Titirangi Glow Festival December 3rd 2016

Every year at this time, Titirangi Village has "Glow Festival" where they light up the entire Village with 7 kilometers of pretty Christmas Lights.  There is lot's of stalls selling all kinds of things, as well as various entertainment for the kids. They have a big stage where well known NZ singers entertain the crowds. And of course, Santa is there too! These are some of my photo's from this years festival...

These lovely ladies asked if I would take their photo in front of their truck.  I happily obliged, and then a gentleman joined them in the photos! They were Traffic Control, directing the traffic so there were no accidents.  I have no idea of their names, but they know they are appearing on my blog and will be waiting to see these photo's of themselves! Hope you enjoy your photo's!

The photo above is of the lovely Jackie Clarke, one of NZ's most well known singers!  She is just so much fun! 

Above is "Harold The Giraffe"!  I have 'met' him several times at the Festival!  He is very tall!

Another photo of the lovely Traffic Control girls, who did an excellent job of keeping the traffic flowing and making sure everyone was safe on the road.  It was a busy night and there were lots of people crossing from one side of the road to the other.  These girls kept us all safe:-)  Thanks girls!

OMG!  I love those cute lacy pants this lady has on! I want some! She was one of the singers with Jackie Clarke .

Here's the group of singers all ready to entertain us! 

"Harold!"  Where did you get those eyelashes?!  Us girls would die for lashes like that!

This is the huge blackboard for everyone to sign...and yes, I forgot to to sign it again! I see "Harold" signed it!

These guys are a few of the local Titirangi Volunteer Fire Brigade.  I tried to get them to all look at the camera but it wasn't happening! Can you believe it, these guys are volunteer so they don't even get paid for putting out fires and attending accidents etc?  Not good!

OMG!  I fell in love with the music from this group!  They were playing a musical instrument called a Marimba.  Their music was from Zimbabwe from a tribe called The SHONA Tribe!!  I kid you not!  MY tribe!  I spoke to one of the members and told her that was MY name!  I came home and got on youtube and found their music videos.  It was sooooooooooooo good!  I'm going to get one of their cds because I absolutely love their music.  The Marimba has pipes underneath and the wider the pipes, the deeper the sound.  They had about 7 different Marimbas and all the members were able to play each one.  They all swapped around so they ended up playing all the instruments.  It was SO good!

This little cutie was the youngest 'dancer' in the crowd, and was having a fun time dancing to the music!

And there is he is...Santa!  

 A pretty face in the crowd!  Love the colours!

Above and below are two of the Mahari Marimba group.  The music was unique and had a fast beat, and you couldn't help but dance to it!  You just couldn't keep still!  How I managed to take photo's that are in focus I have no idea!

 

In the photo below you can partially see the pipes underneath the instrument. 

Below is two girls, Mikayla and Bridget from Rhythm and Steps dance Academy.  They looked very Christmassy in their red outfits! 

Looks like they are having fun! 

And last but not least is this cute girl in her beautiful head piece.  Such pretty colours!

Ok, that's all for today.  I hope you enjoyed your visit today!  {HUGS} from me to YOU:-)

Another Santa Parade!

Well we all know who this guy is, don't we!  I have to say, he gets around, because I am seeing him everywhere at the moment!  These photos were all taken at the New Lynn Lions Christmas Parade last Saturday.  A beautiful warm sunny day:-)

Some of the pipe band, and yes, they had Bagpipes! 

Some lovely ladies whom I think were from a dance group that was at the Parade. 

 Woohoo!  Bagpipes!!

 A basket full of lollypops!  And yes, I got one!  Although I am sure it isn't gluten free:-(

 A cute and colourful train makes a great resting place for tired bodies!

Oh my gosh, what a cute wee face she has!  Love those lips and eyes!

This wee boy was sitting int he Police car wearing the Policemens hat!  The kids loved this and the queue was very long!  I was lucky and got a lot of photo's of the kids wearing the police hat.

Just love the artwork! 

Love the butterfly, so soft and pretty! 

While sitting in the Police car, the kids were allowed to try out the siren and the loud speaker.  This created lot's of fun and laughter! 

This little girl was a bit shy, but managed a smile for me!

 OMG look at this little cutie pie!  She was soooo cute in her little red Christmas scarf!

Below is a very tall Christmas Elf!  Way taller than everyone else!

 Love those rainbows!  Lot's of kids had their faces painted, some with animals faces and others with rainbows!  So much fun!

This little girl was riding one of Santas Reindeer! 

OMG what a cute face! 

More rainbow face painting!  So pretty! 

 Some colourful ladies (and man) with the fairy!  I have photographed this fairy many times at various parades.  She is so nice and the kids just LOVE her!  (Me too!)

A close up of the fairy!  Love the decorations in her hair! 

Some lovely dancing ladies.  Very nice to watch! 

And this was written on the back of a t. shirt! Such true words!  I took hundreds of photo's, way too many to put on here!  Hope you enjoyed your visit! {HUGS} from me to YOU:-)

"Love, Hope, and Joy"

I have been working on these three jars for the last couple of days.  I finished them this afternoon, yay!  These are for a friends birthday.  I painted the jars using some enamel paint, then I hot glued the jute band around the top of each jar.  I added the butterflies and flowers, with the strings of pearls under the butterflies.  The I die cut a heart to match each jar and stamped the words, "Love, Hope, and Joy".  I attached these by threading the string of pearls through a hole I punched in each heart.  Sooooo much fun!! 

Below is a close up of the butterfly and flowers. 

Here's the blue jar...below.... 

 ...and the decorations on the top...

 ...and below is the lavender coloured jar...

 ...I have to admit these were so much fun to make and I couldn't wait to see the finished product!

 In the photo above, you can see the glitter brush I used on the butterfly wings.  It isn't showing up too clearly, but it is there!

Seeing as I had some butterflies to spare, I also decorated this smaller jar, and placed a candle inside it.  I had to make a quick trip my local Op Shop to get some more jars, as I had run out of ones I already had.  Luckily they had plenty to choose from!

 Thank you for dropping by today, I hope you had fun and were inspired!  Come back soon:-)

{HUGS} from me to YOU:-)

Two Christmas Jars!

These are two small jars I decorated for Christmas.  I am using up bits and bobs that I have in my stash.  It's amazing what I am finding!  I die cut the flowers and the stars using some hessian material. The top photo is the front of each jar while the bottom one is of the back of each jar.  I used paper studs to hold the flowers and the stars together, and hot glued the flowers etc to the jars.  I die cut some sparkly see through gold material to put over each flower or star.  Hard to see on here, I know!

The tiny stars on the jar on the right hand side are actually a lovely SPARKLY mint green colour...not like the pale washed out colour they are showing up here!  Oh well!  Deep *sigh*!

Thanks for dropping by today, I hope you enjoyed your visit!  {HUGS} from me to YOU:-)