Planet Angel - Live an Ordinary Life in an Extraordinary Way

Launching the website at the weekend was amazing, it is almost all we’ve done for several weeks so kinda hard to see the wood for the trees, having stepping away from it for a day or two it’s a wonderful feeling to come back to it and see a complete ‘package’ as it were… almost six years of info. Re-organised & presented within about four weeks… not bad! 

It’s been loads and loads of work not just for us but also Ali and Graham, we’d started plans for a new site years ago, we now realise how much energy it takes to upgrade a site like this with so much info on it.It’s a bit weird because we’d mainly only been focussing on the site, we were surprised that we didn’t get a massive deluge of feedback!  We waited with bated breath as the conclusion of about 4 years effort was published and the first comment was “yeah its nice” !

So having put the new site aside for the moment, we went down to the warehouse and turfed it out for an overhaul… many a minging yellow garment has been dragged home and put through an intensive washing cycle… amazingly it’s all come out proper white!

During the weeks spent focusing on the website and writing the mailshot literally hundreds of emails have gathered in our inboxes… the number of emails we’re getting is climbing steadily, which can only be good, if hard to keep up!  Mind you now the spam filter works we get about 3,500 less each week! (really). 

We spent the first part of the week catching up with all the stuff that had gathered, and then turned our attention to the party production plan…We spent days pouring over floor plans in great detail, examining what worked and what didn’t at the first party at Hidden, reading through feedback, coming up with ideas for new systems and wandering around the living room with a tape measure… we’ve followed through on our ideas with some heavy research into H&S compliant materials, suppliers & costs etc… the boring back-end of the creative process huh! 

We’ve come up with something for every area… we can’t do it all for this Party, this month we’ve ended up with orders totalling a couple of grand!!  For the Funky Lounge we ordered some properly seamed & eyeleted white UV stretchy bits for the ceiling to replace the makeshift white bits we made up last month, they’ll make much more interesting shapes. And we’ve ordered an EIGHT FOOT white balloon from America (they cost fortunes!) as a centrepiece, to be surrounded by the smaller bright white balloons with lights focused on them slowly changing colour..

In the Meltdown Room we redesigned the layout of décor and discussed ideas for projections at the front of the room either on balloons or swaying chiffon curtains, the huge UV circular tabs on each wall with UV darts coming out from them along the walls on each side.  Keep the UV collection of butterflies at the back, and bring in UV strip lights for along each wall and a cannon pointing at the butterflies at the back, away from the front where the projections may be.  We also ordered loads and loads of UV tape & hoops to make some twirling UV ceiling hangings. As ever these ‘simple ideas’ are never quite that simple, Pete spent all day making those UV hanging things!

We reckoned the Chill Bar needs transforming as it’s too dark & stark for Planet Angel… we’re going to find ways of making images of beauty and warmth to cover the walls downstairs…  it’s quite a big idea and will cost the most so we’ll try to do a few each month over the next few months.  We ordered some stretchy fabric to create a ceiling effect under the lighting bars on the right hand side where you sit at the Plasticene table to project oil wheels onto and create a cosy area. Upstairs we’ve changed the layout of the craft table and carpet to suit better and try to prevent the gangway getting blocked by bums. 

We sorted a fan for the cubby hole and replaced the (hot) light fittings with lights that don’t’ get hot, (Doh) and though about covering the black ceiling with white & fairly lights to make it brighter & cosier.The idea for the Garden was a ceiling of random translucent white fabric that blows in the breeze and brushes the tops of heads to project images & oil wheels onto, to make this a really inviting space to sit & chat as the weather turns to warm… Humm… sounds simple.

The production team had a few new members for this month which normally means things take a bit longer, but all being well... and pending all the deliveries arrive in time, should make a pretty good start anon making ourselves at home at the new venue :0)

And now… we’re about to start confirming Artists, Crew and all things Party Party Party!

Here's a list of stuff we coud use a hand with!

PRODUCTION - THINGS WE NEED HELP WITH.

Making UV Twirling Ceiling hangings for main room – on the day of – or before - the April Party

Spray Painting the connect 4 set - we’ll provide spray paint – John needs to repair a broken bit of wood on it first, so after this party

Drawing black lines on the butterflies – with a marker pen (if anyone’s up for taking one home with a marker pen it really is the kind of thing u can do in front of the TV)

Sanding down (& waxing) the Jenga set

Turning a list of quotes into new inspirations cards for the board

Researching online for those bottle holders you clip to your belt