Thrifty Thursday

Craig and I both had Monday off - so I popped into a few op shops, did some errands and we had lunch out.

At the first shop I found this cute pot plant $3.

Mickey Mouse Tupperware dish $3.

Diamond painting $2 for Granu.

This wooden necklace didn't have a price tag, so the cashier gave it to me for free.  I'm thinking about removing the chain and making it into a brooch.

Frame $2 for my Disney picture ledge project.

Books Disney for crafting 50c & Gumnut babies book for Kristy $3.

At the 2nd shop I found this top $3.50 (half price blue ticket).

Earrings $3 & $4.

Book for Clay $3.

I found this moneybox $2 for Clay at the 3rd shop.

Books $3 & $2 each.

Another Disney Twisted Tales book $3 - I didn't think i had this one, but when I got home I checked and I do.

Christmas tree skirt $1 - I'll put this on my Disney tree.

Can cooler $3.

Purse $3 - I will gift this to Craig's mum :)

At the last shop I found books $1 & 50c.

And the most exciting finds....by sheer luck I was checking out and server answered the phone so I had a look in a section I normally don't look. I found a Disney book lego set in a bag. Then the lady was checking if i could use my rewards card and so I re-checked the shelf and found another 3 sets!!!  They books were closed so I took a gamble that most of the pieces would be in there.  When I got home I checked and only 3 pieces were missing  (plus they had the instructions)!  With my rewards card - they ended up costing me $5 each.

Wedding Flowers - Corsages & Boutonnieres

Wrist corsages for the mums and grandma.  These were special corsage slap bands that Kristy found online - what a cool idea!  The circle base made it a lot easier to glue the flowers onto.

Boutonnieres for dad, grandad, godfather and brides-man.

Wedding Flowers - Bridesmaid & Flowergirl Bouquets

The bridesmaid and flowergirl boquets - luckily they were the same designs for each.

Wedding Flowers - Bride's Bouquet and Flower Toss Bouquet

Bethany and Des asked me to do their flowers for the wedding - 

1x bride bouquet

2x bridesmaid bouquets 

2x flowergirl bouquets 

3x wrist corsages

4x boutonierres

11x table centrepieces 

1x bridal toss bouquet 

It was definitely a labour of love. The bride's bouquet was difficult with the cascade, I had to remake it a few times but got there in the end LOL  I'm really proud of the finiahed result and fortunately Beth loved them all :)  

Bride's bouquet

Bridal toss bouquet

Wedding Weekend

We had a wonderful weekend away for Beth & Des' wedding :)  We headed to Brisbane Friday - on the way down Clay had a chat with some army people wgen we had a wyuck stop on the hughway at Maryborough.  They put him up in the vehicle for a look around, gave him a meal rations pack and some other little goodies - he thought it was fabulous:)

Clay with his ration pack haul LOL

We had dinner at the pub downstairs of The Brook  where we were all staying.  It was so lovely to have a relaxed evening to catch up with everyone before the weddimg chaos.

Saturday was the wedding  - I will share more pics once Beth & Des have seen them first.

Post wedding celebrations- dinner at the pub again

This morning we met up for breakfast before all heading home.

We decided since we were so close, we would head to Amberley RAAF base to do some plane spotting.  Unfortunately there were no planes, but Clay got to see a F11 up close.