Gala Day has come and gone and i am starting to feel quite relieved its over, don't get me wrong i have really enjoyed it all and Molly has defiantly enjoyed starting her role as Princess, but the work i have put into it all along with everything else and work has been hard and i am officially knackered! I worked out the hours that it took to make the float as i did it all the plucking myself and its a grand total of 140 hours!!!!!
Stripping the old sides was the kids job, mine was sorting the mess out into colours and that tool time, but i we reused quite a bit of it which saved money. These sides ended up being warped so we used another set, so another lot of pulling all the plastic out.
Paul had the great job of cutting up bin bags for the other colors we needed.
The flags were so fiddly to do and took ages.
It started coming together and we had a puppet theatre, we had decided to use the Theme "Beside the seaside"!
When the new sides arrived we had to move to the lounge and for weeks all the outside could see was the big woodern boards
From the moment i got up on the weekends this is what i would be doing, sat plucking away
These are the railings on the prom and the sand and sea, funnily i thought this is what the railings looked like, but then i realised they are exactly the same as the railings outside my window at work! so must have been in the back of my mind
One finished... then another one exactly the same for the other side!
Our Beach Huts for the back
A week before our gala we got the truck to have a trial run, this was frustrating with it only just fitting the truck
We had quite a bit of adjusting to do!
But gala day came and with some finishing touches like these chalkboards that i made
and some vintage ice cream posters
We were off!
I made the sticks of rock out of pool noodles and celeophane.
I have some vintage puppets as well that goon the theatre at the back, but with it being our gala and i was so busy we didn't get chance to put them on, but i am sure more pictures will follow x
