OUR FIRST MINI SHOW.....

The morning of Monday 4th of June 2012 saw us in a marquee on the playing fields at Park View getting ready for the Jubilee Field day.  The sun was shining and the marquee looked beautiful....

The first job was to help Julie put up our Jubilee bunting.....and it looked fab....

Then came the nervous wait to see if anyone would bring entries for the competition....

But of course they did...and we had some fantastic entries.....

And the winners were....

First Prize for the Best Decorated Jubilee Cake....

Second Prize....

Third Prize....

First Prize in the Best Floral Decoration....

This was not a biased decision (my daughter won) she was the only entry !

First Prize (Joint winners) for Best Decorated Jubilee Crown....

Second and Third Prizes.....

First Prize for Best Jubilee Craft....

Second Prize.......

Third Prize....

First and Second Prize for Best Celebration Photograph both went to Julie Norman (Lytham Belle and Park View's Park Ranger)...

First Prize for Best Jubilee picture.....

Second Prize....

Third Prize......

  

Thank you to everyone who took part, you were all great and it was really difficult to pick out winners.....

The Field day was a fantastic success and we all had great fun, let's hope that this turns into a annual event... I think Lytham Belles WI would definitely love to be involved again....

JOIN IN THE FUN ON JUNE 4TH....

Community Jubilee Competition for all

HAVE A FIELD DAY

MONDAY 4TH JUNE 2012

Park View 4U are having a “Have a Field Day” on Monday 4th June 2012 , this family fun day will take place on Park View Playing Fields and will have something for all the family, as well as sporting activities on the Field  Lytham Belles will be hosting traditional competitions in the marquee.

The competition is open to all with no age limits.

The categories are as follows:-

Best Jubilee Floral Arrangement - any arrangement using either real or artificial flowers along a Jubilee theme.....

Best Jubilee Cake - This can be a full sized cake,

or even a small cupcake.....

Best Jubilee Craft - We will leave this one up to you, what is your favourite craft ?

Stained glass ?......

Needle craft ?.....

knitting ?....

It is entirely up to you.......

Best decorated Jubilee crown - one for the children, make yourself a crown fit for royalty.....

And here is a link for a  CROWN TEMPLATE to get you started....

Best Jubilee picture - this is another category which is quite open, the only stipulation is that it is A4 size and has a Jubilee theme, it can be on paper, card or canvas and any medium can be used, paint, pastel, chalk, collage, embroidery....

Best Celebration photograph - we hope that you can have some fun with this one, it can be a photo of any celebration; sporting, birthday, graduation, christening etc, have a root through your photos and see what you can come up with.....

 

You can come into the marque to 'stage' your entry from 10am, and judging will start at 11am.

Park View 4U would like to encouraging families to come down to the park, so why not pack a picnic and come down to join in the fun.

I hope that this has given you a few ideas and some inspiration, we look forward to seeing you on the 4th June, pop by and say hello.....

For more details contact cath@parkview4u.org.uk or Maria Tierney lythambelles@virginmedia.com

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A BEETLE DRIVE ?....

Are you ready for a night of breathless excitement and laughter ?...

Lytham Belles May meeting 6th May 2012

7.30pm, Victory Hall, Lytham

 Cath Powell Community Development Manager of ParkView 4U will be our speaker at the meeting.

This will be followed by a Beetle Drive, how retro can we get !

The Beetle game was massive in the 60's,with Beetle drives in venues all about the country, so it won't be surprising that many of us won't have been to a Beetle drive or even heard of one before.

My Father once told me a story of a group of pensioners who stayed in our Blackpool guest House in 1963, going to what they thought was a  'Beetle Drive' at the ABC theatre (now The Syndicate) only to be faced by hoards of screaming girls going to see 'The Beatles' !

I thought it might be a good idea to give the basic rules of Beetle :

We will be playing in PAIRS as this is apparently quicker thus enabling us to fit in the full 12 games which make up a 'Beetle Drive'

We will sit at a table of 4, the players sitting opposite will make up a pair. The tables will be numbered.

One player in the pair throws the dice, BOTH players draw the body parts on their beetle card; e.g.one player throws a 6 and BOTH players draw a body on their cards.

