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February 10, 2007
Vineyard Church Sutton - James Bond Party
This Saturday we had a James Bond party at church and I think that everyone had such a good time. I helped Jon set up the lighting at Overton Grange and as you can see from the photo, it looked great.
I think people (including me) thought that having the party at Overton would be pretty naff for a few reasons, mainly being that it was a school hall but people worked so hard to make the place look brilliant and did such a good job and i think it's one of the best parties we've had at VCS.
Jon and Jason gave our awards to people who had done great jobs at church and Jon had found an amazing band called One Nation. He'd seen them at Green Belt and they were excellent. They came all the way down from Coventry to play for us and were stunning. They got everyone (but me!) up dancing and I think people thoroughly enjoyed the evening. They're website is here and I highly recommend them for any function you want to get people dancing at!
Now, as you can see from my photo, I had made a costume. I don’t normally like fancy dress parties but I had come up with the great idea of making a car out of a card board box. I put this idea to Laraine knowing that I wouldn’t be able to complete this task on my own.
So, the way it was made was thus:
• Stage 1: Get a card board box, cut out the middle and fit it to me! :)
• Stage 2: Laraine Paper Machéd the box on the front to the shape of an Aston Martin. Approx time: 1.5 hours.
• Stage 3: Paint the box grey. Approx time: 30 mins.
• Stage 4: Start finding images on the net. In the end, the only high resolution images that I could find were of an Aston Martin Vantage V8. Now for all you Bond fans out there, you will know that James has never used a Vantage except for the old model V8 but since this was the best I could find, it would have to do!
• Stage 5: Cut out the images and then resizing to fix the box. This was the pain staking bit. Cutting out the images to make sure that they were in proportion to the box. Approx time: 6 hours.
• Stage 6: Stick images to box. I quite enjoyed this bit but that might be because Laraine was in charge at this point and I was just holding bits of tape and doing the quality control! Laraine was amazing by the way and was very patient with me. Approx time: 2 hours.
• Stage 7: Making those fine adjustments. I quite liked this bit too. I printed out larger Aston Martin logos to stick on the front and the back, made wheels from real Aston Martins, printed off a Sony Sat Nav and got an image from Multimap of Overton Grange and combined the two, got a speedometer (from a Mazda!) and then decided to make a windscreen. Approx time: 2 hours.
So all in all, it probably took about 12 hours to make my special Aston Martin and I had a great time wearing it at the party. Unfortunately there was no prize for best costume but that’s probably a good thing as I probably wouldn’t have won it! Thanks to Laraine for helping me make the best costume that I've ever had. It was great!
And thanks to VCS for a great party!
All of the photos from the night can be seen here.
Posted by daveszt at February 10, 2007 11:28 PM
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