Ready to Rumble

I've spent the last 5 hours setting up for the Woodstock School EPIC Jumble Sale 

in the morning.

Prepare to be amazed Hamiltonians, if you come on down. (7.30 - 11.30am)

WOWZERS we have shite-loads of stuff for sale.

This is about 1/3  of it. It took ages and LOTS of helpers to bring it all from the storage sheds..

Phew where do we start?!

I'm on the toy section. It was overwhelming.  I am going back over at 6.15 tomorrow to finish the set up of all the toys.
Lucky we live backing on to the school field. Yuss.

 I shall get up Dawn's crack (snicker)and slither over there. 

My kids had  a wonderful time mucking about with all the other kids while we set up. 

See all those books? There are some AMAZING ones in there.. I hope lots of book collectors come. 
There is actually loads of everything.
It's mind-blowing, in the best possible way.

I love the whole scene, man. 
It starts with people
* Recycling.
* De-cluttering.

Then others come along and
* Get stuff they want/need.
* Get a bargain.
* Have a lot of fun hunting.
Awesome. 



BAKERS DELIGHT vouchers for 
Sue @ Living the Good Life
Jess B @ Just Ordinary Us
and 
Georgia-Rose @ The Velvettes

Send me your actual addies and I'll fire those vouchers out so you can get those buns in your gobs before easter!email me via the ABOUT ME or profile thingy up there

Happy Days
x

Easter-ly

 It's arguable I know, but for me, a good hot cross bun is  better than chocolate eggs.. 

Marginal call, coz I love chocolate eggs, especially the marshmallow-filled ones.
(side note - I looked EVERYWHERE in London when I lived there and I couldn't find a single one of those)

YUMMY

THESE are the king of Hot Cross Buns right here.
Bakers Delight gave them to us to sample (yeh we'll be this type of guinea pig ANY time you need us!)
Chocolate variety and traditional fruit.

PERFECT for afternoon tea, with blueberries and a cup of tea (essential)

 For the kids, the winner was the chocolate 
            (no surprise there!) 

For me, both varieties were absolutely delicious. Soft and tasty.

So good. 

I have 3 $10 vouchers if you want to sample your own.. Leave a comment on this post and I'll pick 3 out tomorrow night. Randomly. Don't want it to be a BUN FIGHT or anything. tee hee
(NZ commenters only of course sorry)

Happy Days.

Operation Catch up on Op Shop SCores

The following scores are from oppies and garage sales the week before last!

Tardy-arse.

Fondue pot in mint condition. I have several of these so am gifting this.
Jumble Sale $1

JOHNSON cake plate etc in original box. 50c from the Girl Guides' garage sale, bless them. There wasn't a brownie or a girl guide in sight. Just the mums. LOL 

I was drawn to this 20cent-er. It's not my usual style but I like the lanterns. So Iris can eat  off it for a thrill.

FAB orange ice bucket. $2. I love it. 

Iris and I love this funny flamingo pincher thing. It has a squeezy handle that  opens its beak.  I have a thing for flamingoes.

* Plastic weave basket (obvs)
* Cute little apron
* toiletries bag - I LOVE these things.
* tea cosy and Alaska moose
* table cloth more than I usually pay $4
* very cool train sheet, that would be better made into something.
* yellow cardy for Iris (I want one in my size)
* Mint condition Kidston-y PJs that I gave to my sister-in-law coz they are her size and  her style..
* A brilliant cutlery set. Each individual piece had a 20c price tag sellotaped (round and round) to it - which took a good while to get off lol,..

Curtains ($2) from jumble. I think I'll put some elastic in and they'll be a skirt. (the hills are alive with the sound of music)

LOVE this necklace .. the red one was new too.. Thank you Vinnies.

VERY 80s dolly clothes that were in a free box. The calypso woman has shell bead earrings sewn on. Gold.

Large piece flannellette 

I went into Vinnies twice on sep days before I decided to actually get this set. Swimming accessories, I do believe. I think they deserve their own post. I don't know why I dallied. Great orangey yellow colour. 

tea towel of Northland. 

Great wrap around skirt. 

I am in love with this. I have to hide it from Iris though.

It was $2 at the Labour Party fundraising sale. Bloody brilliant. 

