Showing posts with label exhibitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exhibitions. Show all posts

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Another day trip

So our third day trip/car drive this week was courtesy of my sister, who has a new car and wanted to hit Bendigo for this. Thank God I got to be a passenger for once! Bendigo sure put the weather on today, too, thanks!

I gifted my sister her 'horsey Tova top' after she saw this in my stash. It was immediately worn, and declared fantastic (yay!)



We went up via Lark in Daylesford first, to take advantage of The Sale. The MS shop next door was open too, apparently not usually open on a Saturday, hence me not checking it out before!

The tags read$1.50 per sheet, and $2 for the fabric on top. A chenille bedspread I'll photograph tomorrow was $6.50! anyone who purchased got a bunny or 2 fro free (over breeding of stuffed bunnies in that shop teehee)


The Lark sale increased the fabric stash, vintage and modern (yep Amy Butler and Denyse Schmidt made an appearance at $5 a piece!



a few more larger pieces to photograph tomorrow in the daylight, too.

After the exhibition we hit the town for a late lunch (it takes about an hour to get through the exhibition. You must book, it's very popular!)

Both ridiculously photogenic!


The book was a huge hit, I hop it becomes dog eared and well read! The whole exhibition was perfect for Little Miss, she had a million questions I luckily had help answering, and it's given her things to Google when she's bored!


Ridiculously huge meals, too!


Ahhh, tourist stuff!


Get you're butt up there to check it out!

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Unexpected review

I'm getting all ready for this great exhibition.
Having no idea what I'm making led some play in the kitchen yesterday.
I haven't played with the dyes for ages- a few years in fact! 
I still have the stash I got cheap at Spotlight- I'm still trying to find more of this brand, as it dyes double the amount of Dylon. And lets look at the colors....


This is Royal Blue, on a beige-ish tablecloth. I wish I could say I had editing skills, but seriously, I pressed 'auto-correct' and it came up this good! 

This one was done on the stove and simmered....


this one a bucket of hot water; 


 also a bucket of hot water. Not for very long either, as I had a kid
 nagging me to take it out!


(the bottom right doiley was a dark beige originally.)


I also had a box of Dylon from before they changed their packaging. On the stove constantly being stirred, it still was very patchy....


and whereas exactly the same batch of doilies went into the orange and came out uniform, this lot frustrated me a bit!


what do you think? has ANYONE seen the Uni-care dyes around? I've got a pot on the stove with my huge beige 'market tablecloth in it, can't wait to show you the finished product- it definitely won't be cut up!

PS Has blogger changed it's fonts? Or is it just me?