On the Scrounge

I have had a busy morning this morning - I visited my local stationers and bought a ream of paper and some plastic wallet things for some trade packs and I managed to scrounge an empty box for paper. I also had a chat about pop up banners and should be able to get one for around £100 - this is something that I shall have to look into, I don't think that I will be able to afford one in time for the wedding fair.

The box has now been covered with some purple and white paper that I had lying around (a selfridges purchase) and I am surprised at my skill in covering the box and it reminded me of the days of watching Blue Peter as a child (now I wonder if they still make that ornament with bent coathangers, tinsel, jamjar lids and candles - you remember that christmas one that they featured every single christmas).

I have also been to the bank to deposit £100 in £2 coins into my business account - this is going towards the cost of the stand at the fair which is costing me £115 inc VAT. I shall be sending the cheque off for the fair later today.

The wedding fair will hopefully be exciting and I shall be attending on my own because my chums have cried off :( The show opens at 11am and runs until 4pm and they have managed to sucker some poor soul into getting married at the venue at 2.30pm - to be honest I think that this is rather tacky. The magazine that is running the fair is offering their own prize draw where Jacques Vert vouchers and tickets to the National Wedding Show at the NEC can be won.

I am still toying with prizes for my own draw - I am now wondering if I should offer a plan (basically a list of things to do and when they should be done) too or just leave it with the star prize of on-the-day co-ordination? Do you think that 3 prizes will be enough or should I offer more?? Decisions, decisions....

Its quite gloomy here today and have managed to blow another halogen bulb in my office (I shall have to get more bulbs and wait for a friend to come around to change them for me), I cannot cope without light and have remembered my daylight lamp that Access to Work and the University gave me when I worked there - any adaptions that I received I kept when I was made redundant LOL.