A Family Wedding Friday Estimate!
Ester Bloom
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I have no idea…

I started off the morning at my endocrinologist’s — $15 copay to hear that my bloodwork is good, talk about vitamin-taking schedules, & discuss protein-intensive, savory ready-to-go breakfast options (since I can’t do sweet in the morning, smoothies/protein shakes are out.) I now have legit doctor’s orders for egg muffins/muffin tin omelets.

Tomorrow, we’re going to wander a markety thing near our house, I don’t need succulents in concrete planters or any of the other crafty things they sell there, so I’ll cap myself at the $10 cash on hand for some snacky things there. We’re going to stop by Husband-elect’s mom’s to get addresses for his family/family friends for wedding invitations and figure out the plan for his brother’s birthday next weekend. Then tomorrow night I’ve been invited to a neighborhood Pampered Chef party which I will probably go to(Husband-elect’s aunt will be there as well), but I don’t really need ANY kitchen things, so I don’t foresee making any purchases.

Sunday I have an recipe for roasted eggplant and chorizo I’ve been looking forward to making all week, so I’ll make that and probably egg muffins while I’m at it. Egg muffins will necessitate eggs-I have some in the fridge, so I’ll check those first, but I don’t quite recall when I bought them, so we’ll say $2 for new eggs, and then I’ll just round up to $20 because that’s how much I spend at the grocery store, it seems. Might end up lower, because I have a giant package of ground beef for next week’s meals.

Sometime this weekend: Our local craft store is running a 23% off everything you can fit in a bag sale, so maybe we’ll go pick up materials for wedding centerpiece terrariums(11 weeks til the wedding, how did that happen?) and we also need to spray paint some dinosaurs. We need moss, succulents, vase filler, and plastic-friendly Krylon chrome spray paint($7.24 per can on Amazon), and I have no idea whatsoever how much that will all run. Maybe $50 for non-paint materials? Does anyone crafty have any suggestions for one-pass painting of toy dinosaurs?

Estimate: $95, but I’ll round it up another $35 just in case I underestimated the cost of terrarium materials or I cave to the Pampered Chef madness — $130