Up The Farway Tree

Fundraising

I was holding off blogging about the Dead Famous Halloween party until we had a final total, but I thought I better write something before people thought I had been eaten by a monster ;-)

Better to say it in pictures (more to come, but this will give a good idea!)


We had a coffin (yes, it's real) set up with a ghoul in it (whose head lit up).  We got people to pose in front of the scene for photos and then they could buy the picture in a keyring, which we were making up on the night!

Work friends.  Jamie won best fancy dress for the shower (replica of the scene in Karate Kid when he goes to a fancy dress party)

Whole team of helpers - Kirsty and Dougie, Victoria, Gregg, Harminder, Obie, Mandy and us

Kirsty doing everyone's makeup before we started!  Below she makes up Lauren (professional photographer who took pictures for us)

Andrew as Edward Scissorhands!!!

Gillian and Pip

Some of the fab decorations we had donated!!  The place looked amazing with lots of gory heads, spooky ghouls, tombstones and cobwebs everywhere.  I got lots of LED black and orange tealights and put them in jam jars with spiders stuck on them, so we had these on the tables. 

Everyone had a great night and we have raised almost £1000 from the night and donations!  We are still waiting to hear about a possible large donation through a contact so will keep you posted on the final total!  I must admit it was probably more stressful in some ways than the ball because quite a lot of people let us down on the night and didn't come along and it was much harder to sell tickets than for the ball -despite the price difference!  I think if people decide to come to a ball they will commit but for a smaller party they are more likely to pull out.  Luckily we had arranged with the venue to allow members of the public on later on, so it was actually very busy and got donations and sold raffle tickets to these people too!  We also had a lady reading Runes for us, which went down really well and Kirsty had made up lovely sweetie bags which we sold on the night.  All in all I think it was a big success, although I think I might still be recovering!

I then spent the rest of the week trying to make cards to sell at mums charity auction - again for The Butterfly Trust.  This was last weekend and was a massive success - she raised almost £2000 in one night - professional!!  It is always a fab night :-)

Will be back soon with my general chit chat :-)