Royal Agricultural Show part 4

Here are some pictures of your regular show animals cows, sheep and goats.

We did buy 3 showbags, sweet, savoury and liquorice...mmmm

There is a large hall full of produce to taste, cheeses, chilli sauces, organic donuts, meat pies we watched being made, wines, jams and preserves etc.

We moved onto the Art and Craft Hall. Where decorated cakes, sewing, painting, knitting, homemade cakes and preserves are on display.

By this stage my foot and knee were screaming it was time to go home and as there were not to be any fireworks we headed for the train.

The weather was deteriorating and we made it home just as the rain started to come down. All in all we had a very pleasant day.

Royal Agricultural Show part 3

My favourite part of the show is the wood chopping (well I rather like the fireworks too but we were there on the wrong day so did not see them) .

These were fairly young guys but could split a log wide speed!

Royal Agricultural Show part 2

Mike's favourite exhibit at the Show has always been the pigs but since they changed the format some years back they are not on show very often the only way to see any this year was a novelty act of racing and diving pigs! These pigs seem to thoroughly enjoy their jump in to the pool!

Royal Agricultural Show

We went to the opening day of The Melbourne Royal Agricultural Show last thursday.

On the train into the city, swap trains on to the Show Express. It was crowded and as we alighted at the showgrounds we could tell it was going to be a long wait to get through the ticket gate! We had not pre bought our tickets so we had to stand in the queue and as subsequent trains arrived it got rather crowded on the platform.

Once through the turnstiles it was OK though.

We headed toward the dog judging arenas stopping on the way for scones and jam and cream at the Country Women's Association...they are rather famous for their home made scones. They were very nice though the cup of tea undrinkable:( After this we spent quite a long time watching different breeds of dogs being put through their paces in the judging ring. We fell in love with a cute French Bulldog puppy called Remy. Watched the Australina cattle dogs and could see where our beloved Morgan got his heritage. Then through the holding area to see all the other dogs waiting their turn to be paraded, these are not your average pooch these are the pampered spoilt type variety forever being groomed to within an inch of their lives!

Another chalked Cuttlebug card

I made this card today using the chalks on the cuttlebug background then I added some butterflies cut out on my Cricut Expression. I think they finished it off nicely. The top layer of butterfly actually sits up off the card but gets flattened on the scanner bed.

Chalk/Cuttlebug experiments

I have been reading through Mel's tips all 89 of them! You will find them under Techniques on Mel's blog.

http://melstampz.blogspot.com/

Thought I would have a go at using chalk on the embossed images and this is what I came up with. Thanks again Mel for the great resource you have provided.

Day 3 Noosa Jazz Festival

The Syncopators have been around since 1984 playing traditional/mainstream Jazz and wowed us enough to buy a couple of their CD's.
This young man and I mean young (he is only 16), has a BIG future, the only person we saw get a standing ovation at this years festival! He plays a mean guitar, won a TV talent show recently and has already been off to Nashville to record his first album! His name is Smokin' Joe Robinson.
Lucky last photo is one of Mike and I posing in the main street of Noosa :)