Our All School Party was last night. The theme of the night was something like, “around the world.” Each booth was suppose to represent a country. My club owns a cotton candy machine. Yep….a cotton candy machine. Not one of those little table top ones, but one that you can rent out for a party. A few years ago the local rental place was having a garage sell….and well…I bought one! I told the sponsor in charge of the party that we were United States because we were selling cotton candy. She asked me if I knew that in Australia it was called Fairy Floss.

Fairy Floss! We were going to be Australians for the night. That is right mate!

Our cotton candy/fairy floss maker is pretty old. It is missing it’s plastic dome that sits on top. When you make cotton candy, whiffs of cotton candy float around in the air. Eventually you are covered with webs of cotton candy. It looks like a halo of pink and blue floss floating in the air. Our machine does not like to get started either. You have got to help it along to get the spinner start spinning.  Reminds me of those old cars you had to get out and crank the crank and then give it a good kick. Once it does start spinning, the whole contraption starts rattling and vibrating. WoooHoo! That noise is the sign that it is time to get the paper cones out and start wrapping the cotton candy on it.

Remember my good friend who helped me make all those cheesecakes? Besides being a number one red velvet cheesecake maker, she is also my co-sponsor for my club. She came prepared by wearing a ball cap to shield her hair and face from the wisps of floating candy. I forgot to wear mine…drats!

We had a good number of club members to help run the machine. So, great sponsors that we are, we taught them how to use the cotton candy maker. As the machine rattled and vibrated and wisps of cotton candy started filling the air, the girls got busy making cones of cotton candy.

Yippee! We could just stand back and enjoy ourselves!

The girls can have all fun! Along with being covered in cotton candy!

We visited the rock band booth and clapped and laughed as teachers showed off their multi-talented selves. We kept a keen eye on our booth making sure the cotton candy machine did not take off and start flying around the cafeteria. The girls kept working away!

We might have stayed a wee bit too long.

When we got back, the cotton candy was taking the forms in different shapes.

One looks like it needs it’s floss combed.

 Ummm…..it was getting close to the end of the party.

We lowered the price from two tickets to one ticket.

This was definitely Australian fairy floss!

 Good ole American cotton candy looks like this.

Our girls just need more practice….or maybe a little closer supervision ; ).

It was a great night! We sold out except for a couple of bags we gave to our number one fairy floss maker!!

It was Friday and I was ready to go home…..

I had a halo of cotton candy…..ooops fairy floss to wash off!

Another week at school update!

Becky