Pantomania!

Hiya!

So we're mid December now and I think we can safely say it's nearly Christmas!
Christmas is my favourite time of year. I love the food and the parties and having another excuse to catch up with friends and family. I love Christmas shopping and wrapping up gifts and the unbelievable amount of mince pies I can get through in a month.
But one of my absolute favourite things about the Christmas season has to... Pantomime!

I adore a good panto. Panto means sweets and shouting and boos and men in drag and girls dressing up as boys and "he's behind you!" and singing and sweet, beautiful chaos. And last week I was in one!

I joined my local amateur dramatics society in September, specifically so that I could be in panto. We did a production of Dick Whittington and it was the most fun I've had in a long time. I played Fairy Bowbells, the fairy of London. I spoke in rhyme, had a spanner for a wand and best of all, was absolutely covered in glitter.

  The wonderful Judith did my hair and make up and we took great delight in changing my eye make up for every performance. Her passion for glitter is as rampant as my own, so together we caused havoc backstage, pouring more and more all over me. It took me days to wash it out of my cleavage.
Less joyfully, I was bullied into excessively back combing my hair. 3 times a day for 3 days. Judith forbade me to brush or wash it out so by the end of the production, my poor hair looked like this:

All the same, I had the best time and I can't wait to get involved again next year!

Sparkle and shine!

Sarah