Some grand days out!

The weather forecast for Sunday was good, so we took ourselves off to Caerhays 
Gardens to have a look at the Magnolias and Camelias. It was a bit muddy underfoot, but the flowers were wonderful. A carpet of primroses in cream pink and white greeted us as we walked up the hill and all the camelias were in full bloom.

This oddity turned out to be a Korean Pine. The flowers were really lovely and such an unusual colour. A must have for our new garden!

So after several days of wet and gloomy weather, today I took myself off to Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum with the Textile Plus group.

Walking around the grounds passing by all the old trains and machinery was truly inspirational. The birds were signing, the sun shone and there was coffee and cake in the cafe!

 This may have been a water feature, but is made out of old shovels! Magic!

 Lots of rust and textures!

And a little but of nature peeping out from a crack in the wall!

There is still a working clay pit here and we sat and watched the men working for quite a while until this little rusty chap caught our eye! Not sure how many elephants you get in a Cornish Clay Pit!

Lovely turquoise water to finish our walk and then back to the cafe for a cup of tea!

Next up is getting all this inspiration together to make something for our exhibition next year. Lots of ideas swimming around but nothing concrete as yet. I still find it difficult to think that other people have the same difficulty getting their ideas to take shape as I do. Yet there were three of us looking over the clay pit all saying, well it's lovely but I don't know where to start. In a way it's reassuring to think that I'm not alone. Back in the cafe over a cup of tea, we were all chatting away talking about what we had seen and I began to feel really inspired. That's the great thing about being part of a group like this. With lots of different ideas floating around you start to think well any things possible!

So off to the paint box!