Showing posts with label fete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fete. Show all posts

Monday, December 5, 2011

An Old Fashioned School Fete

After much anticipation, the school fete finally arrived. The vegie group ladies had said they would manage a plant stall, create a craft stand, make wood fired pizzas, and do face painting.  I got a little carried away and even put up a photo booth and created a Wishing Tree.  We also got into decorating with bunting and hand made signs. There was also a mini garden stand with things to buy on it including hand made bath bombs and pot pourri. Do your great ideas ever get the better of you? Not everything was busy but I was proud to highlight the sort of activities we do as part of our Landcare program.  Across the road was trash and treasure, a cake stall, performances, books, an auction, raffle, and lots of rides.
Making a Xmas tree, crepe paper screwed in balls made great coloured baubles and silver wool served as tinsel, finally a little bit of glitter and some eucalyptus seed caps (operculums) complete the creation.




 The amazing Christine at Slow Living Essentials put this stand together. Visit her blog here  to see our delicious pizzas and more fete pictures.  The pizzas were a huge hit, we sold out at 150 pizzas but could have sold more, they were so delicious.  Plans are afoot to make a bit more use of our wonderful pizza oven.  


 The huge and very popular plant stall.


 The vegie group ladies relaxing at the end of a long day.

 The school vegie patch, mulched and freshly planted with summer crops.





 Paper snow flake garlands made by Preps and sewn together by me.  They really glowed in the sunlight.
  
The wreath making became popular with little and big girls, it was wonderful to see the flowery creations bobbing about the fete.

A seriously cute Michael Jackson performance.
Thank goodness the fete only comes around once every two years.  A beautiful but very long day, felt like I took all weekend to recover. Now to get planting all those plants I brought home.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Flower play, raspberries, and fete preparations

 This week - little Bowerbird discovered that pansies float and called them flower boats.
 We made a lovely arrangement
Which she couldn't keep her hands out of.  I fought it for a couple of minutes and then decided not to worry.
After all, we have plenty.



There was even enough to do some painting with.



 Raspberries coming in by the punnet - about 3 punnets picked by the big Bowerbird today.  
My version of Nasi Goreng made from a home grown harvest of - puple cauliflower, broccolli, purple onions, spring onions, grated carrots, spinach, garlic, coriander, and chives. Such food pride, I only bought rice, kecap manis, and eggs.

  School fete preparations and long days working on an art/ seed project have kept me busy.


 Middle one made this lovely sign for the fete.


 More on the school fete extravaganza to come.