the Playful Market @ ABC: celebrating

To all our wonderful Playful Market team

who helped make our July Market an amazing experience

Thankyou

so kindly for
helping to:

make decorations

approach real estate businesses

create graphics

invite people

encourage creative minded people to 'Full Circle'

to make & collect 110 items of 12 colours for the RTH

to move the furniture about

to put up signs

to go food shopping

to find helpers to help

to greet people at our doors

to serve people food

to sizzle the sausages

to make the table cloths

to wind a pom pom or two

to saw & nail the grand gateway for the RTH

to hang the decorations

to mark out the stall holder spaces

for a PM sound track

to move tables

design banners

to set up lights

to find fridge & freezer space

to donate &/or sort 2nd hand books

& glass jars & 110 egg cartons

to paint 110 egg cartons in 12 colours

& to label them

to organise the Lob-a-choc table

to write up chalk board sandwich boards

to make sure we had BBQ's that had gas to go!

to break up blocks of chocolate

to set up the Prayers & Squares quilt display

to make a spiders web

to bring an emergency magnetic fishing rod

to fire up the fairy floss with thus required extension cord

to write & draw arrows all over the Ashburton footpaths

to set up the signs

to personel the 2nd hand books

to stick up-cycled labels in each of the 2nd hand books

to hang the bunting flags

to sew the bunting flags

to set up the flower jars

to glue eyes on the rock friends

to cut out the lady bugs

to bake the gingerbread

to order & collect the sauasages

to meet the Aussie Farmers & gratefully accept 30 litres of donated milk

to arrange the pinboards

to create a flyer

to photocopy the flyer

to scan the church plan

to hitch up the tarp ...

for dreaming up all the RTH ideas

to sweep the footpaths

for baking for the Homemade Goodies stall

for making & knitting an amazing collection for the Homemade Goodies stall

to bring in emergency tan bark

to move the umbrella

to make the soup

to contact our amazing PM stall holders

to greet the stall holders

to write a PM blog ...

to take the photos

for being the amazing Clown Marcella

for making wonderful balloon animals

to create the FULL CIRCLE project

to hand the Full Circle project

to photograph the Full Circle project

to prepare & paint the eager faces

for dressing up in costume & playing a part in the RTH

to follow behind & replenish the RTH

for moving very large cardboard circles in a ute, twice!

to clean up the rubbish

to make sure there was toilet paper & soap

for fetching me drinks & food ...

for just getting to & packing up ...

for taking down the signs

for selling off the extra defrosted pies

for moving back all the furniture

for counting the monies raised!!!!

over $5000 people

pretty wonderful for a rainy, wintry Olympic viewing Saturday we thinks!!

whooo hooo!!

We hope you had fun!!
We certainly appreciate your gift of time & talent!

ABC you make an amazing team

& we are so proud of you guys!!!

ABC is a wonderful place to be ...

for lots more photos go over here ...

Our next Playful Market is on the 8th of December & we have lots of
wonderful Christmas themed ideas happening .....
We do hope that you will consider playing a part once again

& hope you have great fun doing so while spending time
with others from our ABC community!

Let me know if you'd like to be involved!

We'd also really love to hear from you with any ideas or contributions or
feedback so if you'd like to take the time to email us back we'd truly
appreciate your efforts.

Many thanks
Blessings,

Wendy
on behalf of the Playful Market Committee
CC: Aretha & Christin