Once again there’s a Treasure Hunt in this month’s edition of Prim Perfect. There are TWELVE stores taking part this month – and you have to visit the store to discover the prim count of each of the pieces featured in the magazine. You’ll find instructions on how to find the prim count for an item on our Treasure Hunt Information page.
Today’s clue comes from Sweetbay Designs in Sweetbay – where followmeimthe Piedpiper (known to her friends as Pip) has been very hard at work recently! This greenhouse is one of her latest pieces – I love the way you can open a hatch on the roof to vary the temperature if all that glass makes it too hot! With a solid, brick built base and a natural wood frame to let in as much air as possible, this makes the perfect place for nurturing your seedlings and growing your tomatoes.
But Pip has been formidably busy recently. In the most recent edition of the magazine, I’ve mentioned her Cotswold Post Office for Caledon and I talked about her amazingly polished ballroom floor when presenting her LAST Treasure Hunt clue.
But now she’s extending her range yet further. Her new diner is worth a post to itself, and she’s currently engaged on an exciting new project that she allowed me a sneak preview of – a tradional English narrowboat.
I’ve always loved houseboats, and English narrowboats are a lovely subset of the the genre, featuring really beautiful folk art in the tradition of English fairground art. The colours that Pip has used are characteristic – the boat bottom is black, because it it caulked with tar to make it waterproof, and the upper part is a rich, war red. Even the scrolls and flourishes that enclose the boatbuilder’s name are traditional – all it lacks as yet is the boat name on the hull. And that, of course, is for a lucky owner to decide.
The latest version even includes a watering can painted with roses, a piece of folk art on the narrowboat that has been discussed on Wikipedia!
But for now, let’s concentrate on the greenhouse and the Treasure Hunt.
For the treasure hunt competition, what you have to do is to find as many prim counts as you can, and send the details to primperfect@gmail.com, including your avatar name and an answer to the tiebreak question (which you’ll find in the magazine on Page 90). The person to find the most prim counts will win – and in the event of a tie, we will use the tie-breaker. Also: – you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Just find as many as you can – by March 5th 2008.
See our earlier clue here:
February Treasure Hunt – Clue 1: Submariner Fabrications
Another clue will be appearing shortly!
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