September wrap up

This month I have been in Tasmania for a girls trip that included my mother, my grandmother and my partners mother. My mother was celebrating her 60th birthday, my dear Nanna her 80th and Maurz (the mother in-law) and I well we were just along for the fun of it.

Tasmania is without a doubt the prettiest place that I have ever been to and I can honestly say that I felt inspired every day that I was there, it is like a paradise for creative souls with its natural beauty every direction you look in. The architecture, the countryside, the furniture and the food had me completely enthralled, i just cannot recommend this place highly enough and can’t wait to get back there.

mum in tassie
This is my mother taken on her 60th birthday sipping Tasmanian sparkling on the balcony of the Deloraine hotel where we stayed that day. Sometimes my mother frustrates me with her vagueness, she has a certain comical daftness for someone so intelligent. She tells me stories 2 or 3 times over occasionally . I think this is because she is such a social person, always talking to people so she loses track of who knows what. Ma is an artist, the things she makes astound me for her vision and inspiration is neverending, just like her patience.
We are very different people in some ways but the same in so many others. We have several exact matching moles on opposite sides of our bodies,forever proving to me that I am a little part of her. Sometimes i forget to tell her how special she is, and how appreciative I am of all the things that she does but I think she knows, her eyes are a beautiful shade of blue grey that constantly show a kindness and understanding that i have seen in no other. Those who call my mother a friend are lucky indeed, but I am luckier still to have had her for so many years and learned so many things. What a gorgeous creature  x
bay of fires
Me at the Bay of fires, pristine white sand beaches peppered with bright starfish, icey blue water with gulls bobbing along the shoreline- heavenly? yes very much so!
Scenery like this is everywhere, old bridges and rivers, cute houses with picket fences just like something from the olden days. This is the mother in law and I snuggling up to stay warm The Deloraine hotel where we spent 2 nights in a grande suite facing the river…which was basically just their biggest room that could sleep 4 people in charming style
church
a church we found while aimlessly wandering, as you do. There were graves down the hill from where this was taken and despite my attempts at scaling a window I couldn’t get inside for a further sticky beak
hobart park
Somewhere in Launceston we found this park which housed all kinds of design related things in this old building
hobart riverside
Riverside houses- close your eyes and pick one, any one and I would happily reside in it forever after
berry farm
A berry farm located just out of Swansea, this place was started because berry farmers in Tassie where having trouble selling their crops and this lady heard about it and came up with an idea for a unique business venture
This beautiful view is from my partners aunties house, or shack i guess you would call it in Swansea. Its sits at the furtherest point of the winding road nextdoor to a cemetary and is beautiful in an eeri and enchanting way Maurz and I with some tassie flowers…Did I mention the beauty of Tassie yet? see these flowers?they are everywhere and no matter how many times i saw them i just had to touch them. The bees love them too and surround them during the early morning. if anyone knows what they are called please contact me as I’d love to know more
tassie bridge
Anotherbubbling river, another bridge that could be a painting on your wall- this place just gets better and better
tassie casino
The view from a hill somewhere in Salamanka looking back over the bay towards the casino (that tall building) this is the area that i have decided I would like to live in
tassie dream home
A house located nextdoor to a church and cemetery…which there were lots of. This gorgeous little place was complete with a veggie patch and gravestones in the yard
Another house we walked past, look at the chimmneys! I’d love to w=know what this flowering tree is too
tassie
This picture abut sums up Tasmania for me, structural elegance with the natural beauty of a rainbow- it doesn’t get much better than this