Whether you call it floristry or floral styling, if you like your workshops with a serve of afternoon tea and a glass of bubbles, check out the upcoming Prunella workshops in Kyneton, VIC.
There’s the signature cloche workshop, a floral headpiece workshop (perhaps for those with a wedding coming up) or the floral French salon workshop, where you create your own still life with flowers and other accessories and take a photograph of it home with you (as well as the blooms, of course). Safe to say, these are not your average flower classes!
Last month, the other half and I enjoyed a packed weekend in cold but beautiful Daylesford. In fact, we took in Daylesford, Kyneton and Trentham and the stunning countryside on the drives in between. If you love homewares and antiques shops, great local food and wine and friendly hospitality, I thoroughly recommend a trip!
Frangos & Frangos, Daylesford
We arrived in Daylesford (just over an hour’s drive from Melbourne Tullamarine airport) late on Friday night and had more than one scarily close encounter with a mob (that’s the actual term!) of wallabies. It really is out in the country so do be careful if you’re tired and driving after dark. We spent our first night at Hotel Frangos, which can only be described as pleasantly eccentric, in the Alpha Suite. It had the honour of being both the largest headboard and the largest hotel bathroom I have ever experienced. Frangos is definitely unique. It’s part Alice in Wonderland, part Addam’s Family, with a lot of black and red. It’s very dark, and it’s clearly geared towards couples (apparently some of the rooms have mirrors on the ceiling, go figure) and trying hard to be arty and romantic.
The service from general manager Bernard was faultless, the bed and goose down pillows, exceptionally comfortable.
