The Ballito Prawn and Jazz Festival



Fun in the sun at the Ballito Prawn and Jazz Festival



It's time for the Ballito Prawn and Jazz Festival this year. Mom, grandpa and I went to this last year and we thoroughly enjoyed it. There were cooking demonstrations, a flea market, a motorbike showjumping show, live music and crafts of all sorts. It was really an enjoyable experience.

Date: 8 - 10 July 2011

Venue: Ballito

Contact Details:

Leanne Rencken
Cell: 082 4599 567
Fax: 086 512 9640
Email: leanne@dcevents.co.za

Directions: Click here to download the map

Programme: Click here to download the programme of events
Website: http://www.ballitoprawnfestival.co.za/

Ballito Prawn and Jazz Festival

Saturday turned out to be a little different to what I had originally planned, but I can’t complain. I did get to Ceramic Craft Studio to pick up the ceramic snails that Katia and I want to mosaic, but I didn’t get to the I Heart Market.

These are some of the tiles I'm going to mosaic him with.

At the festival I bought a heart blank to mosaic, to see how it's going to come out.

Mom, grandpa and I took a drive out to Ballito for the Prawn and Jazz Festival, which was held at Collisheen Estate.

It was great, there was so much to look at including guys flying through the air on dirt bikes, a big flea market, arts, crafts, food galore, a farmers market, a 4x4 track, rock climbing walls and even a funfair. We had lunch at the SPAR tent and although the queue was a mile long, it went by quickly. All of us had the prawn and chicken bunny chow. They were nice, but could have done with a few more prawns. I bought a few small things, and found a few more things that I would have like to have bought, but didn’t. I bought a heart made out of wood (pic below) because I think I’d like to make these and sell them in my (soon to be) online shop. Let me know what you think and if you think that it’s a good idea that I include them. We were blessed to have perfect Durban winter weather, sunshine and no rain. I didn’t need a jersey at all, but I certainly do need to get myself a pair of sunglasses. My Oakleys are so old that they’ve actually perished, poor things.

These boys (the one was only 17!) were literally FLYING through the air!

We bought two mixed mushroom kebabs. I think I'm going to use the shrooms to make a mushroom risotto tomorrow.

Pics of the heart that I want to attempt to make and sell. What do you think? This cost me R80, and I know that it didn't cost that much to make.

 

After the festival we popped to the Lifestyle Centre in Ballito. It’s such a nice centre, but we didn’t stay long because we’d been walking for hours around the festival and were tired. I even started dozing off in the car on the way home! We left the house this morning at around 10ish, but only got home just before 5pm! So it’s been a long day, but a good one.

I was using mom’s point-and-shoot so I couldn’t zoom in as far as I would have liked with the bike pics.

Saturday Plans!

Ok, Saturday plans are sorted.
I'm going to head to the I Heart Market in the morning (Durban North) to look at the drawings that I saw there last month. I really want one of those.

Then after that (or maybe before, depends on what mom wants to do), we are going to head to the Ceramic Craft Studio (in Malvern - completely the opposite direction to Durban North) to pick up ceramic snails for myself and Katia to mosaic. I don't know what colours she is going to do hers, but mine is going to be a mixture of warm oranges and reds.

Jewellery

I thought I'd post my favourite pieces of jewellery that I made this weekend. I had fun doing this, although I really am turning into a hermit these days...

This one has a glazed red clay bead which I've turned into a pendant. The beads that go around your neck are made of wood. It's very earthy and chunky, which I like.

These are made with white flowers cut out of shell (ready bought). I looped the silver flower and bead onto a small length of chain (would have been really useful to have the Handy Helper when I made these) to get a dangling effect. They're really sweet.

This is my favourite piece of the lot. The charms ranged from R4 to R38, but I love the end result. The beads are made of stone and were R10 for three. That is the sole reason I don't make and sell the bracelets, because some of them would just work out far too costly... what would happen if I started putting time into that??? Gosh no... I'm just loving making them.

I call this one "Purity Bracelet"

I bought the white crosses from a place called Silver Hills Gems, which is in Hartebeespoort (sp?) Dam last year sometime, but haven't figured out what I wanted to do with it. I actually bought three of them. I may make another one for one of the girls in my office because she loved it so much. If you were here, I'm afraid I would be inundating you with hand-made beaded jewellery.

Mother’s Day 2010

I made mom a mosaic “mug” which is meant to be used as a vase or a paintbrush holder, or for whatever she feels like sticking in it. It came out quite nice, but jeepers, what a mission to get everything stuck down without it running all over the place. Her mug came complete with shortbread biscuits and chocolates.