As regular readers will know, on this blog I refer to my 8 year old daughter as the Queen. This originated when she played the Red Queen in a school performance of Alice in Wonderland. She was particularly good at shouting:
Off with her head!
She also has bossy tendencies. Can’t think where she got those from.
Anyway, the Queen’s organising and enterprising streak appeared in force a couple of weekends ago when she and four friends appeared in a ‘fashion show’ at the end of our monthly church coffee morning. The Queen and her pals have spent the last few months dressing up every time they get together.
The Queen, the Joker and friends looking fashionable
After reading a Christian kids’ book called ‘The Back Leg of a Goat‘ by Penny Reeve, where the heroine puts on a fashion show to raise money to buy a goat for a family in Africa, the Queen decided that she and her friends would do the same. So they put together their dressing clothes and also an old duvet and some other old outfits, liberally snipped about. The Joker was recruited to play some ‘jazz’ (actually some mellow acid jazz cds from the Vicarage collection).
They recruited kind neighbour Beauty, who knows everything about makeup and nails. Beauty came and preened them all up and the event was ready. We arranged for them to put on the show at the end of the monthly church coffee morning, so they had a captive audience. The Queen had worked hard at getting her Kids Klub leaders and other adult friends to come along. They’d made posters and flyers which they’d handed out.
The Queen and her friends enjoyed themselves enormously as they paraded around the hall, although I don’t think I’d say that the fashion was ready for showing alongside the next Valentino collection. And with the help of the coffee morning bric-a-brac stall they cajoled over £60 from their audience. We are going to send off the money to the Barnabas Fund, for their education fund. The Queen and her friends wanted the money to go towards educating ‘poor children’.
I just hope that I can now throw out all the snipped up clothing and retrieve a small part of our very messy Vicarage…
The Vicar's Wife 
Hiya,
wow, this is very impressive, the Queen is so young and full of initiative! and organised! Mum, you can be so proud of her! Such a pleasure to go on your blog. Blessings. Nicky
Dear Queen,
I found your mum’s comments about your fantastic fashion parade and I just wanted to say that Tania and all her friends would have been SOOOOOOO impressed!!! (I certainly was.) Keep loving God with your whole life and in creative fun ways like this too.
Your fan,
Penny.