Boo had her ballet concert on Sunday night. This year’s production was Enid Blyton’s  The Enchanted Wood and Boo was a canary. A canary sounds a much more plausible ballet role than last year’s (beautiful) jellyfish role.

This year, Boo’s ballet academy celebrated it’s 60th Birthday. In 60 years, there has never been the costume debacles that occurred this year!

Boo had a dress rehearsal on Thursday evening. This should actually be called a stage rehearsal as the costumes that were promised 2 weeks ago, still had not arrived.

There was a dress rehearsal on Friday evening. Some costumes had arrived, and bits of others had arrived. The canaries had nothing, nada, zilch!

The dressmaker who had worked with the academy for 25 years did not deliver!

But of course the show must go on!

A small army of mums and friends pulled together. Several trips to Spotlight and the Ballet Shop later (and a lot of cutting, pinning, velcro and hard labour),  the show went on Saturday and Sunday night.

And if you weren’t in the know, you would never have guessed that The Great Costume Debacle of 2011 had even occurred!

So with a few yellow feathers, a piece of yellow cardboard, and some sparkly yellow fabric pinned to her shoulders, Boo’s normal ballet clothes were transformed into a gorgeous canary costume (and between you and me it was the best costume of the concert)!

Boo danced beautifully, and if you haven’t worked it out already was a real DIVA on the evening! Like all ballerina’s she was rewarded from her family in flowers.