baskets

I love learning new crafts especially from the crafts people from the country you are living in or visiting. There was a week long indigenous craft show in Sakuna Park. So Josie and I went to check it out, there were suppose to be workshops but we could not get any info of when or where. I fell in love with this womans baskets, she is from Tuvalu but living in Fiji. Josie asked if we (me) could learn how to make a basket from her and she said yes. So I went and hung out with her for a couple of days and learned the basics of basket weaving!

art at the park

A little bit of home

I love ferns and they were a major part of my garden in Canada, along with a great collection of trilliums. I have been looking at ferns here in Fiji and wondering how I can put them in my garden. I finally decided to make a garden in a shading part of the yard. Artificial shade but at this point who cares. Ana and her husband helped me and she was a bit perplexed by my not wanting any colour or very limited colour in the garden. So I started to explain that when you go hiking in Canada you go into these great forests that have these amazing canopy's and on the forest floor you will have a very lush fern garden, amazingly beautiful albeit green!!! I can assure you I was waxing poetic and I am sure my eyes glazed over and I was wearing a spiritually altered expression on my face as I was talking about my forest walk experiences. But the long and the short of it is that she totally got it! and loves my little side garden that is dedicated to my forest walks in Canada!

my new garden

girls night out

Ruths daughter Kate was visiting and she requested a night out on the town. Unfortunatly the club was totally dead, the good thing is we had the dance floor to ourselves.

From left to right: Kate, Ruth, Annie, Josie, Me

Goodbye Sweet thing...

I am sorry to report that Slinky was killed last night by a pack of stray dogs...