Vintaging from Canberra

Hi y'all!
Yvette, you asked me to post the Op Shop stuff I got with you in Canberra, so here it is!!

From back left:
*A woodland Pyrex plate $2, to match a cup I have in the same pattern! YAY! New tea time set!!,
*Square aluminium cake pan $3- cos Mum always made her Chocolate Raisin Cake recipe in a square pan, and whenever I made the cake I only had round pans so I would always cut the edges off the cake to make it a square before I cut it up! How funny is that! So now I will just be able to bake it in the proper square pan {score!}
*Fisher Price Peek-A-Blocks- $5 for a bag of 11 (couldn't find the rest for the pic! LOL!) Jaimeson just LOVES these blocks, and loves to shake the noisy ones! I love all the little things inside them, and i have been scouring other Op Shops for more (with great success!) They don't sell these any more in the shops so I was so pleased to find them in Op Shops!
*Pencil stool- $4. For Jaimeson! I loved it!
*Books- $1 each. I have been scouring the books at Op Shops, for Jaimeson. We've bought quite a lot and now I'm about to return some that weren't interesting! LOL! I don't really get time to read them while I'm at the shop, and if I get home and decide the story is crap, back it goes to the Op Shop. Consider it my money donated to charity (cos they get the book back- lol!)
*1991 Map of Sydney- $1. This is so fun to look at, and see how much has changed in 21 years! It's a lot too!! No M2, M5 east, M7 etc! Not sure what I'm going to do with it, whether I will cut it up or not.
*Vintage sheets- $5 for 2.

Not a bad haul! I loved Opping with you too, Yvette!!
:) C

Our visit to Canberra

Hello!
Well Jaimeson and I had a fantastic time in Canberra! Here are a few pics taken on my iphone, I'm so happy its always with me! Yvette has more pics on her blog if you're interesting in seeing what else we got up to!
We had morning tea at Silo in Kingston, which one of the guys at work is always banging on about, so it was cool to check it out! We shared a Orange Brulee tart and a Passionfruit Mascapone tart.... {Salivating} They were delicious! I do love a good eggy tart, so the Brulee one was probably my fave. Check out Silo if you're in the area. (It also reminded me of St Malo Bakery at Crows Nest which we went to for Alicia's birthday last year. Check it out too for a world of YUM!)
We went to Costco, which was fun to see what other people are interested in! I mean, how often do you go grocery shopping with someone else? Never? Yep! Yvette got things I hadn't bought there before but might buy e.g. An industrial sized bottle of Cinnamon (which I got when I went back today, I may be slightly enjoying Costco!!) and slivered almonds for really cheap. I think she enjoyed pushing Jaimeson around in his pram while I pushed the trolley too {smiles}.
We did some scrappin (which I'll share in another post, once I take pics of them!) and Yvette scrapped a page of Jai for me to take home too. So cool! I love having Yvette-made pages in my album, cos they are uber awesome. She's got fantastic style {truth!} She's such an inspiration for me :) And looking at her albums was a great way to kick me out of always doing the same looking layout!
We talked about vintage shopping, got inspired and bid on some things on ebay and etsy! And now we're waiting for them to come in the mail, hooray!! {high five!}
We walked Tassy to and from school a couple of times and hung out at home eating delicious homecooked food & choc chip cookies!
Tassy was an excellend "big sister cousin" for Jai too! See Jai holding onto the ring of "Skip" his toy owl in this pic (of us in our PJ's!) Tassy taught him to do that! Before this week he was just holding toys wedged between his 2 flat palms, and now he can grasp onto the rings! Great work Tassy!
Thank you sooooo much for having us Yvette, it was awesome to be able to come down and stay with you! We loved it!
Did you love it too Jaimeson? Yep {hooray face!!}
And we are sooo excited that we get to see you again at DP in 3 weeks! {double hooray!}
:) C

Back from Canberra!

Hi Y'all!
We're back from our fun and educational trip to Canberra :) Thanks Yvette, Dave and Tassy for letting us stay, feeding and watering us and chauffeuring us around to all the sites! We had an awesome time with you! You'll have to come to stay with us next time!
We drove down Saturday and I got to spend the afternoon Scrapping with Yvette while Will caught up on some zzzz's! I hoped to do 5 pages over the 2 days, but only managed 4.5 pages, but that's not bad! I love Yvette's style, and she makes it seem just so effortless! If you have ever seen her scrap it's like the page just comes together in the minimum of time! I'm still shuffling stuff around my page and she's got most of her's stuck down! I tried to slow her down with endless requests for cups of tea and snacks {giggles} but she still managed to finish her first page before me! Amazing {clapping hands in admiration!} Then Yvette amazed me even more by whipping up a delicious dinner of Quesedillas [spelling??!] somewhere in the middle of her scrapping. She's a machine.
On Sunday we started out with breakfast at Manuka then went to the Kingston markets. They had the most fabulous foods there (the other goods were only ho-hum) and I bought a delicious loaf of sundried tomato and fetta woodfired bread and some caramel macadamias. Oh soooo good! They cheat though- they give you a sample of warm caramel macadamias that suck you in with their deliciousness, it's virtually impossible to walk away without buying them! Best advertising ploy ever!
After the markets we headed off to New Parliament House (I guess after 22 years I could probably just call it Parliament House!) where Will celebrated Australia being the only country to eat their national emblem by pretending to eat the Roo on the giant steel emblem at the front of the building (see pic above)! We also checked out some of the inside including the House of Reps and saw the Magna Carta (yep we have one of the copies! Who knew?!) and the Prime Minister portraits.
We then checked out Old Parliament House (did you know there is a position called a Government Whip? Thats way cool!) and saw the peep hole into the Prime Minister's office. Dave took us on a tour around the embassies then it was up Black Mountain Tower for an aerial look at Canberra! It has the best view from up there, it's definitely a must if you are visiting Canberra! You can see all around our Nation's Capital, we could almost see Yvette's house! Thanks for pointing out all the sites Y & D, it was cool to see things from a bird's-eye view! Loved it.
It was a fantastic first trip to Canberra ever for Will (yes, very uneducated and unpatriotic!) and a great refresher for me, seeing as I hadn't done the touristy things for about 13 years since I came with my year 10 School Excursion (16hr bus trip from Grafton- that was a trip to remember!) Next time we'll have to come and do some of the museums!
Thank You Yvette for being a wonderful hostess and I loved getting in some scrap time with you too! I'll post the pages soon xoxo
:) C