Lilly Cottage

Big red farm truck and Calypso music.

Perhaps a big red farm truck and Calypso music is a strange combination in text but in real life as part of the first Farmers Market at Old Petrie Town on Saturday, it was the best combination ever! It was bustling and exciting and there was music and art and craft and vintage wares....there was even a Gypsy caravan ( OK combi) and of course all the fabulous shops including Lilly Cottage were open to join in the fun.

Have a look at a few of my photos ( alright there are lots) and pretend you were there with me....ready here we go...

Do you need a little something to keep you going? What about this mini dutch pancake things.. I can't pronounce them or even try to spell it...they start with P and have a J in there as well....you need icing sugar and strawberry sauce too!

Moving on from the scrumptious food towards my favourite big trees ( see the Easter post), there are all manner of Fairy and Tree sprites to be found....if you look hard enough....and there is also THIS magical place...

Of course you must have helpers to carry your treasures, even if you have to pay them off with icy cold drinks and tiny tiny bits of gold...well that's what I told him anyway..

Back home again to Lilly Cottage. Can you tell we are getting ready for Christmas?

Hope you enjoyed our little tour, I certainly did!

ttfn Kiss Noises Linda.
 
 
 
  

Fabulous Farmers Market and Collectorama Fair this Saturday.

 

In amongst my packing and unpacking this week, next week and seemingly forever, I just had to let you know that this Saturday the 7th November a wonderful Farmers Market is starting at Old Petrie Town, Dayboro Road Kurwongbah Qld ( that's where Lilly Cottage lives too). It is new and exciting and run by the incomparable Peter Hackworth so it should be wonderful, fresh fruit and veges and flowers, fresh flowers...woohoo! It goes from 6am to 1pm and Lilly Cottage will open at the same time for this first market. I hope you can come and join us for a little while.

After I stock up on my fresh fruit and veg and some crusty bread and scrumptious cheese, I will be heading up to Nambour to the fabulous Collectorama, now I know I have told you before how much I love it, but I really do!

This is the last Fair for the year and it is from 8am to 2pm? I think, I can't find the piece of paper at the moment, I just know I am aiming to be there around 11am...oh the excitement, oh the tea cups and vintage buttons and spools of cotton and lace and those cute little vintage bottles and Heaven knows what other wordly treasures await.

You will need to head to the Nambour Showgrounds and remember to take a bottle of water, it is a very large market and you might get a tad parched.....perhaps your thermos of coffee and one of those pull along shopping baskets ( I have one of those they are great for markets, limits the number of times you have to send the Darling Husband back to the car).

It is going to be a busy and fun Saturday...my favourite kind, full of my favourite things....now if I can just find some of my clothing and shoes in these packed boxes I will be fine.

Have a simply wonderful day,

ttfn Kiss Noises Linda.

Now for the pictures of my Handmade stall.

You know I am still dreaming of the yummy cupcakes and strangely those metal cows from THE HANDMADE EXPO in the last post...I am a bit with Kylie from  A bite of country cupcakes I think...anyhoo here are some of the pictures from my little old stall...

Oh wouldn't it nice to be a cat sunning herself in the sun?

I have another fair this weekend and then after that I will be restocking and stocking my online shops at Lollishops this is my shop here It is called Kiss Noises . I will also be adding to this Etsy shop Here, Lilly Cottage and my new Etsy shop Lindaclaudettes when I have it all set up.

In the meantime, enjoy my little photos, I will have to leave them here for a little while as I am moving house and won't have proper computer access for a while, though I can read my comments and check my emails whilch I love to do so please leave me a message if you have time.

ttfn Kiss Noises Linda Claudette   

Handmade Expo done and dusty..I mean dusted.

With this wild weather we have been having in Queensland lately we are actually hoping for more than a sprinkle of rain to settle all this dust around. That being said it was perfect weather conditions on Saturday for  The Handmade Expo at Ipswich, bright and sunny, quite warm but not very windy at all woohoo! I do seem to have become quite delicate about trekking about outside though and uneven ground, big ants and slopes and I do not mix so my darling husband manned the stall most of the day whilst I wandered in and around the stalls in the cooler flater parts ( and had some retail therapy), I had the children in tow and they had THE BEST DAY EVER...undivided attention from Mum, lots of treats, sausage sizzles and amazing cupcakes and FREE jumping castle and basketball hoop shooting games and participation in a world record attempt!! Iwill do a seperate post of my display but thought you might like my 9 year olds photos of the day...these are the things he thought were wonderful..

