Art Exhibition

Brodie and I went to an Art exhibition in town over the weekend. It's part of the Ficifolia Festival. There are so many talented artists around. They even had a section for fibre art and wearable art. If I had known that I would have entered some of my crochet... oh well. Here's some photos of the artwork I really enjoyed looking at.

The family of Kookaburras is my favourite. They look so realistic!

This one was on a tile and looked amazing! 

The water looks so inviting. Especially when we were there at the exhibition. It was a HOT morning and we had been walking about town before we went to check out the artwork on the way home.

The galahs ^^ above ^^ are my favourite native bird. I had a pet one once who used to chat away telling everyone he was a pretty bird.

The eyes of the cat in this painting looks amazingly real.

The one above is a mosaic tile. (sorry it's not the best photo)  It shows the main area of the town we live in. I love it.

A Purple people eater hat - crocheted of course

The dress is knitted but the hat and bag are crocheted.

Love the combie van. 

Around Civic Park

Here's the final instalment of photos that I took last weekend at the Ficifolia Festival. 

I love how pretty Civic Park looks with the pond area.

I think we're very lucking considering its the middle of Summer and the grass still looks lovely & green here. We've been very fortunate with all the rain and cooler weather we've had. 

(I just hope that I haven't jinxed us now)

Ficifolia Festival Part 2

Here are some more photos that I took on Saturday.

A view of the stalls taken from the top of the hill by the football grounds

One of these days I will buy myself one of these. Heather, one of the ladies from the stall, lives in town & said she would even come over to do a demo for us if we wanted her too.

Look at all that sugary sweetness. Not good for my diabetes but a girl can dream. I did buy Angus a dummy (pacifier) though :D

miniature guitars - they look great don't they?!

I thought these were clever. They're made out of empty aluminium soft drink cans.

They had some fun stuff for the kids to do (and the big kids too!)

Angus had his eye on the panda but he wasn't able to win it. He was a bit disappointed.

A petting zoo - something the little ones really enjoy

How cute at the guinea pigs - there were 6 of them in this little enclosure.

I just loved that calf. It was cute!

Ficifolia Festival Part 1

Angus and I went for a walk to see the Ficifolia Festival's street Parade today. Well we went to see where they were setting up at the football oval and then we went off to the stalls that were in civic park. I wanted to go there before the parade was over and it got really, really busy.

The festival runs over 4 days every year February and it's always around my birthday. In fact I told Angus that it was very nice of everyone to honour my special day with a festival. It's very sweet of everyone to celebrate this way :D

I took LOADS of photos that I will share over a few posts because I don't want to FLOOD you with a photo heavy post. I did take around 30 photos. Way too many for just one post. I was thinking of making a mosaic with them but then you wouldn't be able to see everything properly.

This years theme was the Chinese Year of the Dragon. There were a couple of dragons in the parade but since we were already heading home at that stage I didn't get a good look at them. They also had a pipe bad. I LOVE me some bag pipes! It sounded wonderful. It reminded me of the times I watch the Edinburgh Military Tattoo each new years. 

If you want to see larger photos just click on them. They look better when they're bigger.

We just LOVE looking at the old cars.

Old Fire Engine & a Holden (there's a close up of the Holden further down the page)

Angus loved this one. Who wouldn't love a Mustang?

I wish my car looked this good :D

An old Holden convertible.

I don't mind the red one. I have no idea what it is though, oops.

I'm sure my sister Vicki drove a Valiant like this one when I was little.

An Impala. For some reason we get excited about seeing left hand drive cars :P

I can just imagine driving this one. It's my favourite out of these old cars :D

Just look at that colour! It's very nice :D

Another old Holden.

A Holden Station wagon. I quite like this car. I'm sure my parents drove something similar to this.

Speedway Car

Speedway car - I had to take a photo its in one of my favourite colours

I have no idea what this is but is old. I know I'm shocking lol

Stay tuned for more photos next week.

Just one more thing about the festival. Please remind me to never EVER go for a drive on the morning of the parade. The traffic was shocking.