A Church Made Of Trees

Greetings lovely friends & readers

Last Sunday my dear friend Sue & I went to Church together - we went to The Tree Church a stunning venue about half an hour from here.  Sue had visited once before but I had never been.   Oh dear friends - it was  Amazing !!

I took about 50 photos in total so I have tried to pick out the best just to give you some idea of this beautiful property.  Believe me dear readers - my photos do Not do it justice.

The approach to the church top left & inside - the altar.

Taken from inside the church looking outwards ... you can see the Iron windows top right.

Although the Tree Church acquired new owners about 18 months ago, it was the realisation of one man's dream - who had the vision to build a church frame from iron & then grow & train trees over the entire shape of it. 

The entire property covers 3 hectares & is planted out in the most amazing garden - I just loved all the structure from the different trees that were planted.  If you click * here * it gives a bit more background about the history of the Tree Church & if you scroll to the bottom of the page there is a beautiful soothing Video to watch showing the Church & Gardens.

I adored the trees in the avenue above left - their trunks looked & felt like paper bark.

Sue said these clipped trees above left reminded her of Dr Seuss trees.

There was an area of flower gardens planted in a cottage garden style as well as a large veggie garden area. It was all immaculate.

Tall sunflowers that reached way up above our heads.

Sue managed a photo of us both inside the Church - I am inclined to chop heads off when I try to take selfies 😉

We spent a good couple of hours there & then we drove over to Cambridge & went to The Podium Cafe where we enjoyed a delicious lunch while chatting & watching the boats & water ski's on Lake Karapiro.  It was such a wonderful days Outing 😊

These are lightweight aluminium horseshoes worn by Race Horses that I cover.

I managed to complete two Orders this past week ... the first was for my friend Jan, who asked me to make a white horseshoe & if possible, to put a gold "50" on it as it was to be presented at a 50th wedding anniversary.

The 2nd Order was for 20 Mothball Sachets for my friend Marie who had an infestation of moths in her Merino Jumpers. Luckily I had all the dried herbs on hand to make these up & only had to purchase the whole cloves.

As school is on holiday here 'til February, Alec came to stay a couple of days.  His first request was "can we craft". 

I cut out a large fabric heart shape & set him to work embellishing it.  Alec loves anything shiny & gold so he was in his element.  He quickly decided he did not wish to learn to sew the things on as yet so we relied on craft glue & the hot glue gun. 

We had a visit to the Park & then the Berry farm to pick raspberries & of course, a berry icecream each 😊

The next day he enjoyed the play dough ... I had a couple of new colours & lots of shape cutters as I had been gifted some new cutters for Christmas.  

I have been trying to blog for at least 3 days now with no success - I thought I would show you this next photo so you might realise how very difficult it is to actually get computer time around here 😉

Thank you as always dear friends, for your visits here today,

Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead - be kind to yourselves & to each other,

With much love & friendship to you All,

Julie & the furry ones x0x0x