Good morning everyone! So today marks the very last day of
our little Tasmanian holiday guide. I hope you've enjoyed reading so far. I know the posts have been ultra-lengthy. But there was just so much to share! Too tough to squeeze into a short paragraph. Anyway here goes, our very last day in Terrific Tasmania!
No surprises, we started off a little sad (SO not ready to leave!) and cheered ourselves up with yet another delicious breakfast at Jackman & Mcross. Haha. Told ya we loved that bakery! Needless to say, food was excellent once again. I'm starting to wonder if they even have mediocre stuff there. Before we left, we bought extra tarts and cookies for our long drive home. Our plan for the day was to spend our morning in Hobart, have an early lunch and slowly begin our drive up to Devonport where we would board the 7.30pm ferry and head home to Melbourne.
After breakfast, we decided to walk around Hobart city one very last time. We popped by
The CWA Gift Shop and bought a carrot cake, along with a cute crochet hot water bottle pouch. The old ladies running the shop were so cute and wrap everything up super nicely. I asked if I could take some photos and one couldn't hear me. I had to repeat several times and when she finally heard me, we both had a little laugh. Cute old lady!
While in the area, we found
an amazing Map shop. Darren and I, we've always wanted a giant map. So walking into the shop was pretty much an experience for us. Maps everywhere! Large maps, small maps,old school, new, laminated, framed, everything! If you're after a giant map, you now know where to find one. We spoke to the shop lady before we left and I vaguely remember her mentioning that they can ship interstate. Apart from cute CWA ladies and the amazing Map shop, we also found ourselves in a knife shop (how interesting!) and a funky gift shop where everything in there kind of cracked me up. Darren bought himself a
'Where's Wally' cup. Funny enough, he was totally decked out in his 'Where's Wally outfit' that day. It was totally coincidental. And yup, Darren loves Wheres Wally. I think he looks a little bit like Wally himself! Especially when he's wearing his glasses. Tall, skinny stripy!
For lunch, we drove back to the wharf for ...Fish and Chips! Yup! Our 6th or was it our 7th one throughout our trip. You see, by that time, we were
pretty fished out from fish and chips. But then we told ourselves, it was a case of 'Now or never!', at least not until we returned to Hobart again. Hobart's seafood was tooo good, we just had to have it one last time. We bought ourselves a pack filled with scallops and prawns. Darren bought fresh oysters (he loves his oysters) and we pigged out in the car. Because we were so sick of battered seafood, we ended up stripping away all the batter, throwing out fries and just ate all the seafood. We wished they would sell grilled ones instead of heavily battered fish!
After our seafood binge, let me just say, I've truly well hit my quota for fish and chips and oysters for at least a year I think. We've been back in Melbourne about 4 weeks since, and I'v yet to touch Fish and Chips or oysters. Not for me, not now at least. Give me another month or so. Heh!
Driving off Hobart, we said our sad goodbyes to the cute little town. Fun times, fun memories. We promised to be back! We headed towards
Richmond, which wasn't too far away so we arrived shortly after. There were some bits and pieces interesting about Richmond. We chose to visit the
Old Hobart Town Model Village Museum. It was pretty small, and I wished it was ten times bigger. But I must say, it must be quite an amount of work that went into building those tiny little figurines. Lots of dedication and patience involved!
While we were at Richmond, we came across lots of other interesting gift shops filled full with bowls and boxes made from Tasmania's famous Huon Pine. There was also the lollie shop where we bought and shared an ice cream. Oh and I also discovered an
Old time portrait shop, of which Darren had to drag me away from. It was a shop where you could put on vintage costumes and have your photo taken, vintage style! I know, it sounds so cheesy but I can't help it! Love these sort of wacky stuff. Haha. I almost talked Darren into taking a portrait but due to time constraints, we had to rush off, and head towards Devonport. Sigh! No funny portraits of us then. Maybe next time!
Back on the highway, we munched on our treats from Jackman and Mcross. It was a bad idea as it made us miss the bakery immediately! But well, we distracted ourselves by spotting
Silhouette sculptures, interesting
topiaries and several op shops. I really wanted us to stop over for photos but we just didn't have time. The sun was setting pretty quickly and we were just too worried we couldn't reach Devonport in time! On hindsight, we should have left Hobart in the morning just so we would have more time to explore Richmond and surrounds.
Anyway, one very last stop before we were back on the ferry in Devonport. We made it a point to drop by
Callington Mill, which was featured on Masterchef weeks ago. It was just about to close for the day so we quickly bought some flour and off we went. I can't remember which flour we bought now. We got two different varieties. But man, they were so good and so fine. I've been baking breads with them and the breads just come out so nicely, unlike the ones where I've used just regular supermarket flour. If you live in Tassie and have access to their flours, please do try some! Sadly, I don't think Callington Mill Flours are stocked anywhere else outside of Tassie. So too bad for those of us, outside of Tassie.
