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Where can I buy decorated Gourd's,I,m in Escape beach area,

You can make them. Get a fresh gourd and allow it to dry (several weeks).
Then paint it with undercoat or normal household paint (try different colours)
Finally you varnish it (two or three coats).
Practice all this on one gourde first.

When they are dry the seeds rattle about inside, useful for scaring birds or just as a natural wind chime.
You can also drill a hole in them and hang them up, they make excellent places for birds to nest.

http://www.grandgourds.com/Decorating.html
http://www.theartfulcrafter.com/gourd-one.html

thanks for that,but i'm not "art'y" at all,I sore some hanging up in Ikizmiz at the weekend,dead pretty,must be some where selling em??

Come to Chateau Lambousa market on a Saturday morning. There are a few people who sell them. Also the wall tiles, that you can hang outside your house.

Chateau Lambousa market is in Lapta, drive past the LA Hotel and turn left and then 1st left again.

Cheers Metin ,I'll check it out.

Also try The Lodge on the 12th June for the Cancer Charity morning. There are some really beautiful ones there.

thanks ss.

My source for these was the gift shop at Emdremit on the hill towards Caraman so between all the suggestions you should be able to coveniently find some. Nice if they are fashioned so that birds can nest within but so too can wasps. I should have known not to put them near where we eat BBQ food.

The best ones are the ones you will find at the Lodge, Catalkoy........thats if you want to wait that long !!!

thanks metin, i drove past the gift shop in march,forgot all about it is there a cafe up there as well?

Not sure about a cafe, I have a feeling it has closed down.

yes the basket shop in edrimit sells things like that