St. Mary's Organ Fund Coffee and Cake
Afternoon.
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Peter, the organist at St. Mary's, asked
us if we would be happy to take our newly extended St. Hilary's
Miniature Church to the choir's Coffee and Cake Afternoon held
in the village hall on Saturday 9th September 2006.
They hold this event regularly in order to raise funds that are
used to maintain and restore the church organ. We had set up an identical scene within St. Hilary's where
the congregation were holding a Coffee and Cake Afternoon in
order to raise funds for their new organ! (Already
commissioned for St. Hilary's from John Cheal)
Andrew poses here just after we had set up the scene for the
visitors!
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The newly extended church quickly
becomes very popular as people happily accept the newly printed
booklet giving "The Story of St. Hilary's" as told by
the vicar, Reverend Gyles Ponsenby-Smyth!
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Some are so fascinated they spend ages
gazing at the various different scenes inside the church...........
We were delighted to receive many positive comments from
people who enjoyed reading the booklet "The Story of St.
Hilary's". We couldn't help but think that Hilary,
Sarah's late mother, would be rejoicing in heaven to know that a
miniature church in her memory would be bringing so many blessings
to people far and wide.
This positive thought sent us home very happy.
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All is over and everyone is packing
away.......
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One last pose from Sarah with the church before we
began to pack everything
away too................................
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Christmas Fair December 2005
We had set the church up with a
Christmas setting complete with lit Christmas tree and even some
Christingles that two of the "children" were
holding. Our new "kid on the block", Robert
Alexander, has even come to church with his football of course
as well as his dog, Georgie! See how we got along
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| Andrew poses with our little church
whilst it was quiet!
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Hilary's attracts people of all ages as can be seen here!
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| Sarah shows
of the Christmas scene inside St Hilary's church.
We were thiilled to raise £30 for church funds which was
even better than our efforts at the Summer Fair in June 2005.
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Summer Fair June 2005
We had set up our Cleaning Day scene
for our visitors.
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can be seen here soon after we had set it all up. Our dear
Rev. Ponsenby-Smyth is stood at the door in his penitential
pinny inviting all visitors to consider joining the cleaning
rota of St Mary's if they feel so inspired!
Sarah's sister's hand crafted bin of church rubbish is
displayed for all to see. Visit our Cleaning
Day to find out what was in it!
We have created many different scenes (some are on this
website!) which have been photographed and turned into
postcards. You can see the postcards scattered about
here. We give these away to visitors in return for a
donation to the church funds.
In addition this time we included miniature 1/12 scale
postcards and greetings cards replicating many of our full size
postcard scenes.
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| Andrew
poses in front of our board display which also houses our
miniature postcards and greetings cards.
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miniature 1/12 scale greetings cards and postcards attract
much attention. Andrew helps the undecided decide!
It is a good job we provided two magnifying glasses for
people to see how well the pictures looked magnified.
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| Andrew
helps three children and their grandfather choose a postcard
each.
Oh what a decision to make!
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| The three
children each peruse the postcard they have each chosen to take
home with them to remind them of St Hilary's!
We were pleased to raise £15.95 for St Mary's church funds.
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