Working at the New Carnival Company: Part 1!
This week I began my volunteering / work experience stint at The New Carnival Company ; regular readers will remember my recent day trip there to meet them. Their 'flagship event', the Mardi Gras will take place on July 1st so I'm here to lend a hand getting ready for that - primarily in the costume department. Monday was all about travelling down to the Isle of Wight from Bournemouth and settling in, although in the afternoon I helped with prepping for Tuesday's school session. This mostly involved a lot of cutting up ribbons: ribbin And making belts / waistbands with double-sided tape and ribbon. Very sticky tricky indeed! After that Gina and I prepped some chest pieces for 'spice' themed costumes made with fabric printed by some of the carnivalers with foam stamps and acrylic paint which turned out really nicely: After that it was home time, but also time for a little explore: Today (tuesday) Gina, Jenny and I went to do a school visit...