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This is the Life With the Lyons En Fête
IT'S been the Lyon family's happy fate to have a lot to do with fêtes! We love 'em, both the indoor and the garden kind.
Mostly, we only have time to go along as visitors. But when a good cause very close to our hearts begged for helpers recently, we gladly lent a hand. Of course, every charity fêtes big objective is to raise as much money as possible for the cause in question. Visitors expect to spend. We figured, though, that they'd give even more freely if their money bought good value or a moment's amusement.
With this in mind, we each decided on our stalls. None of them took too long to prepare. And all turned out to be moneymakers- just as fête intended!
BEN LYON
Ben borrowed Robin and the bathroom scales for his charity effort.
"I guess your weight!" he printed on a piece of card. And on another: " 3d. (about 4 cents) if I'm within 4 lb. either way. FREE if I'm wrong!" Which meant that, to keep the customers threepences rolling in, he had to be a good guesser.
Ben began practising by guessing his own weight, as pictured on the right; with Robin as checker. Then he tied his luck on the-rest of the family and gradually. improved.
This idea is an excellent money maker for good judges of avoirdupois people love trying to catch the guesser out. But, to avoid arguments. Ben recommends making quite sure the scales are accurate. And sometimes, when dealing with a very weighty customer, it's better to guess wrong and pay 3d. (about 4 cents) oneself!
Bebe
She started her stock by canvassing friends for supplied. Most people. she discovered, will spare a new handkerchief or two, sometimes an unwanted scarf as well.
Then she bought plain white hankies and gave them a luxury look with lace edging. And men’s handkerchiefs looked twice their price when embroidered with a neat initial.
Remnants, with hemmed or fringed edges, made some scarves. And Bebe found another quick seller was a two-shaded chiffon scarf made by stitching two separate chiffon squares together round all four sides. Grey and blue, yellow and black, navy and pink were favourite colour combinations.
To decorate the stall, Bebe made some of her handkerchief wares into " flowers." She bunched a crisp hanky from side to side across the centre with a small piece of millinery wire. Then she did the same thing across the other two opposite sides, finally pulling out the four comers into petal shapes.
Bebe courted customers by selling her stock a fraction below equivalent shop prices and was soon sold out.
Mostly, we only have time to go along as visitors. But when a good cause very close to our hearts begged for helpers recently, we gladly lent a hand. Of course, every charity fêtes big objective is to raise as much money as possible for the cause in question. Visitors expect to spend. We figured, though, that they'd give even more freely if their money bought good value or a moment's amusement.
With this in mind, we each decided on our stalls. None of them took too long to prepare. And all turned out to be moneymakers- just as fête intended!
BEN LYON
Ben borrowed Robin and the bathroom scales for his charity effort.
"I guess your weight!" he printed on a piece of card. And on another: " 3d. (about 4 cents) if I'm within 4 lb. either way. FREE if I'm wrong!" Which meant that, to keep the customers threepences rolling in, he had to be a good guesser.
Ben began practising by guessing his own weight, as pictured on the right; with Robin as checker. Then he tied his luck on the-rest of the family and gradually. improved.
This idea is an excellent money maker for good judges of avoirdupois people love trying to catch the guesser out. But, to avoid arguments. Ben recommends making quite sure the scales are accurate. And sometimes, when dealing with a very weighty customer, it's better to guess wrong and pay 3d. (about 4 cents) oneself!
Bebe
“A lacy handkerchief, madam? An initialled one for you, sir?”Bebe made money with a handkerchief and scarf stall.
She started her stock by canvassing friends for supplied. Most people. she discovered, will spare a new handkerchief or two, sometimes an unwanted scarf as well.
Then she bought plain white hankies and gave them a luxury look with lace edging. And men’s handkerchiefs looked twice their price when embroidered with a neat initial.
Remnants, with hemmed or fringed edges, made some scarves. And Bebe found another quick seller was a two-shaded chiffon scarf made by stitching two separate chiffon squares together round all four sides. Grey and blue, yellow and black, navy and pink were favourite colour combinations.
To decorate the stall, Bebe made some of her handkerchief wares into " flowers." She bunched a crisp hanky from side to side across the centre with a small piece of millinery wire. Then she did the same thing across the other two opposite sides, finally pulling out the four comers into petal shapes.
Bebe courted customers by selling her stock a fraction below equivalent shop prices and was soon sold out.
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Richard
”Quench your thirst with a glass of this lovely lemonade!”Thirsty work that's what all fêtes are.
So Richard's home made lemonade stall did a brisk trade throughout the afternoon.
The concentrated lemonade was made and bottled beforehand like this.
Into a large bowl put the thinly peeled rind and juice of four large lemons plus two pound loaf sugar and an ounce citric acid.
Pour on a pint of not quite boiling water, stir thoroughly and leave to stand overnight. Then strain liquid through muslin.
Bottle concentrated syrup until required, then dilute to taste. Multiply quantities as necessary. Amounts in recipe make about thirty medium tumblers.
Be careful to stopper concentrated lemonade securely and store the bottles in a cool place, especially in warm weather.
Richard decorated the glasses with thin circles of lemon, slit to the centre so that they slid over the rims, see picture above. He ladled the diluted lemonade from a small glass tank which had once been an aquarium! But with slices of lemon, instead of fish, floating round inside, it served its new purpose perfectly.
Barbara
“Try a tasty toffee apple, they’re all home made!”Toffee apples are sure of a rapturous reception at any fête, especially among the younger visitors. Barbara made them this way, in batches of three dozen.
Wash and dry thirty-six apples and pinion each one with a wooden meat skewer or other suitable small stick.
Then, in a heavy saucepan, melt 11/2 oz. butter. Add 8 dessertspoons malt vinegar, 12 tablespoons golden syrup and 11/2 teaspoons cream of tartar; cook the mixture quickly for about ten minutes, stirring all the time. Dip apples in the toffee, twisting
each one quickly.. to get an even coating.
Then harden them by dipping in a bowl of cold water for two or three minutes. At a garden fête, Barbara doesn't recommend making toffee apples out of doors.
It's much better to tackle them in the nearest kitchen and carry them outside on a tray. A sheet of transparent paper over the apples will stop them collecting flying dust.
This is a very necessary protection on a breezy day.
This stall came to a sticky end but a highly successful one, too!
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