15 Nov
Today was my friend Esther’s birthday so to celebrate she had a high tea at the Ivanhoe Collectibles Corner Tea Room. I hadn’t been before and was not disappointed!
The food (taken with my phone, excuse the quality)
My purchases!
Four gorgeous bowls:
Two embroidered doily’s.
Don’t you just love the swallows!
8 Nov
Last Saturday my sister, hubby and I went on a daytrip to Bendigo. I hadn’t been in years and it was lots of fun. We went on a walk of the historic buildings around town, ambled through the Botanical Gardens, had wine and Cider Tasting at Bress in Harcourt finishing off with a coffee in Trentham. Below are a few snaps, you can see them all on my Flickr if you’d like. I haven’t edited the Flickr ones though so don’t expect anything astounding!
This was part of a large mosaic on the ground in the Botanical Gardens.
Sweet little parrot in the Botanical Gardens.
Adorable gosling at Bress Winery
Mum didn’t like me photographing her babies!
The rest @Flickr
29 Oct
Oops, I missed yesterday and my excuse will sound really lame, because it’s the same one I used for missing Saturday- we were beer tasting! Well, hubby was beer tasting while I had a lovely chat with our friend’s mum who’s over from NZ.
Melbourne is such a wonderful city for it’s festive atmosphere.
Blogtoberfest – Post 25
11 Oct
Yesterday we celebrated my birthday a few days earlier and the gorgeous weather by heading out to Seville for Shedfest. A great day as usual. We took advantage of the free shuttle bus again this year. It worked a little differently to last year- rather than going on a set route it was a hop on hop off scenario which worked out ok, but last year did work better.
Wineries visited:
Wild Cattle Creek – Not many of their wines appeal to me, but they do have a pretty good Pinot Noir.
Kilarra – One of my favourites in the region. Their Rosetta and whites are fabulous.
Whispering Hills – a lovely place with nice views and a really good sparkling.
Seville Hill- Lots of good wines, their Rose is particularly good this year.
1. Shedfest Glass 2. Pav at Seville Hill (YUM!) 3. View of Seville Hill 4. The long walk up to Seville Hill
Blogtoberfest – Post 10
10 Oct
Today we’re heading off to Shedfest! They’ll be photos tomorrow but in the interim you can read about last years adventures at Shedfest here!
Blogtoberfest – Post 9
A redheaded lass called Ren, located in Melbourne, Australia. Likes to make, cook and grow things.
A few weeks back I enthusiastically signed up for Pip of Meet me at Mike’s Granny a Day 2010. It’s taken me a little while to get started and there’s been a lot of pulling apart failed first attempts, but today it finally clicked and I made my first ever square! It’s wonky and my [...]
I spent some of this afternoon sitting in a sunny spot in the lounge room finishing the last of this quilt;
I really enjoyed working on this and it will be sad (in a good way) to see it head off to it’s new owner – a sweet little 18 month old by the name of [...]
Today we’re going to make a doily garland. It’s essentially a string of doily’s and paper circles sewn together.
You need:
1 packet of paper doilys. My garland used 32 (plus one extra for your circle template)
Christmas themed paper
circle template – cut the centre circle from your spare doily.
scissors
sewing machine, thread
1. Using your circle template (the centre [...]
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