Monday, June 25, 2012

Shobdon Flower Food and Drink Festival 2012

The flowers in the church for the Flower Festival were stunning this year....
this arrangement was done in this bowl of melted wax....
at the end of every pew was a beautiful arrangement..
what a beautiful display around the old yew tree..
We were in our usual corner,it was a bit cramped when we first arrived to set up on Thursday afternoon as the awful wet weather had caused all sorts of problems for the organisers. Some of the people who should have been outside in gazebos were put in the marquee..however when we arrived on Friday morning it had been resolved and we had a bit more space to spread out over for me to demonstrate.With the tarpaulin down on the ground everything stayed nice and dry...
As most of you know I have been getting into the photography more and more lately, and have had some prints done of some of my favourite ones.....I will be creating a new page on my website this week hopefully with all of the available prints on there...there will be lots of sizes available....6in x 4in , 4ins x 6ins,,8in x 6in, 6in x 8in, 10in x 8in  and 8in x 10in..all mounted and ready to frame in white,cream or black mounts.They proved very popular at this years show...and there will be more new pictures added as I take them!
Poppies are always popular...
but I love these cow parsley...
I love this one--taken on a cold frosty morning....
Friday is always quiet at Shobdon....so we ended up playing with the encaustic wax....Penny,Virgina,Lynne and me ended up making some wax willie pictures that would make great bookmarks for 50 Shades Of grey ;-))
The encaustic wax was very popular again ...here is Lucy with her lovely shades of blues and greens...
and Bethany...
Ella with her masterpiece..
Grace came back fro a second go--and made a beautiful job of her bigger one.She wanted to do something for her GSE art course work where is studying Rastafarian, she used the colours well....red,yellow and green and used the special tool to create beads in the same colours over the top of the background colours..

Millie came along to have a go at the oil painting....we both had a  8in x 12in canvas and she followed my instructions carefully.. within 15 mins she had created a beautiful seascape that amazed everyone who watched it happen...her dad Matt managed to get it on his camera...
say "Cheese" LOL
Well Done Millie
Georgia had great fun with the encaustic wax....she did an abstract and a lovely landscape..
This is the lovely Penny who had the stall next to us..she was a laugh a minute...she went and had some face painting done---the lady who did it was one of the best Ive seen....there were some stunning creations walking round the show all weekend!

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