Tuesday"s Treasure on Wednesday

The reason I was missing in action for TT was that I drove up the Range to Toowoomba to meet my lovely friend Fiona from BUBZRUGZ. You see we made a date a year ago for me to come and play and go to the Teapot Exhibition and visit Creative Fields exhibition as well. Toowoomba is just a picture at this time of year as it is also "Carnival of Flowers" time as well. The town is overflowing with gorgeous blooms everywhere you look.  Look at these Clivias. They were massed under this tree...I was excited because I had one Clivia in flower at home!!

We began our day with a tour of the lovely quilts and stalls on show at Creative Fields at Highfields and I got to see Fiona's gorgeous Butterfly Garden quilt in real time....wow! Her applique and embroidery on it are just beautiful ( I wish I had bought a bigger bag to snaffle it off the wall and bring it home with me)
We then headed into Town to the Teapot Exhibition and the sight of all that gorgeous china sent me weak at the knees....now there are quite a few pics. Not as many as I would have liked because (a) I was too busy talking to Fiona and (b) I was still too busy talking to Fiona.

We decided before we took in all this beauty we needed a Devonshire Tea. We had a tea & scones surrounded by vintage embroidered aprons and linen tea towels.

I was surprised at how many of the linen tea towels I recognised from my Mum and Nanna's collections. This is just a small selection of them... they were hanging from the ceiling and on the walls all around the hall.

There was a gorgeous display of all things 'Violets' in china.

Of course I had to have a photo of the Christmas offerings.

The most expensive piece of the collection is this sumptuous Silver Teapot on the stand....

We visited the Toowoomba Quilters quilt show and there were some very inspiring quilts there. Alas no photography allowed. We then headed off to a beautiful park for lunch...Laura Banks Park.

Fiona had made a delicious picnic lunch for us and we had it on a real Plaid tablecloth and real serviettes under the shade of the lovely trees and listened to live music.....just magic.

Our lunch was so yummy and very healthy and Fiona had made it look so gorgeous.....I have to admit to being led astray however and managed to devour several luscious strawberries dipped in chocolate. This is Fiona doing a quality control test before she gave one to me.

After our lovely lunch we did a tour of the park to look at all the beautiful flowers. I loved this bower of wisteria. It smelled so beautiful....

Fiona found some pretty pansies to perch next to.

To top off this wonderful day Fiona gave me a lovely gift package with a very cute 'selvage chookie', a mug rug which she thinks look like me ( I can certainly see the similarity in her ample proportions lol)handmade cards and handmade soap by Fiona and some very cute 'gingie' buttons. How spoilt was I.

I went home a very happy but tired little bunny. Thank you so much Fiona for sharing this lovely time in your town with me. It was such a very special day. I had the best time and I shall  remember it for a long time to come.

Blessings Michelle xxx