harry potter birthday party: preparation (shopping)

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the weekend before my birthday party, i went all over sydney to buy fabric and decorations
it was hectic
but lovely spending time with mum, who shared my enthusaism for the party <3

(no worries people, my actual address isn't on the map xD)

first stop was at lombard paper people
a little dusty party shop on silverwater road
it was hilarious because there were huge cardboard cut-outs of the harry potter characters for $25
and mum was full like, OMGOSH YOU MUST GET DIS!!!!
but i'm like, hell no. 
also love my mum, because she saw rob and was like, hey it's that vampire you like!
hahahah <3
we were there for awhile, fascinated with the halloween decorations


got a whole heap of raffia (for use as broomstraw xDDD), a couple of cauldron and pumpkin candy holders, some harry potter glasses (which i didn't end up using at. all.), a wizard's hat and harry's fugly plastic wand. 

then next stop was rhodes shopping centre for good ol' ikea and hot dollar
went to ikea first and got a whole bunch and random jars and candle holders 
and a pillowcase filled with batting that...was supposed to be for spider webs (fail.)
got barred by mum from doing serious damage because she was all like NO TIME!

then stopped by aunty dong's place to grab a whole heap of random stuff
got more jars and party decorations and stuff
most importantly, got the awesome qudditch hulahoop goals
funniest thing was when mum open a short black hair wig (centre-parted) and put it on my head
IT WAS SO HIDEOUS.


after hot dollar, we drove to spotlight
(stopped shortly at bunnings to see if they had any cheap ~broomstick-like wood sticks but no luck)
bought A WHOLE HEAP of fabric at spotlight for my cape, the brick wall and the photobooth background 
had heated discussion over which fabric to get for photobooth background
but we finally settled on the awesome tackiness that was the shiny velvet starry night background xD

final stop was at castle towers
but didn't really buy anything (from memory)
ended up getting all the food at woolies the night before :P

pretty sure i was upposed to be working on my job analysis assignment
but ended up painting for the party instead xD



donna.