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Geocaching treasures

I thought I'd pop back in and share some Geocaching treasures that I whipped up last week - fabric bookmarks.

They were quick, easy and a cheap alternative to buying trinkets to trade in the hidden caches.  I just used fabric off cuts and popped some wadding in-between to give them some strength.

I sewed up about 20 of these and now I'm wishing that I made more in the first batch - they're pretty damm fast to make!

I'm working on another easy peasy idea to whip up for Geocaching treasure too - I'll share that soon :)

Geocaching swag + first aid bag

In-between the holiday crafting that's been going on here this last week, I took some time out to sew up some goodies for our new Geocaching hobby.  They were fun and easy to make - a swag bag to hold our treasure for exchange and a first aid bag to keep sunscreen, bandaids, insect repellent & ointment in.

I used THIS lovely post over at Salt Water Kids for my inspiration, creating our goodies out of denim and fabric.  I used a felted wool sweater to cut out the first aid cross and letters.

We have a small sized backpack that we keep these two bags in, plus our hats, drinks and a spare pen.

I also made a second first aid bag for Bella's friend, Emily and her brother Jasper to share when they go Geocaching.  

We popped out today to take Bella's friend home and stopped off to find a couple of caches along the way.  Bella thought the vintage cache tin (below) was pretty cool and can you see the Sleeping Beauty mountain in the background?  If you look hard you can see Sleeping Beauty asleep on her back - can you make out her nose, lips, eyes, eyebrows and chin? I used to find this mountain fascinating when I was small.

Oh, and our sweet boy turns 15 (eeeek!) tomorrow and upon request I'm baking him a rainbow cake - apparently he doesn't want it for the rainbow, it's the copious layers of frosting and cream that he's after!

Well, I hope your weekend is a lovely one. Thank you for all your generous Geocaching goody ideas too, I loved reading them all.  xoxo

A new adventure

We have a new family addiction - Geocaching.  After tracking down a couple of caches around our area on Friday, we headed off on a little trip yesterday to try and find some more.  Our first stop was for a cache located near the Grandvewe Cheesery, so we popped in for some hot chocolate and the world's best melting moments biscuits - glorious!! 

We'd never been to the Cheesery before but will definitely be heading back again sometime.

Here's Bella holding the coin out of the first cache:

This is a special coin all the way from Switzerland that's trying to make it's way back home.  So, we can't keep this one - we had to log it onto the Geocache website and then we pop it back in another cache, in the hope that somebody else might find it and get it a little closer to it's home.

Then, we headed down to Middleton to find some more.  There was an evil looking scarecrow on the side of the road:

After finding another cache, we travelled further down the coast to Eggs & Bacon bay.  

The view was amazing and Bella was very happy to find a pretty bracelet inside the treasure box.  When you take something from the cache you need to replace it.  We've been adding trinkets, lucky coins and such, but I really want to start making some nice and simple goodies to leave - fabric bookmarks, little needle holders and such.  

I know, he's funny.

We finished off the day with fish & chips by the river at Huonville - best fish and chips we've had in a long time, so good.

Have you been Geocaching?  What goodies do you pop back in the cache as a trade?  I'm on the lookout for new ideas.

P.S. For those unfamiliar with Geocaching, it's basically a high tech treasure hunt played with a GPS device, go HERE to find out more.