My grand daughters are in the middle of a two week school holiday break, so it has been good to spend some time with them and catch up. Early last Friday morning we set off to Rusty's Markets, this is an icon in Cairns CBD, which sells beautiful fresh local fruit, veg., produce, and all manner of things from Friday through to Sunday. We like to get our supplies there as opposed to the supermarket so it's a weekly pleasure to go and shop.
After Rusty's we headed off to visit HMB Endeavour which is a replica of Captain James Cook's iconic ship of discovery. Endeavour is making it's first circumnavigation around Australia and is currently visiting Cairns. We had a fascinating time exploring the ship and we were amazed how small it is considering it accommodated a total of 94 sailors, not to mention sheep, pigs and poultry as well !!
Then off to find a yummy late lunch on the Cairns Pier, a lovely end to the day.
The Gold Coast Teddy Bear Fair I attended 3 weeks ago was a very happy event even though we had unusual cool and rainy weather for the first day. For some reason the photos I took have not come up clear enough for me to post but Kympatti will be posting photo's of the event soon. I'm also happy to report two adoptions this last week that were a direct result of the show, so that was a nice post-script.
During the week following the show I attended two workshops held in the Kympatti Studio at Broadbeach. The first was a terrific one day felting workshop with Geri Williams, entitled a Bunny in a Shoe ! and the second a two day workshop with Linda Benson. This was a wonderful workshop creating Linda's 'Gregore' who has open mouth, with tongue, open shut eyes, leather nose and leather trapunto paws detail, as well as extra neck and wrist joints. 'Gregore' kept us very busy indeed but Linda, in her inimitable easy going style, created a calm and very happy atmosphere. Needless to say I haven't finished my pieces but as soon as I do I will show you here.
The girls are off in a swimming camp today, the weather is just right for that sort of thing here at the moment. We'll have a couple of days to do things together at the end of this week, then its back to school for them.
Wishing you a beary good week,
Robyn.
