My Sales Table...

Feel like some Allsorts or some Licorice... All colours,

shapes, sizes and tastes. Assorted bags... Even some salt

licorice for my Dutch customers and hard licorice

for the German people and regular allsorts and

licorice together for New Zealander's.

Just come on by... Have coffee and cake at the cafe...

 And buy some goodies to take home or eat on your bike ride

or walking on the beach...

Music CD's and DVD's for the holiday evenings...

I started my sales table selling licorice as a bit of a laugh and some fun.

I had so many people stopping because of the name of my bus,

thinking I sold it... so why not?

It's happening wherever I am, one person approached me when

I was parked on the side of the road outside the  laundromat 

in Takaka... And went munching on his way a happy chappy.

Keep a look out... I could be anywhere...

Licorice Anyone?

The first time somebody came to my bus

door asking to buy licorice I was so surprised.

They went away  disappointed that I didn't have any.

This has happened so many times...

Even a workman in a truck stopped

and wanted $5 worth!

It never occured to me that people would

think, from the name of my bus, that I

was selling it. Parked here in the cafe

carpark even more people have asked me.

A German couple riding along the road on 

their bikes, who spoke very little English,

stopped to buy some. I asked if they just

wanted licorice and got the answer 'yes and

allsorts'! So I got myself organised and now I

have some for sale... 

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Bags of licorice, bags of allsorts and mixed.

I sell some every day... If  you're passing...

Call in. 

I'm Naming My Bus... Finally...

This is a lady who goes by the name of 'Jypsy Jude'.
She is a wonderful artist...
She has been painting since she was aged two.
I met her when I had just bought my Bedford...
She is another Beddie lover...
She offered to paint a name on my bus but I was undecided
what I wanted to call it.
After processing names for several months
I made a decision and contacted her.
I had moved from Ray's Rest to Thames to Paeroa.
Jude lives in Waihi - about a half hour drive away...
So this morning I went to her home...
A delightful old cottage as individual as she is.
The weather was fine... Not too much wind...
Black clouds threatening...
But she decided it was good enough.

In the months since I first met Jude she had been waiting for inspiration...
The right 'magic' to know what to paint.
She found it this week when shopping for a breakfast cereal!

Here is the name... And her sketch... That grew as she painted.
We talked over a cup of tea before she would start...
She wanted to get a 'feeling' about me...
So that her painting would reflect us both.


The very beginning... The first brush strokes... I'm nervous...
But trust her... I have seen lots of her art around her cottage...
And I like her style... So what is going to grow?

Reflection... Thinking... Considering...

I can't even paint a picture on a piece of paper...

Let alone on something as large as a bus! 

Jude has several tins of paint in her bucket on her stool...

She mixes the colours on the paint tin lids...

 

 The second colour goes on... I'm fascinated...

She is very casual about it... Chats away as she is painting...

I'm parked up her drive and we are outside in the sun and wind.

And even she doesn't quite know how this painting is going to 

develop into the finished end result.

She has trained herself to paint it slowly, the detail bit by bit...

And wait for the picture to emerge and be finished.

It's taking shape... she obviously has in her mind what she is painting...

I love the bright colours... Licorice Allsorts are... 

Attention to detail... And it's growing with every brush stroke...

And  growing... Jude is very quick at mixing and painting'

Can you see how her inspiration from the cereal packet then her sketch...

Is taking shape?

I keep watching to see what will develop next...