St Patrick’s Day 2025
Stroll
Opal and Agathe were invited to the Hitty’s Art Gallery to see the new display for March…
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Amazement
…Constance’s green overshot coverlet is in the show – how wonderful!!
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Bog Oak platter
In the corner of the gallery, the block twins found a special platter made of Irish Bog Oak – the wood has a similar history to the wood they are carved from, though it is a bit younger than they are…
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From Killarney
….Irish Bog Oak is a kind of wood that has been preserved for between 3 – 7 thousand years, before being excavated and carved!
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Kindred Spirits
Opal and Agathe are made from Swamp Kauri wood – which was preserved in a bog in Aotearoa for up to 50,000 years before being carved in 2014!
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Tea!
Of course the best part of being special guests at the Museum is the Special tea!
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Bless you!
Happy St Patrick’s Day…
May your mornings bring joy
And your evenings bring peace.
May your troubles grow less
And your blessings increase.
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Quimper Hittys 
Happy St.Patricks Day!
You are so beautiful ladies, especially in your dresses… I loved so much. The wooden plate is amazing. should be so precious too. Beautiful green in art stage. Thank you, Love, nia
Dear nia, you are so kind! The dresses are made from a pattern by “Little Cotton Rabbits” I lengthened them a few rows to fit my wooden dolls. We are having strange weather like you – here it is a little cool again, the dolls are glad to have warm, but pretty dresses!
That is a great exhibition and the tea looks yummy!
We think this year we shall look for a new exhibit in the Gallery every month! It is fun to try and find a theme and just two or three pretty things to put into the tiny exhibition space!
What a lovely idea!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you and the Hittys!
Thank you so much! We had a lovely day, I hope yours was also pleasant – with no pinches, and lots of lucky things! I am keeping my granddaughter company this week during spring break so it has been busy and fun!
History walks through and resides in your sweet little gallery. The plate is quite the unique piece as is Constance’s coverlet, both beautifully made. The twins dresses are vibrant on this somewhat gloomy morning here. Thanks for the cheer and blessing.
The block twins were overjoyed to see the Bog Oak platter – it is so unusual to have a kindred spirit in a plate! I’ll bet they could have interesting conversations! The weather has been iffy here too but the plants know it is spring. I thing the wooden girls will also be feeling the sap flowing soon if they are not already!
Happy St. Paddy’s Day. The girls look lovely in their green. The platter is wonderful, my little Turkish spindle is made from Ipswich bog oak, amazing how old the wood is. Enjoy the tea.
It was a lovely day, thanks! Isn’t it a curious thing, those ancient wooden things that still look and feel like wood!? The Hittys are honoured to have such a venerable platter (though they just think of the block twins as sisters).
I loved the green-spool-legged table for its makeshift ingenuity – with the tin(?) table’s legs. In the midst of marvels of manufacture requiring far more time to come into being.
We love our spool-tables – there is another one somewhere about, painted blue without the thread! And the little tin can coffee table is a favourite!
I imagine the green Special tea smelling so fresh, and made by steeping the lucky fourth leaflet of each clover leaf commemorated on the tea service.
We like the idea of fourth-leaf-clover tea! Especially if there are little cakes to go-with!
I love the knitted dresses….and that platter is magnificent. Happy to see the lovely woven coverlet is showcased. What a wonderful outing for the girls.
Opal and Agathe were pleased to be special guests at the Gallery, and were pleased to have an excuse to wear their favourite knitted dresses! Constance was happy about the green coverlet getting a chance to shine!
It must’ve been very challenging to carve the twins, given how dense Irish bog oak is, I imagine swamo Kauri wood is even denser if it’s older.
There are still living Kauri trees in New Zealand – they are a conifer, and so not too hard to carve, even when 50,000 years old! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis_australis
The block twins are Swamp Kauri.
Oak on the other hand, is a hard wood, when fresh, I don’t know about ancient, but the little platter seems very heavy for its size like fresh Oak, and has a lot of fine carving marks as though it had been hard to carve.
Ooo. Thanks for the link. 💜
Beautiful knitted dresses. Lovely way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!
Thanks! Agathe and Opal were so happy when I actually knitted something especially for them instead of yet another sock!