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Here’s this week’s quick pick of internet finds. As usual, good things come in threes…

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Weddings

There’s no denying that weddings can be expensive. So this week’s wedding quick picks are all about saving money.

♥ The Knot Australia has 30 ways to save money on your wedding.

♥ Polka Dot Bride has some great tips on making your budget for flowers go further.

♥ Offbeat Bride has a cost-saving suggestion for those of you who are competitive sporty types. Why not use your race numbers as table numbers?

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Art & Design

♥ There is something truly brilliant about oversized things. Over the course of his career US Artist, Robert Therrien has produced a series of sculptures of enlarged household goods scaled up to three and a half times their normal size. His works include tables, chairs, and stacks of vintage restaurant plates.

♥ The Royal Museums in Greenwich, England have done a wonderful thing with their restoration of the last surviving tea clipper ship, the Cutty Sark. The ship is mounted in a way that makes it appear to be sailing through the pavement. You can go on board and even have a cup of tea in the cafe that sits underneath the suspended ship.

♥ Anatomy lecturer Dr Claudia Diaz, who is based at RMIT in Melbourne, lets her students combine art with science by turning a willing volunteer into a living depiction of anatomical man. Note: This link will take you to a YouTube video that will play automatically.
   Via [My Modern Met].

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Random Asides

♥ I’ve been doing some research into the history of our quirky old building, and have come across the geeky wonder that is the National Library of Australia’s Trove. It’s a searchable database of over 300 million books, images, newspapers, maps and more. Many of which are online. Needless to say, I am in history geek heaven.

♥ The Brisbane Writer’s Festival starts on Tuesday. There will be lectures, public readings, workshops and lots of other fun writing related stuff, some of which is free. It runs until 9 September 2013.

♥ I’ve just found out that we have a new chocolate shop in Brisbane. Couverture & Co. opened its doors on Enoggera Terrace in Red Hill on 17 August. Now if only we still lived around the corner…

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That’s it for another week’s quick picks. Have a great weekend!

~ Pav

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P.S. We don’t receive payment or gifts to list products or services in our Quick Picks, we link to stuff because we like it.