So yup, nothing much really happened on the last Day. Unlike our previous days at
Cradle Mountain and
MONA. It was mostly driving on the road, rushing up to Devonport.
Before I end my final Terrific Tassie post, here's a few pictures onboard The Spirit Of Tasmania. Could not, not post these! The ferry trip was after all part of our adventure. Even though I got quite seasick!
Once again, thank you so super much for reading, emailing me and leaving useful comments and tips. Indeed, Tasmania has so much to offer and I loved every bit of it! Our 6 days were all jam-packed and filled to the brim with activities. There were lots of fun and laughter involved, a perfect getaway right smack in the middle of busy-ness. Darren and I are already looking forward to returning some day soon. We'd love to head to the West side this time round! We've never been there before but we're pretty sure it'll be as beautiful as what we've come across thus far. Thanks for reading once again and I hope you've enjoyed every single Tassie post! See you back here soon with all my art-making adventures.
THANK YOU TASMANIA FOR BEING SO AWESOME! XO!
As promised, the rest of the pictures from my little rhubarb scarf lookbook. Just spoke to my seamstress today and she's done with hemming. So it means they'll be ready for sale in a bit. If I get my act together, they'll be online end of next week! Been so busy teaching, working on my other art stuff, packing ice cream orders, so I haven't exactly had much time. Will keep you guys posted. Thank you!
My new rhubarb silk scarves coming soon to www.handmadelove.bigcartel.com. It was a little hard to take photos in drizzly rain. It was cold and I needed to pee too! So what you don't see in this picture, is me with my legs all crossed. Haha! This shot was a 'alright let's just take this and run!' sort of shot. We took it just to test out colours but somehow out of the 101 other posed, proper photos we took, this random one ended up being my favourite. Raw, spur of the moment, funny and not posed. The only thing I'd wish was better was probably the colour. Somehow the scarf appears a tiny bit duller than the actual itself. But yup, still, it's my favourite shot of the lot. I hope it makes you smile! I'll upload the rest of the other photos in the next few days. Similar to my banana scarves, there's only going to be seven of these scarves available. Thank you! xo
My ice cream softies are now stocked online. I only have a few available in each colour. As we speak, there's only 1 chocolate, blueberry, mint and vanilla left. So do hop on over and get yourself one if you're thinking of doing so. Thank you so very much! Have a yummy weekend : )
Hooray! Handmadelove is now stocked with some very limited new goodies. Emily Green x Dawn Tan necklace (Created based on colours from this painting) along with my latest funny banana silk crepe scarves! I've been wearing my scarf out these days and I keep getting told by people... "Are those bananas!? Oh my! How funny!" Not trying to blow my own trumpet, but these banana scarves have really been quite good at bringing on smiley oohs and ahhhs. Haha. Anyway, do take a minute or two to check out my new goodies. And of course, there's still more ice cream pillowcases, of which, I have got 3 ready to go right now! My pillowcases are all made to order so there's usually a 3 week wait. But if you order one tonight, your order gets shipped out within 4 working days!
Hello everyone! Just thought I'd let you know the good news. Phoebe Munro, owner and extraordinaire of the AMAZING After Store has decided to keep my giant carrot up a little while longer! It was originally meant to come down a week ago, after Look Stop Shop ended but well, everyone loved having it there. There's been lots of people standing outside taking photos. Phoebe even ordered a bunch of yummy felt carrots specially for her store so one can take home a carrot too! So yes, my Giant Carrot will continue to be at After for a wee bit longer.
Over the weekend, Darren and I managed to do a little impromptu photoshoot of my upcoming scarf collection. Well, it's not really a collection, considering there's only going to be 2 designs - A banana scarf and another rhubarb one. But I have decided to call it a mini collection. Sounds classy and like Darren says 'Professional!'. Haha! So here it is, the full lookbook for my Banana Scarf. Rhubarb ones coming soon!
Scarves will be made available first at my Some:space pop up shop next weekend. Post- pop up, they will be on my online store. There will only be seven of each scarf design available. Thank you!
Fresh from my super special amazing freezer, my Ice cream pillowcases are now available in my online shop! So far, orders have been flying out the door. I've had to change my print order thrice. Seems like everyone likes ice cream! All current pillowcase orders are now being 'frozen' and will be ready and sent out in about 2 1/2 weeks' time. To date, some have asked if I ship overseas. Yes I do! In fact, I ship anywhere. Even to Greenland if anyone wants. Who says Inuits can't sleep with Ice creams. They certainly can! Find out more about my shipping policies here.
