I was delighted to be invited to have a stall to sell my greeting cards at today’s local East Melbourne Library Community BBQ. We were very fortunate to have good weather (after some some shockingly hot few days) for our outdoor event.

There were stalls and people from the local Melbourne Men’s Shed Inc, East Melbourne Community Herb Garden Group, East Melbourne Historical Society and Melbourne Rooftop Honey. and me . I took along a selection of greeting cards printed from my drawings of books and libraries, Christmas themes and nature sketches and I was pleased with the amount of sales.

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This free community barbecue (sausage sizzle and curry puffs) had Christmas goodie bags for children and festive poetry readings. The queues for the food were long and people stayed around and chatted for a while as well.

I had fascinating conversations with local people who were visiting the library to borrow books or to visit the BBQ. We think about 400 people visited (based on the number of sausage in bread and curry puffs that were eaten). I caught up with friends and met new people (including three who live in the same apartment block as me !)

I also had a poster about my watercolour pencil classes which started a few lovely conversations and some potential bookings.

Well done to everyone who was involved and thank you to East Melbourne Library for organising this great event and inviting me to be involved ! It was a wonderful community event.