Time to collect the laquer goods I ordered from Augustine Rios c. 2 months ago. I was sooo pleased to see them all ready. They really are fab .. can’t wait for you all to see them.

Chilli bowls Pepper salad bowls (lush) Augustine packing the trays off to the post office, making sure they we wrapped up good and proper … weighed a ton!

Then i went off to a more local market and found the straw matts I was after … what a treat .. the colours are just fantastic … they would look amazing on your garden table in the summer.

2 shapes round and oval/round (dunno what you call that!) check out these colours.

They also come with coasters so I’m planning on selling them in mix and match sets .. you get 6x oval place matts 3x round ones (for the middle of the tabel) and 6 x coasters … you chose your colours and mix them the way you like (e.g. 6 bright blue place matts, 3 hot pink middle matts and 6 green coasters). The colours work really well together. They’d make excellent wedding gifts, or a pressie for your mum.

I also found some very casual summer straw bags:

Hot hot colours again … my sister has already nabbed a couple of these and has had a good response from her friends in London.

This is a picture of the lady that sold these to me and with her daughter who refused to smile! God darn it .. wish I could rotate these pictures!

I love these straw goods … i think there is potential here … I’m only sorry that I discovered them so late in the trip. When I return to Mexico I shall make a point of trying to find out more about where these are made and get some pictures of peole at work.

Off to the beach soon for a week off … Yucatan here we come .. yipeeeeeee.

Hobo out x