Two book presentations and a performance.

I guess you might be tired to read all about the same type of performances and things I do with the Teachers' Association Drama Club but that takes a very big part of my life so I have to show you.
It was last week we attended an evening of a book presentation.
Members of our team (not hubby and I) presented Agis o Mathimagos (Agis the Maths Wizard). It is the story of a little boy who was afraid of Maths! Oh well, I was always afraid of Maths too. The book is by the talented Helena Artzanidou who is also a kindergarten teacher and it was presented at Ianos Bookshop.
The presentation included prose, games and puppets.

 We then all went together at Cafe Palermo. Coffee was good but the atmosphere of this cafe was maginificent! It was filled with antiques and glassware. I was of course mostly attracted to the latter.
And there among other items I spotted a piece I also have, a jar for spoon sweets. The spoon sweet was put in the jar with the lid and the spoons in the one next to it. I have exactly the same pattern as the jar with the lid.

 But look at this collection!

 There was also a collection by a pottery painter but unfortunately I don't remember his name.

 And my favourite piece....

Hubby of course took much better pictures!

 And last but not least my favourite of his photos, a lamp on top of one of the dressers.

Our team (again not hubby and I ) are also presenting this Friday at 7.30 at Protoporia Bookstore the book Zahara . I had blogged about the previous presentation of that book  here. Those of my local friends who missed that presentation might want to attend this time.
Last but not least this Sunday our team (me included) will present our children's play Koutornithia at Thermi Cultural Centre for the Kinoniko Iatreio (A free clinic for people in need, unemployed and uninsured). You can attend the performance for free and you can also bring medicine to give to the clinic to cover their needs. We will be happy to see you there!

It will be another long weekend and I haven't even yet blogged about the previous one!!!!!!

A Christmas Bling Bling

Remember I had attended the Bling Bling Workshop at dear Anna's InMyCloset comfortable kitchen?You can read all about it here.
Well I ended up with this SEA ! I wasn't very satisfied with it but it was a first one.

 So I was trying to find the perfect carton box to use to make another one. And I found it.
So here is the box.

But first I had to prepare the word I was going to make into a Bling Bling!And since it is that time of the year again I decided it would be CHRISTMAS.

 I counted the length of the box and divided by the number of letters.

Then I printed the letters accordingly.

I cut them one by one and put them in place to see how they would look.

 Then traced all around the letters on the box and cut the holes with a sharp knife.

That's how the box looks on the inside.

 I then used Atlacol glue to stick on the inside a thin transparent paper that had little golden stars on.

 Then using my letters as a template I cut letters from red carton paper but a bit bigger than the template.

 I put them on the box but wasn't really happy so I glued some red fabric ribbon on the top and bottom line of the box to cover some minor ugly cuts.

 Then glued my red letters in place.

 Then covered the top part of the box with red paper too.

 And here's the Christmas bling bling box!

 Afterwards I added inside the box three series of battery operated Christmas lights and stuck their little lights with paper tape in a way that the lights would lit the open spaces between the letters.

 And there it is!

 Hubby mentioned that the letters H and R didn't really show so I cut them a bit more afterwards.

 The difficult part was to take a good picture of it when the lights were on. All my efforts were blurred.

 Finally with the use of my camera setting on "Fireworks" this was the best I could do!

 As you can see the lights do not come out of the box, somehow I made a shadow box Bling Bling!
Thank you Anna for the lovely workshop and the idea! And since Anna is organising a competition I am joining in with this satisfactory creation!
Hope this tutorial will make you make one too!Come on get started for Christmas!
 edit: With this blogpost I take part in the link part of Craftaholic!