Buddha pear

The big question, does the buddha pear taste enlightened?

indigo girls

I dyed some things blue, which is actually a good thing. Unlike Zoe and Pene, I like blue. I also liked going to the op-shop looking specifically for things to dye blue, as I have no white things hanging around.
Indigo is freaky plant magic. And I was quite happy to watch the ladies of the Plant Craft Cottage* mixing up the batch of dye. It looks like weird sickly yellow soup, but when you lift the fabric out it slowly reacts to the oxygen turning special blue. Cool.
And weirdly when you put it back in the dye to make it darker, it comes out yellow again. All that blue colour gone! waaah! where! ooooh! look! its back and its darker. PLANT MAGIC.

Alex showed us some videos, I wish I could remember what it was called, the first one with the colour coordinated dancing rainbow finale (they did grub dancing across the sand amongst other things) but unfortunately I have no brain. Lucky it was an age and skill level discriminate workshop. Melissa turned up, stripped off her skirt to dye it and said she was hoping it didn't turn out too hippy. All this hippy tie-dye! HaHa. I bet it did turn out hippy. There'll be a drum cirlce in craft victoria in no time. Oh, there is. A Chicks on Speed drum circle. For the love of the object instrument. Friday night. See you there.

*The Plant Craft Cottage is in the botanic gardens and I wanna hang out there as they all remind me of my grandma.

WOW mountains

We went South to The Alps... We walked on frozen lakes and listened to the crazy rumble and boom from beneath them. We went inside the mountain through ice crystal caves and frozen waterfalls then we caught a train to the top of the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain where we peered into Austria and Switzerland and Italy. It was awesome, in the true sense of the word, not in an overexcited annoying skier talking about powder way. We saw quaint villages and way too many ski pants. We went inside an igloo too. Tourists.

It's educational

I've never been very good at looking at specimens in jars, least of all mutated baby animals, but still we went to the Museum für Naturkunde around the corner. It was full of half-pints gauping at dinosaurs and taxidermied exotic and extinct creatures standing around, looking sad and beautiful and wrong. The large diorama's are pretty great, from around the 1920's they have perfect paint by numbers backgrounds and are a delight to see.





One of my favourite things was the mineral collection, with a huge display of otherworldly rocks and crystals. Whoahwhoahwhoah it's magic, you know...