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Review – Outback Spectacular High Country Legends

December 16, 2014 by Shellie Wilson

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Last week we were invited to preview the new show  Legends of the High country at The OutBack Spectacular. It was great, it was filled with lots of variety including a 1920’s mini circus, snow falling from the cieling and quad bike races involving the audience.outback1

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I am often asked if its suitable for kids – in fact the person sitting next to us was surprised we had brought our kids. We try to take them everywhere with us as we believe the more the see the more they learn.  Perhaps we’re lucky and they are just well behaved kids but we have never had a major issue at any show. Maybe a few questions here and there during a show from the youngest who has a hard time of being quiet and is very inquisitive. They have been to shows since they were babies so perhaps it’s more of a “they are used to it” scenario.  So to answer the question: Yes it’s great for kids!

As well as your meal included there is a holding area where you can soak up the atmosphere of the country show. This is great place to have pre-dinner drinks and let the kids have a dance around to the music and of course go and meet the stars of the show – the Horses.

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This is what my 7 year old had to say about the show :

Hi. My name is Arabella, Shellie’s daughter. I am delighted to make this review.  The outback spectacular show was terrific, but i was a bit scared when i thought the men were whipping the horses,(later mum told me that they were just cracking a whip on the sand)because i was afraid that it would hurt the horses(i am in the middle of reading Black Beauty). My favourite part was when Emma told us about when her mum was a little girl. I also loved Mrs johnson’s apple pie. When we came out, my brother was pretending to be a horse and I was asking for a pet!!

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 Tickets can be purchased here

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Do You Park Your Cross Stitch Thread? Try The Royal Roads Method

I have not done a lot of big cross stitch projects, but sometimes even with small projects it can be hard to decide exactly where to begin and how to work through the chart if you’re working with multiple colors. The general categories for the possible methods are known as cross country and parking. 

Cross country means that you’re working one color at a time, moving around the chart (or the section of the chart you’re working on) until you’re done with that color. Parking means you’re working in a smaller section and doing all the colors in that area, “parking” the threads by leaving them attached to the canvas but out of the way while you finish each section. 

Royal Rows is a specific way of parking named by Alison Royal, which is explored in detail on a post on Stitching Daily. 

The idea is that you’re working one “tower” of stitches at a time (she uses a section of 10 stitches across by 20 down, but you can do whatever makes sense to you). You work all the stitches of a color at a time, starting at the top left and working your way down. When you’re done with a color you can park it where needed in the section below your current tower (known as the dungeon) or in the “east tower,” which is the section to the right. 

There’s also a specific way of dealing with thread ends when you’re done with a color. This is a super simplified version (head to the blog post at Stitching Daily to get all the details) but the basic idea is that you’re working from left to right and top to bottom across the work, parking the threads in the next section when you’re done with them and systematically choosing which color to work with next. 

The whole idea of parking is kind of overwhelming to me though I will admit that it makes a lot of sense. I guess I need to try it on a smallish big project and see how it goes. Do you use the parking method of cross stitch? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Stitching Daily]

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