another love story...

A couple of weekends ago, we set off to the sunshine state for my sisters wedding. 

They had an intimate ceremony and dinner on the Saturday and a Newlywed's picnic on the Sunday. It was such a wonderful weekend, with perfect weather to boot. 
You may remember me designing the invites a while back, well the whole wedding was a family affair, with everybody chipping in to help. We even managed to rope Mum's friend in to finish the bunting at the 11th hour.
On Sunday morning the boys went off to set up at the park, while the ladies got busy in the kitchen. At one stage I was breastfeeding Arlo, while giving orders and instructions to the merry band of helpers. 2 sisters, 1 Mum, 2 friends and an aunt. We made baguettes, sandwiches, cinnamon scrolls, fruit platters, antipasto platters, cupcakes... and don't forget the cake! 
Mum was in charge of the baking of the most magnificent cake. It was a 10 layer Red Velvet affair. How amazing does it look! I wish I got a picture of it cut.

Here's the cute couple too. 

Don't mind the knife wielding bride, she is really quite sweet.


Congratulations Melly and Zan! 

for my mother...

I haven't posted in a while... & my lovely mother who lives in the north of Queensland keeps calling me, asking when I will post. This morning she rang enquiring about the stash of plates I sourced while op shopping in the country yesterday.

I'll start the story from the top, so everyone can keep up.

I'm getting married in March next year, it will be a wonderfully crafted affair with many helping hands. My mother is in charge of food, which means plates and plates of antipasto type goodness that everyone can just help themselves to as they need. So I guess I should show her some of the plates her food shall be eaten from. The dear Samuel (husband in waiting) & I have decided to buy our crockery from the op shops as it will be a) super cheap, b) after the wedding we can keep what we like & then sell/donate the rest & c) it will look so much better & be more cost effective than hiring plain ol' plates.

So, where was I? Oh yes, plates.

Yesterday morning, my bestie & I took a drive through Castlemaine & Bendigo. It was quite an exhausting adventure, & we came home loaded with thrifted goodies, wool from the Bendigo wool mill & the best vanilla slice I've ever tasted. I was quite excited to find most of the plates below, plus many others for a mere 20c each! The gorgeous autumn leaf plate wasn't priced, so I went to the counter & asked old Dot the price... "Oh" she said, "Is 10c alright?". "10c!" I exclaimed as I reached into my pocket, I had 60c in my hand & thrusted it over the counter before old Dot could change her mind. I've also started a collection of forks for ease of eating, all of which were purchased for 20c.

So far I have collected 25 little side plates for people to eat from, 9 larger serving plates & a couple of little bowls. The totals needed are 90 side plates, 90 forks & numerous serving plates.

I'm am currently researching our next country op shop road trip... perhaps down the mornington peninsula.