Baradine - Saturday night.

 Saturday night is theme and party night, well dinner and then back to sewing if you want to!! 😁 The theme was Winter Wonderland in the Warrumbungles. 

One of Australia's best kept secrets, Warrumbungle National Park is a haven for stargazing and hiking. Explore majestic bushland and unique rock formations by day. And by night, take in the wonders of the universe at the nation's only Dark Sky Park.

People have such wonderful ideas of what to wear on this night

Janice and Jo

Kylie, Lou and Lianne

Mary 

Two starry snow drift nights

Snow people

Night sky and a star

Mmmmm...showcasing Raewyn's salt and pepper while preparing the baked potato for dinner

a collection of snow people

Elsa and the starry night

warm winter revellers

another warm reveller

two penguins on parade

a star and Warm Winter Warrumbungles lady

snowman and Elsa

Dark starry night and a snow person.

Happy stitching.

Baradine

 Scrub Stitchin' is based at Baradine at the Agricultural Show Grounds, called Camp Cypress.

Sewing and chatting and comparing notes

I made the blocks for a 12 fat quarter quilt and had lots of help getting the blocks in the right order for sewing together

these photos are out of order as Di had her beautiful butterfly quilt laid out first

One evening looking for the sunset, it was heard to stay out long as the mosquitos were in large numbers and large size!!

Not a good photo, but our goodies bag

which contained these goodies

and the yellowish bag contained these goodies for making a Kwandi quilt, which Jo taught us how to do.

I went out for a walk one afternoon - braved mossie attack!!

these lilies were flowering everywhere, they must have enjoyed the rain

We had the traditional photo shoot on Saturday with the whole group

It was a bit bright looking into the sun!!

then the ladies who blog

and then some random photos

I photo bombed!!

we look a bit determined here 😀

Wonderful time with wonderful people.

Happy stitching.

Last Tiki tour day

Today we drove from West Wyalong to Tullamarine airport , we had a cuppa and slice at Narrandera,  then carried on. Lunch was at Numurkah 

Petrol stop at Jerilderie 

And then carried on to Tullamarine.

We have had dinner at the hotel we are staying at, they are used to Coeliac people here thank goodness

 Raewyn had gf pasta with gf pasta, zucchini pesto, stracciatella (cheese) and olive crumb!! I had risotto with peas and asparagus. Very nice! 

Guess who was playing near the lifts!! 🤣😅

Blurry but fun to me!!

Home tomorrow.

Happy stitching.

Bus tour of Lightning Ridge

We were collected from our accommodation in the morning and driven around town and then out to the Opal fields

Views from the bus were like this

Our first stop was for morning tea at one of the pubs

It was a bit like Mad Max country

Nothing is wasted out here and the doors from. Cars are used at sign posts

Again I will fix this at home, this is the bra tree  -  fixed

Fossicking in the dirt heaps, we found tiny bits of opal

Our second stop was for lunch at the Hilton

Lunchtime

Chooky and Peta met us at lunchtime

Then we headed off again

Next stop the War Memorial, they get 200 here for the ANZAC service, 2 up is then played here and at the local pubs. 

Our last stop was Club in the Scrub

Once again I will fix this at home  -  done

Our last stop was Stanley the Emu, who was commissioned for another town in WA, but was bigger than expected and too hard to transport so remained in the Ridge. 

He is made from VW car pieces. 

All on all a great day out, we learned south and had a lot of fun.

Off to prepare for another day's driving to Melbourne. 

Happy stitching.