The Norfolk Island Show 2008

I made a comment on my facebook account during the week that I was still deciding how much to put in the show this year.

I got a comment back from my brother in law, Dave that 'you will have to build a bigger trophy room for this year'.

Last year at this time, Dave, my sister Mandy and niece Bronte were here, we were all very excited at entering items into our first show here and so were probably over adventurous with the amount of entries.

I messaged Dave back that 'I was definitely NOT attempting to enter the same amount of items and have promised myself not to make a pavlova at 11:30 pm as I didn't have Dave to share a failed flat pancake pavlova with for breakfast on the day of the show.

So true my my word, there was no last minute baking and no handicrafts or art, due to us only arriving home from holidays the week before....... but, that didn't mean that there wasn't plenty to win or grin about.

1st and 2nd place for the Fletcher Christian Acalypha leaves.

W were proud that Fletcher Christian apartments also won the best commercial garden category this year.

1st place for my eggs.

Teddy (drawing) and Sienna (painting) seeing their awards, both for First place.

Mary's 1st place marmalade.Lynlee's award winning beans sold for $6 at the crazy auction afterwards. 3 x Tomatoes(rare at the moment) sold for $35 and 2 Tomatoes sold for $18, luckily it was all for charity.

Beautiful cakes, the first 2 by Simone Emms.

My proudest moment is winning first place for one of the things that Norfolk Island is most famous for, Guava Jelly.

I won both Red and Yellow guava jelly.

My Red guava jelly was made in March & is a lovely dark red colour from Guava's down in my friend Eve's valley.

We ate our supplies long ago, but I hid this jar away in the medicine cabinet for the show.

I had to drive around looking for Yellow guava's(pink flesh inside) I had to beat the wandering cows to the Guava bushes from Steele's point to Cascade.

It was worth it.

PHOTOGRAPHY

the photos need to be entered the week before the show. There was no underwater photography this year, but Sunsets and Weddings were a new category.

Of course, there were plenty of fantastic sunset shots as Norfolk Island has so many scenic vantage points to take sunset photos from.

But I was surprised to be the only entrant in the wedding section, I thought at least a few 70's wedding photos may come out of the closet for a laugh, but as they didn't, I was awarded First, Second and Third in the wedding photography section, so can now classify myself as an award winning Wedding Photographer.

1st place for my Bounty day photo of Bernie.

2nd place for my B&W animal pose of Roany the smiling dog

3rd place for hibiscus flower study.

Another fantastic day.

You can see more on Mary's blog

http://norfolkheavenonearth.blogspot.com/

Fun at the Norfolk Show.

Well, I always say that you have to be in it to win it, and that was the case at this years Norfolk Island A&H show.


We were honored to be part of the show and were so excited at the entry price of 50 cents for each item, that I probably entered twice as much as I should have, but as an entry for one of my paintings was $20 at the Sunshine Coast show, 50 cents was a real bargain.


My photography had to be entered a week prior to the show, but on the morning, We had to get up bright and early to pick and label all the hibiscus to enter them By 9am.


I had been up late the night before making a cheesecake, scones and a failed pavlova that wasn't beaten enough, as Teddy woke up at 11pm- ish and said, Mum, could you stop making that noise, I am trying to sleep!


In the end, the kids(who were still asleep when I picked their flowers) and I had entered our scones, cheesecake, cut flowers geraniums,hibiscus and even acalypha leaves,black and white drawings,acrylic paintings,mosaic, jewellery, article in Macrame,hand painted fabric article,sculpture, many photos in black and white and colour and multiples in every subject(about 19 subjects), avocado's &our(very small) carrots,and would have entered our snow peas, but had eaten them all fresh from the garden 2 days earlier.
It was really nice to share our first Norfolk Show with Mandy, Dave and Bronte as well as Emily and Sarah. We watched the girls competing in the equestrian events and both did very well..... see Mary's blog click here http://devonhouse.blogspot.com/ for more details on the show.





We then got to enjoy the rides a horse carousel that I remember being on at the Christmas picnics as a child and a huge blow up slide, we got a showbag, this one contained a whole packet of Tim-Tams.







Then after the opening ceremony, which we ate tim-tams during, we headed inside the hall to excitedly see our prize haul.






As Mary said, Fletcher Christian apartments scooped the prize pool for the hibiscus, with Teddy, Sienna and Bronte winning first, second and third place for the single and double hibiscus and also for the only enries of acalypha leaves(redbush).


I do believe that we have some of the best collection of Hibiscus plants on the Island.


As we walked around the hall, we saw some amazing produce and creativity. We all got prizes, Mary, Kim, the Kids and myself,
I proudly won the best uncooked cheesecake and Kim won the best cooked one.
I also won a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for my underwater photography and other scattered 2nd's and 3rd's for my other photography(actually,all the underwater photos shown are mine)
and prizes for my mosaic using beach glass that Mandy got off the wall at the last minute to submit, an acrylic painting, jewellery and the funniest one was the only entry in the Macrame section, so I won 1st prize for the friendship bracelet that I had made as a demonstration at Marys a few days before............. see Mary's blog again, under lavender and friendship and you will see how it was made.

My award winning Macrame Everyone looking at a Photo featuring Liam on Bounty day that won first place.

My big laughs(other than winning the above prizes) for the day was Sienna pinching Brandt's dagwood dog's after he had so looked forward to one all year, and when Teddy watched the horseshoe making demonstration, he asked the Smithy if he could make some shoes for his duck as he didn't have a horse!

Sarah, Emily, Anna and Amy in the fancy dress section, their horse is Toto

Bronte with her Adam and Eve vegetable sculptures, she is pointing to Adams extra carrot, not very well hidden behind a parsley leaf.

We all had a fabulous day and can't wait for next year already!