Market palace

Market day went well, we had heaps of people come in which was good as we were worried people would not be able to find us. To deal with that problem we had posters of our event around massey, the posters had tags for free goes on them, which we received a few of them today which is good. We also with the other groups had paw prints going towards the dark room and a big sign showing where it is.

We had a table at the beginning of our stall with three bottles as an example in it, there is a black light in it too so we put paper inside the empty bottles to make them glow. Above the three bottles are recipe cards for the punch that Hayley and I designed, so customers could see what flavor they won therefore change if they have allergies or else be able to remake the drink if they like it. There is an A3 instruction list in both corners of the table that Hayley made.

Above the our stall were 11 rows of 5 paper cups as decorations, Josh came up with the idea of fairy lights above us however we found the light neutralized the black light, therefore I looked into the paper cups posted earlier on. I couldn't find normal paper cups therefore I had to purchase plastic cups and stick paper on them, this turned out effectively glowing in the black light. On the wall next to us Josh came up with the idea of the stringy wall with white wool that glowed, which turned out very effectively. Izzy designed the shiny white Hoopla sign above the light box which was just high enough to get the dark light on it. There are three bottles on top of the table to show re use of decorations, one with notes in it (as posted earlier on in the blog) One with red roses in it (ties in with the wonderland group- painting white roses red) and one just to hold the hoops. We also had piles of the recipes that Hayley made.

We had a black curtain next to the stall which Izzy made and we all helped to place in the right area, it closes off the game space without hiding our stall which was good. Jarrod had the idea of a white crepe wall to create a walkway to help with the flow, We tried this out but all agreed this was too much, instead to create a flow we worked with the cat group on putting paw prints around the walkway of the room.

We all helped with the vinyl and the pulling the vinyl off of the bottles and jarrod and josh did the sandblasting for us all. 

We made 95 drinkable bottles, (5 of them broke or leaked) however it was no enough for how popular the stall was, so we began running out at about 1 and ran out completely at 1:10pm

The stalls in the dark room all had minimum things to give at about one so we all decided to half the price of entry. With how popular our bottles were people kept coming in therefore we continued playing the game, by using previously sandblasted bottles and decorations bottles until they were all gone too, these games the bottles were not sanitized therefore each bottle one we explained how to sanitize if people wanted to re use to drink out of. All bottles were won none were left behind.

Setting up the room

We set up the dark room today, more to be posted tomorrow on everything. We discussed whether we wanted the white crepe paper curtain but decided against it here are some photos of the set up, more to be posted tomorrow on all of them 

Crepe wall being made

Drinks

Hayley Izzy and I finished all the punch today, we did19 of the lemon, 32 of the orange and 42 of the raspberry.

Final Bottles

I sandblasted and peeled the last of our bottles today all ready to go for tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing what the others have been doing in the dark room.

Tshirts

Finished stencilling the tshirts girls tshirts have patterns down arms guys down the back. We will be wearing these with black jeans and sneakers

Fridge

Have a small fridge to use for drinks, just cleaned it all out, it's super heavy though so will need help to bring up to class room

Sanitised bottles

Finished sanitising all the bottles already sandblasted (59) with assistance from Caitlin before she had to go home to make our tshirts for the market day 

So all of these are ready to be filled and capped 

Bottles

Hayley and I vinyled the rest of the bottles so now we have 100 with around half of them still needing to be sandblasted. We started sanitising the finished ones also, To sanitized we let the bottles soak in soapy water, rinsed it off and microwaved for 40seconds. The bottle caps Hayley and I brought for the bottles arrived this morning too.

Posters

Hayley finished a design for our posters this morning so Hayley and I got the mawsa stamp for it and went around Massey sticking up 20 poster. The design Hayley came up with advertises our stalls and where it's going to be as well as sells it with free throw tags to be torn off

Monday before market palace

Hayley and I took off some more vinyl off the rest of the bottles and looked at space with other dark room teams

Flow

Hey guys this is the type of thing I was looking at creating with white streamers to guide people through the dark space is the way that we spoke about at the meeting. What do you think of the idea ?

Finished Recipe Cards

Will print out 16 of each so that if someone needs to see if they are allergic to anything or if they just want to know the recipe for later.

Music

We have been organising music with other dark room groups, Crytstal has made a spotify list for us which we have been adding music too. Since we are in the room we are away from all of the music in the great hall therefore the groups in the dark room thought its would be nice if we all contributed to a music playlist for the day

Punch flavours

Hayley izzy and I all helped to resolve the favourite punch flavours and tested them out on friends and family and from there got the final flavours

Lemon twist:

1/8th of lemon 

10ml honey

240ml carbonated water

Orange and passion fruit:

20ml passionfruit syrup 

20ml orange syrup

240ml carbonated water 

Raspberry apple rhubarb

20ml rhubarb syrup 

20ml apple syrup 

10ml raspberry schweeps

The most popular we found was probably the orange followed closely by raspberry and then lemon 

Decorations

Josh originally had the idea of putting fairy lights above us for a nice decoration. However after talking to the cat scratch team who are using the black light we discussed other options for decorations, and decided on an option that would work well with the black light:

Originally we tried using foam cups however the foam did not light up in the black light. So I brought 60 plastic cups and stuck paper on the outer shell and the inner. I cut holes in the top to attach each cup together with strings. There are 6 plain white rows with 5 cups in each row and there 6 rows of pattern cups. When they are put together closely like the image above they come to just over 1m. I think this should be enough but to be sure we can start setting up Monday and see how it looks.

The idea of these cups is that it will help decorate our stall and create a market like place the paper will glow in the dark light.

Bottle progress

Over the last couple of weeks my main focus has been on getting the bottles decorated for the market, which is next Wednesday. 

So far I have sandblasted 59, there's about 18 with vinyl to be peeled off and 20ish that need to be sandblasted still. 

That means there is only around twenty left to do! I'm really pleased with how this has been progressing and I think we will have enough for the market on Wednesday!

I cut some more vinyl, the patterns came out smaller than I expected but they will still look good so feel free to stop by industrial and cut a section off.