Craft Show & Lost in Time Shawl

The Flower, Arts and Craft Show came around again and this was our second year of entering.

Paul entered his first piece this year. 

Although we had spent time with the kids doing there entry's, we left some of ours to the last minute. Paul had a late night drawing his picture, which took him about 4 hours. 

No, we didn't enter any flowers, i know where my skills start and end!, but the displays were amazing,i really wish i was more green fingered, but i think that will come at a time when the kids are older and we are less busy.

These succulents though are something i think i could manage, as they seem to below maintenance and they look wonderful, so might be something i could give a go in the future.

I entered a Fruit Carrot Cake and a Lemon Drizzle cake, unfortunately didn't get placed,b ut i am not surprised as the week before my fan oven blew up and i was forced to use the top oven, which really is nothing like the main oven and took longer to bake and so made it very hard to time it and well they were just not the same as i usually do, but its the taking part that counts

AS everything you enter has to be made in the year between shows,i entered Freds Knitted jumper, but afterwards realised i had a couple of other bits i could have entered, mainly from before Christmas as after it was all about Mollys float and i have made not much.

I came 2nd!

This was a new project,My Lost in Time Shawl,that i finished the night before the show, i love it so much,the colours are so bright,i used a couple of balls of my Carons Cakes on it.

I came 2nd!

I also entered the Dezmelda Blanket i made for my Mum

This is my Parcel for any occasion that i entered.

Papercraft is not something i really do but i think the cut out Thank you was what did it.

I came 1st!

This is Pauls drawing,it was nice sat with him at our Crafterevening,Paul said we should do it more often and i think we should too!

Paul Came 2nd!

Mollys Novelty Fruit or Veg, Aubergine Penguin

She came 1st!

Mollys decorated Sheep Buns

1st!

Freds decorated plate

3rd!

Fred's Floating Flowers

3rd!

Mollys Needlecraft Ice Lolly

1st!

Ewans Campfire Cup cakes

1st!

Ewans Flowers in a Bowl

2nd!

Freds Chocolate Crispy Cakes

Well Done!

Molly did Flowers in a mug and came 2nd as well

Overall we won 5 First places, 5 Second Places, 2 Thirds Places

and Molly & Ewan both won trophy's for most points in there groups!

The Ellisons did well and will be entering again next year! x

Ewan's 11th Birthday

In with all the madness leading up the elections and the Galas we had Ewans 11th Birthday.

Can't believe he will be going to high school in a few weeks. Went out last week and got him all his new uniform, and all the other things he will need. My gosh the cost of it all!and his school doesn't even have a blazer which i am now thankful for, but we got it all and he is actually very excited.

We planned a Campout Themed Party for him and i idea was he could have a few friends round and we would pitch the tent and they would campout and watch a movie outside.

This is the Campfire cake i made, the flames are made out of melted boiled sweets.

For the party favors,i wanted something a bit different so used these coke can money boxes.

As the weather was a bit hit and miss they all ended up sleeping in the front room and after the film played xbox till about 4am i think, we just left them to it!

The boys,wanted to join in and brought there sleeping bags outside the front room, eventually i let them "campout" on the bedroom floor!

Next year will be a high school party with new friends, it will be strange to go from a small school with 100 kids to one with about 700! x

Fleetwood, Singleton & Lytham Gala's

Our first outing with Princess Molly and Co was to Fleetwood Gala

We went to Lytham the next week. When re arrived we realised we had lost the back panel of the float on the way, which was really upsetting but we throw my crochet blanket over the back and carried on.

We were more than happy though when Molly got Best Princess!

It was so funny though, as Alex was carrying a big inflatable dolphin (one of the inflatables we bought for the kids to play with on the float,he refused to leave it behind and trailed after the retinue,one they had stopped for judging he was rolling around wrestling the dolphin in front of Molly! It was cute!

Such a hot day ice creams and a go on the fair 

Singleton Gala is a very small traditional gala, a walk from one end of the road to another, just the Queens,a band and the Singleton Cloggers,plus a few in fancy dress.

Then its on to a small field with stalls like tombolas and traditional games and a few little rides.  The retinues perform May pole dancing and every year i wounder if we should try it but it looks so complicated, i imagine trying to teach children that would be a nightmare! 

 They all look so lovely, when you are making the costumes it hard to imagine what they will look like when they are all together x

Princess Molly

Finally i have the time to post about this years Thornton Cleveleys Gala Princess, Princess Molly!  After 4 years Molly finally got chosen and she got Crowned Gala Princess. You have seen the float and the hours that it took to get it all ready, then we have been out weekend after weekend representing our area and i can safely say she loved every minute of it and the weeks that followed.

Mollys crown is the second one we bought and Paul picked this one and Molly agreed with him, so as it was gold, i decided to use gold with the pink. For her tayne, i bought these two gold appliques and some gold trim that went all the way around the trayne. I had wanted to bling it up a bit more and perhaps put her name on it, but it just looked right the way it was

Mollys dress the first time she tried it on!!!

I had bought a dress from e-bay for £50, as everything was so busy in the months leading up to the gala. Molly picked it online and when it arrived it was nothing like the picture and you could not fit a hoop under it,it was not well made at all. I was really disappointed. Then i noticed that the style of the dress was the same as one of the other Queens (but hers was really nice and well made!) so i decided to make Mollys dress myself. I got Molly to draw a picture of what she wanted and as we were watching Wizard of OZ that day, it was very much like Gindas the Good Witch, mainly she wanted big puffy sleeves and a big skirt!

I took her off the the fabric shop and we picked out a white chiffon with tiny gold stars on that i used for the skirt and stretchy white velvet, along with the Pink for the trayne. I was not sure at this stage how it would pan out, but it all cam together really well and i made it quite quickly really. I actually made a leotard that fastened underneath and the shirt was a circle and a half skirt (a full circle skirt with an extra side) to make it very twirly, and added a gold belt so you would not realize they were separate. I did them separate so  it was easy for her to go to the loo and get changed as more often than not at the galas they are all porta loos.

I ordered Molly a special hoodie for her to wear.

This parasol wasin the window at a charity shop and was the perfect colour, must have been there just for us!

For her flowers, i bought a bouquet from ebay , but again was not very happy with it, so ended up buying 3 bunches of silk flowers from Wilkos and taping them together and covering the handle with ribbon

So this was Gala Day and her Crowning!

She was crowned by the local MP Paul Maynard, you can see Fred there holding the cushion.

After Molly made a speech and she did an amazing job far better than i did when it was my turn!

I know she loved ever minute of it and she has waited a long time for it, we are so proud of her x