So there we have it.
 Linking up to world wide thrifty links  
the nifty thrifty
the thrifty groove
blackbird has spoken op shop show off
Sir Thrift-a-lot Thiftasaurus
remnant


(For those that enquired - the gig wasn't a big deal, but I DO love a good warble! Kids have stifled my gigability somewhat but I occasionally get out and have a sing! Last weekend it was at a Cancer Society fundraiser Relay for Life, where I did a 45 min set.. My camera battery died just as I went on according to my official photographer (my son) but there might be some official photos coming through at some point on their site. )
Happy Days

HOT HOT HOT

SHEESH

this weather here is new to us!

Here in Hamilton the weather is typically unpredictable/4 seasons in one day

But right now there is one type of sky only...

The whole of the North Island has now been declared officially in drought..

My 3rd boy took these sky shots (and a whole load more) from his lower down perspective.
I quite like them

We've had parties to attend/create, stuff going on, op shopping of course (more posts to come of course)I've even done 'a gig' ...

..but mainly I've just been  chilling with my homies.
(well, trying to)

BUT it's HOT!!!
Would rather be on a tropical island somewhere
or at least at the beach
(My first attempt at an overlay ala Sarah who is the BOSS at it.. Excuse the skinny wrist etc!)

("Hello new followers!")

Happy Days
x

Recently Hunted and Gathered

Vernon Ward mirror, with my nostrils in it.

These are gumboots (wellies) but not as I know them.. they're made of light weight stuff as you can see. But totes waterproof. They're worth having a rainy day for. (not happening here - my region has just been officially declared in drought..)

Tin badges. 

ORANGE suitcase - boom!!! $2

* 2 nostalgia puzzles (early 80s)
* Little forks set in box
* Another view of them boots
* hand bag for me
* hand bag for Iris (chosen by Iris)
* cottons (obviously)
* Game - blast from the past. Very cool.
* A groovy picnic set that my kids will LOVE. I just need to find another one the same so I have enough!

Butter dish. I have been looking for one I like... found it! Has a middle insert thing that makes it easy to wash.

Scores!
None of this set me back much at all.

I'll link up to some thrifty linkies soon..

Happy Days to you all.

Counting Us In!

Today is CENSUS day in NZ.

I wish I had some 80s towelling sweatbands for Arlo and I to wear as we embark on the 8-form filling out mission..

I was thinking of writing OP SHOPPING for my profession, or maybe for my religion..

I wonder what 'The Wizard' of Christchurch is going to do this year to avoid being counted..
Other years he has sailed out to sea on census day, or moved to australia momentarily. LOL.
Heaps of op shop scorez to share right here...
coming up in another post...
really soon..

Hope you're all better than the queen.

Happy Days

AN oldie but a goodie

This is one of those catch up jumble rumble posts..

I went to a great Jumble Sale in November or December..

(St Marks Church if you're interested Hamiltonians)

This lot cost me under $10.

For realz. 

They REALLY knew how to do a SALE.
Huge tarps spread under gazebos with a 20c, 50c, $1, $2 and $5 area. WIsh I'd taken my camera.
SO GOOD. Just mainly boxes to rummage through.
Good old-fashioned fun.

Hawaii kitsch. That big pineapple walks. 

Box of envelopes (50c)
Cool carraffe (20c)
Plastic platter that looks like cut glass, and is SO useful. (50c)

* 3x melamine rose trays
* clothes for Iris the best dressed girl I know
(they also had fill a bag for $2 but I didn't photo that)
* table cloth
* Bizarre ragdoll clown, that I only got for the outfit!

A barbie with the funkiest hair-do any kid ever gave a barbie.

SERIOUSLY
I have coveted one of these
for YEARS
\ever since I saw one at my aunty's house.
This one works and was 50c.
STicky labels and everything.
SHeesh that is so much fun. I'm gonna turn into one of those people that labels everything in my house. Or not. 

Cute glass serving plate. 20c

I've mentioned before how I love OLD plastic baskets. They LOOK cooler, they feel much nicer in my hands.
And check the sky out in that mirror.
Dang we haven't had rain here for 6 weeks.
I am not used to this.

A 20c ugly table set that I KNEW my kids would get buzzed about... 

...see what I mean!!!!
Cute-ness.

(I still love the tag-popping thrift shopping song.

Especially this line:

"What do you know about rocking a wolf on your noggin?") 

That's not all that was in the boxes.. but I don't want to bore y'all too much.. 

It was a great, cheap sale..

I stashed the boxes in the garage until the other day when I finally photo'ed them.

It was a bit like christmas.

Speaking of sales, there are some EPIC ones around these parts tomorrow..

I might be in attendance.

(Who knows?!)

Happy Days


Linking up to Blackbird has Spoken for the op shop show off (although not op shopped but I think she'll let me off!)