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One week to go, and a full on one, party with the class girls on Wednesday then close the shop doors Thursday, packing and carting all the stock and fittings we are keeping to our respective homes. This all with some trepidation but lots of excitement.....
My friday foto, I am all dressed up and ready to go.
This week the Expertise Craft and Quilt fair rolled into town, this fair has been very disappointing the last few years, but Phillipa and I arranged to have a day out just in case it had improved and we where very pleasantly surprised. As usual the first two rows where the same old same old so we scooted down the back and started from there. Lots of fibre art stalls this time and a lot of knitting yarns in silks, hemp, cotton in fact very little in wool, beautiful colours, vibrant or muted, I was tempted, but no, I am not going there. Same with the fibre art, I just love it, but don't want to do it, but I can always find products to incorporate with my mixed media.

I didn't buy all that much but got heaps of inspiration. Above is my purchases, floral papers, a beautiful piece of heavy cotton fabric with lovely roses on, the girl serving on this stall Studio Mio
had made an apron of this fabric and washed it and it has faded beautifully, very aged shabby chic, this stall has all sorts of things for making handbags and I always buy a lot from them. They usually have lovely Japanese fabrics also. Next to this fabric is more fabric, amazing hemp fabric from Goergina Mavor this was her first time at this fair, other than the hemp of which I bought two pieces in different shades of vintage white the indigo cotton piece was also from her. I did mean to go back to her stall and buy some of the gorgeous sheets of paper she carried, big sheets amazing colours, but never made it. On the Indigo cotton some fake cameos, great for fabric journals. Finally a book "the art of polymer clay", looks really good. After the fair we walked up to St Georges Terrace (the money area of Perth) for a bite to eat, the food at the fair is over priced and average in taste, hence heading into town for lunch, well worth it too. We had a wonderful sisters day out, it was a lovely sunny mild autumn day. We caught the train in then walked to the fair, area's we hadn't been before, should of taken my camera, oh well.....

Tomorrow, granddaughter Samara, Joanne and I are going to the Art Gallery to see the exhibition by mixed media artist from Hobart, Patricia Piccinini, above is one of her sculptures, and yes the little boy is a sculpture, isn't it amazing, I am so looking forward to seeing them in the flesh so to speak. I am now going to have more time to do this sort of thing.
Have a great weekend ...