Made-It Monday: Giant Banners

Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!

So, if you’ve been following along on social media (Which, why? It’s the holiday season! Disconnect and feed your mental health and your soul! πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ ) then you’ll have noted that I was particularly quiet for a few weeks after Christmas – and of course, I talked last week about the fact that I was away at ‘Camporee’, an outdoor ed type thingy for Pathfinders, which is a global religious Scouts-type thingy. As well as appreciating deeply the disconnect from the troubles of the world for two weeks, it was also super fun and energising to get to make so much *physical* stuff for a change. I even used a drill and cable ties to make a cardboard-box dog costume (for reasons). If I can find anyone who took a photo of it, I’ll post as another Made-It Monday πŸ˜€

Today, though, I’m taking the easy route, which is to say I’m not digging out any of the photos of any of the other major things I made at Camporee, and instead I’m just screencapping a couple of my Instagram pics, because effort.

So today, you get the banners I designed for our activity πŸ˜€ We printed them at I think 1.5m x 3m (just under 5 x 10 feet) on canvas and they looked super impressive and profesh. One went up above the stage (which was totally not built over a trailer because the proper one we were supposed to have got cancelled, nope, not at all) and one went up just outside our front fence at the entry.

Large orange banner up over the black backdrop of a stage. Gum trees are visible behind. The banner has Indigenous Australian-inspired designs in the left-hand third (focusing on the bottom corner) in browns and yellows with some blue, white, red and green highlights in the dots. The 'blank' bit of the banner in the centre and right has the words 'The Journey: Acts 13 - 14'.
The same banner as above but strung between two poles. The photo is at night, with an industrial light illuminating the banner and the yellowed grass around it. A hessian fence is visible behind the banner, and the left third of the image shows the 3m high pillars that formed the entryway 'forest'.

The scale is hard to grasp, but in that bottom photo – the night shot – the poles to the left are 3m (nearly 10 feet) tall. So you know. This is a Sizeable Affair πŸ˜€

So yar. There we go. Banners, made for Camporee. Tune in next Monday for more Camporee-related things, because I am totally going to mine that for Made-It Mondays for as long as I possibly can πŸ˜€ πŸ˜€ πŸ˜€

And now, what have you made this week? Don’t forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have madeΒ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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