Tuesday 16 August 2011

Larmer Tree Festival 2011

lovely ladies hooping in the sunshine






Check out our snaps from the lovely Larmer Tree Festival! We hoop partied it right up from Thursday through til Sunday come rain or shine...



Norman!!
We met some pretty interesting characters along the way... meet Norman! We got to watch his shows and he took part in ours too! And he was a rather good hooper too to our surprise and delight :)


care for a hoop?

The sun stayed out all Thursday and Friday. Every hoop party we did was packed full from start to finish! We sold out of our hand taped hoops by Friday- but of course! The best hoops are the hand taped ones - and you need a grown up size hoop if you are grown up sized!!! And it is amazing exercise... according to some, it's the best you can get :)

hoops for all!

sunshiney hoop party joy
rare sighting of 3 men and their hoops!!!

On Saturday it rained in the morning - boo! So we saved it all up for our afternoon party when the sun was out once more - to sail the seven seas and steal all the treasure, argh me hearties!! Wanda became our pirate ship and we hooped the fields, and shivered timbers all over the place... 


jim lad in the hoop

Wanda be our pirate ship, arrrgh me hearty!







crazy people attacked us with a megaphone and then ran away




















in the kids field on Sunday
On Sunday we ran our last hoop party in the kids field which was super lovely :) lots of new faces to hoop with! The funniest part was definitely when a random procession protest meandered through! Protesting the lack of real oranges in orange juice amongst other things...

childrens hoop off!
watch out for the incoming procession!









here be pirates
See you at our next hoop party fellow hoopian pirates!
Love cat & pig :)



Monday 15 August 2011

Priddy Folk Fayre

hooping accordion

All the fun of Priddy Folk Fayre! The weather held out and we had a lovely few days. We held a hoop party in the market square and another one in the children's tent on both the Saturday and Sunday- the parties were great successes with lots of fun!

One of the most entertaining things that happened was the morris men just couldn't get enough of the hoops! It was accordions and violins meets hula hoop :) it worked surprisingly well... check out the pics!

children's tent
we will hoop and play all at once! 

 We ran a workshop in the children's tent and showed everyone how to do lifts, jump throughs and all sorts of off body hooping - with varying levels of success! It can be pretty difficult waving large hoops around in an enclosed space but everyone did really well :)
hoop off...

hoop party!

learning to do a lift

learning figures of 8

learning isolations

circus tricks out to play!


mum teaches the hoop

hoop joy!