We had a great morning. I had planned to head off to the local Farmers Market with the boys at 8am rain, hail or shine. We were all in the car. All clipped in and - whoops - a flat battery!
Okay, a slight delay :) Luckily we live right by a kids park so we headed over there to wait for help from people who know about these sort of car things. Our play in the park became a bit of a nature forage and so we got our market-baskets and collected tiny flowers and leaves. We brought them home and sat in the sunshine on the verandah. We made new placemats for the table - I laid out contact and the boys stuck down their leaves and petals (I must admit that Lovely was getting a bit over it by this stage so I did help him :) and then folded a top layer of contact over to seal it all up. I think they're quite beautiful and rather colourful for early winter.
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During our project the car man came and got us started so as soon as we were finished we jumped aboard and headed off on our mission. Only 2 hours later than expected, but better late than never! We had lots of fun, buying organic apples, yummy pecans (I was very proud of Hug when he saw the stall & shrieked "Pecans!" - they've recently taken a liking to them), some organic Tatsoi (what *exactly* am I planning to do with it?!), a jar of beautiful local Feta cheese and some salad things.
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Hug got to show us his amazing tree-climbing skills
They had a special treat - these gorgeous take-away Baby-chino's. Yum.
Treats from the tomato lady :)
OK - What an inspiration! I love the placemats you did. Gorgeous. I am totally going to copy you :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the idea of having the kids have their own baskets for the Farmers Market. I am going to do that too next time we go.
You have great ideas, and beautiful photography!
Lovely pics! Looks like a good time was had by all!
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