Fabulous fete finds

Brunswick South West school fete is always a winner, I always head straight to the 2nd hand stalls in the hall and find some great bargains.
This year I found some terrific items for work, I was super excited to find this rocker board,which has been on my wish list for a while!
Of course the only down side is I then had to carry a heavy wooden rocker, large play mat, and bag of books, puzzles, games & cd's around ( lucky I had Tigerboy with me to grudgingly help!)  - we had to make a trip back to the car to unload, then go back for a second look!

Fete finds and a garden update..

I managed to get to 2 fetes on Saturday- the church near my house had their annual fete on in the morning, then we travelled across town to my neice's school fete for the afternoon. Some kitchen goodies from the church fete-



Balsamic onion relish, red pepper relish and quince jelly (of course!) plus a sweet pot holder which caught my eye.
And some craft books -






2 near new Usbourne craft books, I will probably give to a friend's daughter, and a classic children's sewing book from 1970. I rather like the ghost hand puppet, and the elephant cushion (shown in bottom right corner).
2 origami books for Tigerboy- who gets the urge to try origami every now & then, & the house gets overtaken with interesting origami creations!






Can't you just tell this one was published in 1984?!





The loud fabrics, the Princes Di hair cut, the wide sleeves...





And a few new cookbooks, the combined haul from both fetes-


Yes, there are 3 chocolate recipe books! I have already made a chocolate muesli slice yesterday, from the "Best Ever" book. The "Simply Heaven" book contains "75 Philadelphia recipes for lovers of Cadbury chocolate" - what a delicious combination!

Remember the seedlings I planted a couple of weeks ago? The lettuce are growing well, and the spinach is ready to pick and eat!






The snow peas did not fare so well, as one tub was attacked by birds digging in the fresh soil. I had put wire around the boxes but not covered in the top, so one tub was untouched, but only 2 seedlings survived in the second tub. So I have now planted a tommy toe tomato (also bought at the church fete) in there. Now I need to look up some recipe ideas to decide on the dinner menu for this week, might try out some of the baby spinach leaves!