Orana...A fabulous 4 Days

Thursday....arrived, unpacked, ate, talked, walked on the beach...
Friday.... walked on the beach, ate,dye pots, talk, ate,rusting,dye some more,ate fiddled.....
Saturday...walked on beach,ate, dye pots, stitched, willow , swap baskets , meeting,ate again ....
Sunday...walked on beach,ate,packed up,tidy up, ate, talked ,farewelled,took wrong turn finally got home after dropping in to visit Rowena    .
  We had an amazing time thanks Jude for organising and everyone else who participated ....

Roches Beach

Anne's neat little workspace

Cane, a little was used.

Yep that's me in the beach house

Pauline made little Anne and little Jilli.

Jude

feet

love this one

neat bundles of watsonia and cordaline

little willow and flax basket I made

lovely creation by Pauline Hunter

Here are a few pics.Already looking forward to the next one.....

Roches Beach...here we come !

I am off to Roches Beach near Hobart tomorrow for 4 fabulous days of creativity with basketmakers of tas.
I am packed  ( borrowed my daughters big car to fit it all in ) and ready to leave nice and early in the morning.
We will be doing some natural dyeing and rusting and whatever else we want.I am looking forward to catching up with friends and walking on the beach yeah !!! Oh and nocooking to worry about :)

Will have some pics next time...

Liebster Award Finally

Oh me oh my, Thank you so much Tracy Willans for presenting me with this lovely award.

The Liebster Blog Award originated in Germany and recognizes up and coming bloggers. It is meant to showcase those who have fewer than 200 followers. (Liebster means "favourite" or "dearest" in German.) This is done in the spirit of pay-it-forward. In accepting this award, the recipient agrees to:

• Thank the person that gave them the award and link back to their blog

• Copy and paste the award to their blog

• Reveal the 5 blogs they have chosen to award and let them know by commenting on their blog


No .1 My lovely daughter Katie and her little blog about lifes trials and tribulations,creativeness and motherhood

No.2.  Rowena at Oatlands Handmade      who supports Tassies artisans and wool growers .     

No. 3. Another lovely daughter of mine  who spins and knits and stuff Ali at  craft alley ,

No.4.Therese  here at her blog.    http://thereseflynnclarke.blogspot.com/  she creates the most amazing       moths from natural materials  

No.5.Lucky last    here  with Antra who shares her wood firing passion and interesting bits about her home in India.

Pics of Our Family Day

just love the colours in this pile of bark

the entrance to King Solomans Cave

one of many spectacular tree ferns in the area

a beautiful flowering shrub up on top of the Western Tiers in the World Heritage Area

ferns on a rock face

Family Outing

I spent a lovely wet day today with some of my children and grandchildren ...we took advantage of the 100 year anniversary of Maracoopa Cave   and went along for the free tours.
You can go see some pics here.  As I said it was raining ,but not inside the caves ....they are absolutely fabulous and we will return so we can take some pics inside (not allowed today..not enough time between tours.)
The formations and glow worms were awesome.
After lunch K.T and family left us so Kurt could play hockey and Em,Zac ,Summer and myself drove up to Devils Gullet and did the 30 min walk in the drizzle and fog !!! didn't see much really but will return another day in sunshine. It is amazing what is in your own back yardor not to far away.
I managed to pick up a few windfalls along the way and intend to do a little something with them next weekend at our basketry gathering at Roches Beach.

what i have been doing lately

lots of little pots, pate 's, spoon rests and oil/sauce bowl

just a couple of pics of some pots i have been making lately.

baby bowls ,there are pink ones too !!

easter done and dusted

summer and boys on good friday
these are a few little treasures i have found at the beach over the past few years...yep the teddy, puppy and pink stethescope.



we went to Petal Point for a few days and this is the sand castle i made for Summer (5)