Reject Shop shopping

We came away in the caravan with no shampoo and then we found that "some-one" had taken the dish washing liquid out of the van and that same some-one has forgotten to buy yoghurt that was on his list and so we had to go shopping.

From the last time we were out in the van I realised that there was no serving spoon to dish up a meal, its a bit hard using a soup spoon to do it. Our cheap cutlery set was just that and when I spread butter with it last night I felt a crack. We bought a good set for home a few years ago from Aldi of all places, a good plain set with no craving on the handles, I said that we should keep an eye out for similar for the van.

Our list had serving spoon, shampoo, washing up liquid, coffee and yoghurt. This was our shopping at the Reject shop.

A cake caddy, always handy, this is for home, not the van, there is also pegs as although we don't need them, some-one complains about some of the pegs we have so I took the opportunity to get Warren to choose the pegs that he likes and wants to use. After all, I don't want any excuses so that he can't/won't do the washing and hang it out.

Coffee, three in one that we used to buy all the time in China plus an ordinary jar for home. A birthday card as I do have a birthday gift to send when we get home. Yay, a cutlery set just what we wanted, shampoo a big one for him and a little one for me and we bought two more decent sized cups for the van and sticky tape, that was not on the list and I am not sure why someone bought it.

All this for $43, cant beat that. Had to go to Woolies to buy yoghurt.

Washed cups and cutlery and tried one of the 3 in 1's, oh my goodness it was good.

Nano words at the end of day seven is 12542, I am about half a day in front.

"Dressing" the cups

Going on our picnic yesterday, I wrapped the cups in face towels. I usually pack tea towels around them ready for when they get washed up, that's when we are going camping/caravanning. Didn't need tea towels so opted for the small towels.

I hate tea and coffee in plastic cups, only use china crockery. Which brings a hassle with possible breakages. I had a thought, to make the cups their own cover, thinking esp for the caravan. I had a little green felt like fabric left over from making the cushion cover so this morning I set about it.

I measured several cups in the kitchen cupboard and decided that the length should be approx 25cms by 10 cms. Yes! I had enough to make four and I was sure that I could find enough buttons for four (ended up for three the same colour and one is blue but the size and shape are the same).

The covers should work to protect them from breaking if they happen to knock together and should help to keep the beverage hot or cold.

I needed elastic to attach the buttons to hold them around the cups. Damn! I have waist elastic which is two or three times wider than I want or I have hat elastic.Surely I have some normal size elastic, I don't want that much. I search through all my resources (I have several) finally the only place that there could possibly be some was Mum's sewing box that she gave me a few years ago.

What a mine field I don't often go there as I have enough stuff of my own but I found cotton on wooden reels, goodness knows how old they are. I really should go through it all. Just when I had about given up, in the bottom corner was a piece of elastic, exactly what I was looking for, except that it was sewn together to make a loop. Good grief, I think it was what I used to use to keep my socks up when long white socks were the thing. Again just enough if I was careful.

Here are the finished cup covers, the one in front with the elastic and button showing, great size for the glass mugs but I had forgotten that the cups are squat. At least I don't have to be concerned about breaking now only if some one drops a cup.