{ Point + Shoot }

This weekend Mr M and I trundled off on a lovely day trip to Hanging Rock, Woodend, Daylesford and Hepburn Springs. I have been wanting to go over that way to rummage through antique shops,  visit galleries and pop into the Lark bricks and mortar shop.

We scrambled up Hanging Rock then went onto Woodend for a yummy coffee and friand at a lovely deli, admired a beautiful big oak farmhouse-style table that we both really wanted, onto to Daylesford for lots of shopping, art admiring and bazaar rummaging. 

 

I came away from my diggings with a gold ornate photo frame which I have no idea what I will do with but said I would grab one if I saw one (and it was $5). Mr M got an Australian map book and I picked up a 1960 edition of The Potato Growers Digest produced by the Victorian Department of Agriculture. For those that don't know my family are potato farmers, this little publication was full of golden gems of articles and photos which I plan to frame. Was so interesting reading the articles, in 1960 they were getting excited about yielding 6 tonnes to the acre, now we do about 20 tonnes to the acre!! 

  

I followed my nose up the hill and around the corner after getting a bit excited seeing the Lark a-frame on the main street, Mr M had no idea what the fuss was about pfffft. It was as cute as I imagined, lots of Cath Kidston, crochet food, pretty cards and general British charm. What I was most impressed with was the visual merchandising and styling, it just makes such a difference to a retail space and I thought Lark was by far the most well styled shop in Daylesford.

We visited Clayfire Gallery where I swooned over Sara Paxtan's work (if you visit the gallery website the images simply do not do the work justice, I am still fantasising about the piece 'Dusk' sitting on my still blank wall above the dining table). Then onto Hepburn Springs to see what all the fuss was over mineral water but the sun was beginning to set so we started to make our way slowly back to Ythanbrae, stopping in for a good old 'counter-ey' at a pub in Kilmore.

  

 

What did you get up to on your weekend? 

Go anywhere? 

See anything? 

Or did you just stay at home and do housework like we did yesterday? And by housework I mean a serious Spring clean - have never seen our kitchen that sparkling!

Jump over to fat mum slim to see some other point + shoot's from the weekend.