.

(Me busy picking all my favourite pieces while replying my friend.)

Time to pay for my YTF...

Me: Auntie, 多少？

Auntie: 小妹来，六块二。

Me: orh, ok.

(My friends around me... O_O)

And that's how I made my name for being the YTF Queen. Anyway, back to my best friend :D. There are so many materials over in Art Friend but I'm quite familiar with most of the materials there already. I've been to the outlet at Bras Basah and Orchard. The layout is pretty much the same. Then I went happily picking my art materials.

A special mention goes to a paint brush I bought. The prices of the paint brushes are not that easy to locate. They have special tags and you have to refer to the coding sheet labeled near the brushes. Being the "anything goes" me, I just picked out a nice looking brush and went to the counter. To my HORROR, that brush cost me $7 plus bucks?!?! Of course I didn't buy it in the end. I immediately chiong back to the brush area and picked another more "inferior-looking" one. But that cost $2+ bucks as well. 

Thankfully, I am a member of my best friend! Of course, how could I not support my best friend right! If I'm not wrong,  members get 10% discount off the retail prices. Now comes the moment of truth.

How much did I spent??

For all the materials you see in the photo below, (plus 2 more secret items which can't be revealed as they are main components in the gifts I'm going to make), it costs me....

$49.90!

What a nice figure! 10 cents less that $50. Makes me feel a tiny bit happier as this odd-number pricing seems cheaper.

I wanted to buy FIMO clay, but apparently Art Friend doesn't sells it. So disappointing! But but but...my best friend knows me well enough. I found Sculpey!!!! It's the same as FIMO, but there's like ~4g more material in the pack and costs less! Only $3 plus dollars compared to $4 plus FIMO. YAY.

So here goes my happy art materials shopping trip after work. Cheers!