In the version we will use,

* 6 lets you draw the body
* 5 - the head (which you must have before being allowed to draw the eyes or feelers),
* 4 - the tail
* 3 - one leg
* 2 - one feeler
* 1 - an eye.

BOTH players score for all the body parts they have drawn. In our version the highest score for a fully drawn beetle is 39 points. E.g. if you only got a body (6), head (5), one eye (1) and four legs (12) your score would be 24 - does that make sense ?

The first pair to complete a beetle and shout 'BEETLE' are the winners of that game.

At the end of the game, the winning pair (the ones with highest score) from each table of 4 players move up on to the next table and the losing pair move down a table and pair up with the other players at that table - they do not stay as a pair but form a new pair.

THE OVERALL WINNER IS STILL AN INDIVIDUAL PLAYER - WITH THE HIGHEST POINTS FROM ALL 12 GAMES.

OK - so it might not sound like a night that could cause breathless joy and laughter, but I am sure it will be great fun and a fab way to get to know your fellow 'Belles'........

BUNTING FOR PARK VIEW.......

I was shamed today !. A lady emailed me this morning to say how she had been following Lytham Belles with interest in the press and also through this blog, but, the blog had not been kept up to date !

She was of course right, and so with my hand slapped, here I am trying to rectify my lack of blogging...

Talking of press, we are in the currant (May) issue of Lancashire Life:

 

Our last meeting (April) saw us all making bunting pennants for Park View cafe and community centre, we had been asked to work to the themes of red, white and blue, The Jubilee, The Olympics or Lytham....

I think that the pennants look fantastic and surprisingly all very different....

The finished bunting will be presented to Cath Powell Park Views Community Development Manager who will the speaker at our next meeting on  Sunday 6th May 2012...

Don't forget to look out for the bunting when the new community centre and cafe opens......

WHAT A TURN OUT...

What a great turn out we had for our first meeting, I was truly stunned as people just kept coming through the door, I was a bit worried before the meeting as I had a lot of messages from people saying that they could not make it - what if no one showed ? - but then they started arriving, and we ended up with 65 ! 

Pam, Ann and Shirley of the Lancashire Federation membership support committee were there to set us up and we had 12 volunteers for the committee.

The main Committee officers are..

President - me- Maria Tierney

 

Secretary - Sharon Cookson.

and

 

Treasurer - Jane Wright.

 

Other committee members are as follows;

 

Louise Martin

Sarah MacKay

Stacey Reed

Charlotte Craig

Penny Quarmby

Michelle Collins

Debs Rimmer

Lynda Drummond

Teresa Eames

 

I am looking forward to getting together with them all at our first committee meeting on Tuesday 21st February 2012.

 

We had almost a full page spread in the LSA Express on 09//02/12 and will also have an editorial in Love Lytham& St Annes magazine which should come through your door anytime soon...

ONE MORE SLEEP !...

Only one more sleep to go until our first meeting....

Starting to feel a bit nervous now, mixed with lots of excitement though...

I am sure we will all look our best for the Lytham St.Annes Express photographer comes...

We also having Alex of 'Love Lytham' coming to do a piece on us ....

And there will be homemade cake, what more could you want...

Just hope everyone turns up ! or I will have to eat all the cake !



WHAT ROCKS YOUR BOAT.....

The time for our very first LYTHAM BELLES meeting is rapidly approaching;

Sunday 5th February 2010

7.30 90pm

Victory Hall, Lytham.

On the night of the first meeting everyone will be given a questionnaire to fill in detailing the types of things that we would like to do as a group and what we hope to get out of it.

I thought it might me an idea to start the ball rolling by making some suggestions....

So, have you a curiosity for crochet...

(Gorgeous grannies).

Like a go at sketching of perhaps potting...

Want to become a domestic goddess...

Do you have a secret desire to try burlesque ?....

Want to find a voice and stand up for what you believe.....

How about having a go at making some jewellery?.....

And I know its a bit of a stereotype, but where would the W.I be without jam ?....

 We could make our own group quilt....

Sushi making anyone ?...

or maybe you fancy a good knit and a natter...

And then when you have learnt all these new skills you can enter the local W.I.show ...

These are just a few suggestions and really the tip of the iceberg, there are so many things we can do.

Over to you now, what do you fancy, or is there something that you could teach the rest of us ?

Please feel free to leave a comment....