Gumeracha Toy factory

I had seen pictures of this years ago and when I realised we were pretty close, 40 minutes away, it was put on the agenda to visit. It has the largest rocking horse in the world, I think.

The toys were incredible, all wooden and well put together. Luckily for us, our grandkids except one are too old for the ride on tractors etc. I did buy a nice chopping board for the van though, its a little one and of course wood.

Out the back there was a bush park with recused animals. We bought some food and paid our entry fee, $1 and proceeded to walk and feed the animals.

I was rather taken by this guys feathers and the colours were stunning too.

Warren feeding a kangaroo, at one time he put his front paw on my arm while he was eating. Very friendly.

They did have a couple of emus as well but they were behind the fence, I dont like emus.

My Christmas presents to myself.

A few weeks ago i completed a tote bag and sent it off to its new home. I liked the pattern and design that much that I wanted to make one for myself. I had bought two pieces of fabric at the same time with one for me, the fabric was on sale for $5 a metre, very good price as it was quilting fabric, anyway I bought half a metre of each. (usually around $18/20 a metre)

There seemed to be quite a bit of fabric left over so I made a shopping bag to go inside the tote and I covered a book as well, which will also be used/carried in the tote.

I didn't have enough black to cut the handles for the tote on the basis so it has the bicycle fabric for handles. The shopping bag has black handles which was cut on the straight and it has rounded corners at the bottom. i did have to piece to pieces together to get enough to cover the book/dairy, a couple of the wheels are a little elongated but from a half a metre of fabric, it was good value. i think there is enough scraps to make a coin purse as well. I love the colours and as this is the only bag i will be taking on our trip, it will get a lot of use. 

Thursday Night Shopping

This is something that I avoid, one because its busy and two because I do have other times when I can shop.

Tonight I went out as I wanted to find something in particular; I could have waited but at times I am not a patient person so I drove to the shopping centre. I did ask Warren if he wanted to come too, the look on his face said it all. I told him that he didn't need to come, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Last night we had a storm and it rained this afternoon and this evening and because of that, it was so dark, no moon or stars out.

I wanted to check out the new craze of adult colouring and I had heard that KMart had some books on special. Yep they did, so I limited myself to one (I did pick up a couple of others but no, one was enough to start). I haven't done anything with it yet except to flick through some pages, I got a patterns book which should give me more options regarding colours.

I will do a post later once I have completed one or two, it is supposed to be very therapeutic.