Something that Orla and I love doing is organising parties
and events. We love every aspect of it from start to finish, but generally
enjoy the decorating part the most! We’ll start with an idea, which will
usually grow and grow until it’s pretty much the most expensive unachievable
idea in the entire world! You think that London 2012 Olympics was impressive?
Sit in on one of our brainstorms and it will look like a local playground
compared! Once we have the basic theme and huge idea, we then scale it down
until it becomes a reality. This is why we’ve often been described as ‘blue sky
thinkers’. (We’ve also been told that we are exhausting to listen to, but that’s
another story). In a nut shell - anything is possible…..just maybe not on the
same scale that you initially hoped for!
Tomorrow evening we will be hosting at a charity event for Great Ormond Street
Hospital in London. My sister wanted to hold a quiz night to fundraise after a
family friend passed away whilst under GOSH’s care. The hospital were fantastic
and worked endlessly to ensure that the best care was given at all times. We
were asked to help decorate and source raffle prizes for the event, which we
have been doing over the last 2 months.
So! Time has absolutely flown and tomorrow is the big day! We have had raffle
prizes donated from left right and centre and have great things up for grabs!
We’re hoping to raise £500, and whatever we raise is also going to be doubled
by Disney! As I’m sure you can imagine, we are working tirelessly now to ensure
that everything comes together and goes without a hitch! There have been all hands on deck with people doing bunting
making to decorate the hall, multiple meetings to arrange room layout, attire,
and absolutely everything you could possibly imagine!
Getting raffle prizes together has been a challenging job to
say the least. We’ve spent many weekends, evenings and lunchtimes going to
local businesses to ask for support and help and sent more emails to companies
than I care to count! It felt a little like a scene from a film with a montage
of doors being closed in our faces at one point. One local retailer (who will
remain nameless) even shouted at us when we went in to tell them about the
event. Charming!
Last night, Orla and I took a late night trip to Kingston to
collect one of the final raffle prizes from the Rose Theatre! It was an hour and a half round trip
and it’s fair to say that we were exhausted after an already busy day of work
and filming some of our very first YouTube video! (More about that in the next few days)!!
Enjoying a hard earned diet coke in the car en route home from Kingston!
All of the hard work seems to be paying off now though as we
have over £900 worth of prizes to raffle and over 100 people due to join us on
the night! We’ll be sure to take pictures and update you on how much we raised
and how the event goes!
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