I'm going to the Spring Festival!

I've been running around like a blue arsed fly all week, and it's all because I'm having a stall here this weekend!! I am pretty excited, although I'm still in the middle of packaging, tying things with string, and wishing I had some more time to find my prop of choice....some old hanging bird cages.

I have dreamt about having a stall at the Spring Festival for years, and it's practically my favourite garden in the whole of Hobart!  I love spending time at the Hobart Botanical Gardens.

Maybe I'll even see some of you there?!

I'm going to have lots of lovely things on my stall...hopefully it will be well received. I'll let you know more about all of that once the new website is up and running!  If you come along, you'll get a sneaky peaky all of your very own!!

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exquisite embroidery at the Hobart Botanical Gardens

I saw this wall hanging produced by the Hobart Embroiderers' Guild to celebrate Hobart's bi-centenary (in 2004), and it knocked my socks off...It's full of detail and richness, and the volunteer who let me into the room to show me, gave permission for me take these photos.  I told her I was going to blog about them, and she said it was ok.

So my little discovery has become yours too!

It was a group project undertaken by 26 members of the Guild, called 'A Walk through the Gardens’, it 'provides the viewer with a feeling of the ambience and beauty of the gardens'...

What little discoveries have you made lately?

This ol' gardener carved from wood, stands outside the visitor's cottage where the hanging is displayed.

Every time we pass him, we try to to figure out why he's wearing this attire for gardening.   It looks at though he's wearing his Sunday best.

Can anyone guess?

Happy weekend all

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