Monday, August 24, 2009

Pixierockets Birthday Bash




























Well we are back from the weekends celebrations at the Cottage of Content--Pixierocket was celebrating her birthday and invited people who regularly contribute on the UK Campsite forum along to celebrate with her.
Some of us dressed as fairies-I just had some pretty wings!
We had a wonderful time meeting up with everyone we speak to but had never met in real life!
As Lynne (pixierocket) has suffered with breast cancer herself she organised a raffle to raise some money for that cause-I donated 2 paintings for that as well.
Then I had the idea of doing a boob painting--after sorting it out with Lynne, we took along the acrylic paints and a 36in x 14in canvas.
I had expected everyone to go into the caravan one at a time and paint them selves,but it didnt turn out like that!
It turned into the most surreal night Ive ever had in my life!
As the word got round as to what we were planning the ladies were coming by and saying they wanted to be part of it-so as the evening progressed there was a stream of ladies queuing up in my little caravan with tops up and a boob in hand waiting to paint or be painted as the case may be!
It seemed no-one was shy--the general comments were that ''we have all got em''
Several of the ladies had been affected by breast cancer, one had had reconstructive surgery after the removal of her breast and she chose to use that boob to paint with-as did Lynne-who painted her scars in a different colour to the rest-so it was a very emotional thing as well as fun. The good thing was the amount of young girls who understood why it was being done and wanted to take part in it.Hopefully they will continue to be 'breast aware ''as they grow up.
The painting will be going onto Ebay shortly to rasie money for Breast Cancer reasearch, after I get as much publicity as I can first--the group photo above is of all the artists who helped to create the masterpiece-

We had a brilliant time, it was such fun to meet up with everyone- the 3 girls from the tent next door are coing down for a class sometime in the near future so it will be great to meet up with them again!
Im off to unpack the cravan now and get everything ready for next weekends trip to Onslow Park.

2 comments:

Trine said...

You're such an angel LOL

Trine said...

You're such an angel LOL