to op or not to op

I DO love a good bargain. My entire wardrobe is full of fabulous finds from the op-shops near and far. For a while there I felt I had lost my magic touch. I scanned the racks fruitlessly and had to learn to live with the plunders of former raids.
Recently, despairing over the threadbare nature of some of my work duds, I went back to looking for the more mundane black pants/skirts etc. Oh glory, suddenly over the course of a couple of weeks I had replenished my work wardrobe AND added a few new staples.
Today, I dropped into Spotty for a couple of necessities and then a little further afield to check the possibilities at op-shops.
I'm not a big one for special china, but I found this plate and just loved it! Then I found these beautiful placemats and couldn't leave them behind.
Feeling pretty happy. I also found a couple of long-sleeved girls tops for Pepper (who swears she has NO clothes to wear) Yippee.
We celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary yesterday. When I say celebrated, I mean I said to D "It's our wedding anniversary" and he said "I haven't done anything for you" and I said "Me neither"
So we spent the afternoon dog-proofing my Dad's backyard.(where we got married)and then hit Victoria St for a late lunch of Pho and rice-paper rolls.
Later we hung out at a neighbours backyard (mid demolition)until it got dark, then cooked jaffles in the bonfire with a beer in hand.
It was a fantastic day. Kids even chose to forgo Gladiators to keep jumping on the trampoline. My heart sang.