We spend our free day wandering the streets of Florence, shopping visiting the markets there is so many leather bags and jackets to choose from. Diana our tour leader organized a guide to take us to places like The Duomo, Ponte Vecchio is the oldest bridge in Florence, and visited the museum Accademia Gallery where […]
22/09/2014Cathy’s Blog
We have arrived in Tuscany for ‘Fun in the Italian Mudd’
Fun in the Italian mudd starts with welcome drinks at our villa in the medieval village of Certaldo in Tuscany, close by to the school of Ceramics – La Meridiana. Our little village is so beautiful we will be here for 6 nights so time to unpack and make it home. The village sits […]
20/09/2014A Potter’s journey through France and Itlay
Our next destination is Milan, 500 km of driving to reach Italy. We drive through the French Alps, La Mount Blanc through long tunnels weaving along the mountains; it’s the most glorious scenery. We then drive over the boarder into Italy. From our car we can see the most beautiful Tuscan countryside we are […]
17/09/2014A Potters journey through France and Tuscany
If you wake up early just as the sun in rising the deer come close to the château our friendly peacock came to visit us while we had breakfast then sadly had to say goodbye to the Countess, I have many fond memories of this place. Our next stop is Lyon its about 450km […]
13/09/2014A Potters journey through France & Tuscany
We came across a Art Supplies shop just across the road from the Louvre, called Le Magasin built in 1900 and still family owned. Greats like Van Gough visited the store often to buy art supplies. The highlight of the day for me was visiting Claude Monet’s home and famous garden. It was truly […]
12/09/2014A Potters Journey through Tuscany
Our journey begins in Paris, after a long 24hr flight we arrived in Paris at 1.30pm Monday afternoon jet lagged we made our way to Hotel Pavillon Opera Paris. After we had settled in, decided to do some exploring and shopping Paris has so many wonderful places, delightful cafe’s and shopping! We made our […]
11/09/2014Fun in the Mud workshop at Care centre Flaxton
Volunteering to run a workshop with the elderly and the disabled was such a blessing. It shows that clay can be as much fun for children as the elderly and the disabled. They had a great time creating small pinch pots and animals,even after the workshop was over most of the participants stayed on, it […]
05/08/2014Italian Tour coming soon!
With only weeks to go the excitement of the Tuscany tour is approaching. Eleven lady’s mostly from the Sunshine coast area are preparing packing and counting down the sleeps till we arrive. Some of us are meeting in Paris before the tour while others are going to Ireland and England first then meeting the group […]
04/08/2014Living Back Yard workshop. Creating a frog
Living Back Yard workshop run by the Sunshine Coast Council a great success, beautiful winter weather just a perfect day. We made frogs in clay everyone enjoyed creating.
14/07/2014Channel 7 local news visited Friedmudd Studio
While I was preparing for Gardening on the Edge for the weekend of the 7th & 8th June, I had a phone call from Channel 7 wanting to film ‘The potters garden’ I was very excited. They only gave me an hour to prepare I managed to have everything as tidy as I could. It […]
19/06/2014