He did a pretty good job and I just know that some of those photos were taken for me...he knows me so well.

I did take this last photo though..the next one, not the one above that was all his own work.. I did take this one of daughter 11 modelling the most divine hair ties made by Lisa at Cute as Buttons ( I will try and link you back soon in the meantime I hope Widget picks up Cute as a Buttons from the Warwick Expo), who gifted these to Miss 11 when we had a hair emergency and needed something to tie her hair back for the jumping castle.  What a lovely gesture and what gorgeous hair ties ( all their stuff is divine, I wish my kids were little enough to wear their gear) they haven't been out of her hair since.....though she had washed it and done her hair again because they would just be gross if she hadn't off washed it since Saturday....

 

They really are Cute As Buttons!

Be back with more my stall photos until then ttfn

Kiss Noises Linda 

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The best sneak until last.

Sneak Peek that is, if you have been playing along at home...this is sneak peak number 5 and these are really little sneak peeks...if I can restrain myself not to show you it all...I love these I had the picture in my head for a long time and it took more printer ink and some special fabric to make it work...that is all you get for now, details later...I do so hope I see you at Ipswich in the morning...I am the one with the really really red hair..I dyed it Thursday and don't think it would have settled down much since then.

Such a lot of fun fun fun...off I go now...I have to pack all this stuff into the car to head off to THE HANDMADE EXPO AT IPSWICH very very early in the morning...oh the children are going to love that...not!

ttfn Kiss Noises Linda

Handmade Expo tomorrow, sneak peek 4.

Well isn't the day flying along nicely today?....Sneak peek number 4 are you ready? for more nfo on the expo tomorrow and the HEAD SHOULDERS KNEES AND TOES WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT pop over to the Handmade Expo girls blog for a little look see...OK here we go...you know the saying pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and...

Smile Smile Smile..with a silly frilly bag it would be hard not to...agree?

ttfn Silly Kiss Noises Linda

Sneak sneak sneakity peek handmade goodies.

Yes I am still giving sneak peeks of some of my stock I am taking toThe Handmade Expo at Ipswich tomorrow...Saturday. This is sneak peek number 3 if you are playing at home....and I have more to show before tomorrow....

 

Oh I do so 'heart' making new creations....do you 'heart' them too?

ttfn Kiss Noises Linda

Sneak Peek number 2..

Oh I am going to have to time these so all the sneak peeks don't publish at the same time....where would the antici......pation be in that? ( me thinks I might have watched Rocky Horror a few too many times...there's a light...over at the Frankenstein place..there's a liiiiiiggghhtttttt burning in the fireplace) ah yes well I digress...here is your sneak peek number 2.

Puuurfect yes?

ttfn Kiss Noises Linda 

Head Shoulders Knees and Toes sneak peek.

Well here is sneaky peek number one for the goodies I have made to take to The Handmade Expo at Ipswich on Saturday morning.  You read all about at the girls blog HERE and about the world record attempt for HEAD SHOULDERS KNEES AND TOES...i AM GOING TO BE IN A WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT...YOU SHOULD COME TOO...but first here is my first little tempter....

hmmm scrumptious no?

ttfn Kiss Noises Linda   

Are you ready for your close ups?

Of course I am not talking about personal photo close ups though as my lovely friend Kris from Tag Along Teddies has told me, we should all face up to the camera with our best grin on our face so that if something should ever happen to us and so our grandchildren can remember us, there are lots of happy photos for them to enjoy.

We want people to know that we love life and that we had lots of adventures, or had wonderful gardens or like to cook up a storm, lovely friends to share our life with, crazy passions like painting or stitching or beading and so on. So next time the camera comes out, flash those pearly whites and give them to something to smile about.

Wow that was deep for the photos I am going to show you...they are close ups though of some treasures at Lilly Cottage.

Not at all scary were they those close ups? Be back with more another day.

Hope your day is truly scrumptious..ttfn 

Kiss Noises Linda