Holiday week 1 day 4 - Dandenong Market

Friday, after dropping hubby at work, I called at Dandenong Market - to pick up the week's worth of potatoes. I also took about 5-6 cross stitch pictures to a lovely lady called Lee, and spent a glorious hour picking out mats and frames. It may take me a year to pay it all off, but then I'll have another few pictures finally on the walls.

I envy Edgar's photos of his local open air market, so thought I'd take my camera to grab some colour and texture photos - pity you cannot capture the aromas of the fresh fruit ( possibly just as well, because some of the aromas of the great unswas hed of Dandenong may filter through!) The fruit and vegie stall holders were bemused as I asked their perm ission to take these photos - they couldn't understand that I was going to publish them to my blog for people in other states and countries t o look at.

I then called at an Op-Shop in Doveton, and met a lovely lady, Kate, with whom I have exchanged email addresses because I may just be able to help her on her quest for a particular quilt pattern. It will be in one of the 300+ magazines I picked up in January! I picked up a couple of old glass tumblers - one with flannel-flowers and one cutsie Koala - then toddled on my merry way when I accidentally fell into Spotlight at Narre Warren. Here for $11.50, I picked up the broadcloth fabric to use as the background to my trees. I remembered that there was another patchwork shop in Berwick - and found another green fat-q there - no pic of that yet. Before I headed home, I thought to look through one more Op-Shop, this time in Pakenham and found a cute pair of witches. These will help fill out my Halloween display shelf in October!