A Happy Easter to You!
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of my Flickr friends and followers a very happy Easter! May the days of celebration ahead as we commence the Easter period be filled with lots of fun, laughter and if you go on an Easter Egg hunt on Easter Sunday, a chocolate Easter egg... or two! However, amongst all the fun and frivolity and chocolate take a moment to stop and remember the reason for the season, whether it be religious, or the simple joy of being with the ones you love the most. Whatever the reason, I hope your Easter is special!
The theme for "Looking Close… on Friday" for Friday 18th of April is "Easter wishes". In the lead up to Easter, I went shopping at an little Russian gift shop in the city and came across some rather charming papier mâché eggs which open up and are hollow inside, lined with a stencilled pattern. Here I have added it tumbling out of an Easter themed bucket that a friend gave me a number of years ago along with a large number of Haigh’s chocolate Easter eggs. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
Papier-mâché is a versatile craft technique where shredded paper is mixed with water and a binder to create a pulp for modelling or moulding, often reinforced with cloth or other materials.
On the 1st May 1915, Alfred E. Haigh opened the doors of the very first Haigh’s Chocolates store in the Beehive Building at 34 King William Street, Adelaide South Australia. Alfred began adding his own flavour to the industry and in 1917 he started producing chocolate-covered fruit centres. Business boomed. Alfred passed away suddenly in 1933, and his son Claude took over the running of the business, which had by then grown to six stores. During the Second World War, supplies were difficult. Yet despite the sugar rationing Haigh’s managed to keep on trading, making boiled sweets and wrapped toffees for the armed forces. Alfred’s grandson, John Haigh, joined the business in 1946 with a vision to take Haigh’s chocolate making to new heights. He trained in Switzerland with Lindt and Sprungli and visited the United States to look at production, shop styles and marketing. During the 1950s and 60s, Haigh’s chocolates were also sold in the cinema. In 1965 Haigh’s opened the first store outside South Australia, in Collins Street Melbourne, where Haigh’s chocolates proved to be just as popular. Haigh’s chocolates is still a family owned and run business, and is the oldest family owned chocolatiers in Australia.
A Happy Easter to You!
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of my Flickr friends and followers a very happy Easter! May the days of celebration ahead as we commence the Easter period be filled with lots of fun, laughter and if you go on an Easter Egg hunt on Easter Sunday, a chocolate Easter egg... or two! However, amongst all the fun and frivolity and chocolate take a moment to stop and remember the reason for the season, whether it be religious, or the simple joy of being with the ones you love the most. Whatever the reason, I hope your Easter is special!
The theme for "Looking Close… on Friday" for Friday 18th of April is "Easter wishes". In the lead up to Easter, I went shopping at an little Russian gift shop in the city and came across some rather charming papier mâché eggs which open up and are hollow inside, lined with a stencilled pattern. Here I have added it tumbling out of an Easter themed bucket that a friend gave me a number of years ago along with a large number of Haigh’s chocolate Easter eggs. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
Papier-mâché is a versatile craft technique where shredded paper is mixed with water and a binder to create a pulp for modelling or moulding, often reinforced with cloth or other materials.
On the 1st May 1915, Alfred E. Haigh opened the doors of the very first Haigh’s Chocolates store in the Beehive Building at 34 King William Street, Adelaide South Australia. Alfred began adding his own flavour to the industry and in 1917 he started producing chocolate-covered fruit centres. Business boomed. Alfred passed away suddenly in 1933, and his son Claude took over the running of the business, which had by then grown to six stores. During the Second World War, supplies were difficult. Yet despite the sugar rationing Haigh’s managed to keep on trading, making boiled sweets and wrapped toffees for the armed forces. Alfred’s grandson, John Haigh, joined the business in 1946 with a vision to take Haigh’s chocolate making to new heights. He trained in Switzerland with Lindt and Sprungli and visited the United States to look at production, shop styles and marketing. During the 1950s and 60s, Haigh’s chocolates were also sold in the cinema. In 1965 Haigh’s opened the first store outside South Australia, in Collins Street Melbourne, where Haigh’s chocolates proved to be just as popular. Haigh’s chocolates is still a family owned and run business, and is the oldest family owned chocolatiers in Australia.