Sunday saw The Victory Hall as the venue for the Country Craft Competition, seeing the finest creative minds displaying their work.
With entrants bringing in handmade items including photographs, cakes, and picnic boxes, many incorporating the ‘Beside The Seaside’ 2013 Carnival theme.
Following her Crowning Ceremony, Princess Jessica Stancombe performed her first official duties by awarding the winners, which included:
- Best in Cookery – Elizabeth Reid, for a Beach Picnic Box
- Best in Floral – Fiona Keene, for a Beach Wedding Posy
- Best Handicraft – Madeline Anderson, for her Embroidery
- Best Photography – Viv Brickett, with a seaside theme
- Best Children’s Handicraft – Emma Phipps, for a Dream Ice-Cream Cone
- Best Overall (Adult) – Elizabeth Reid, for a Beach Picnic Box
- Best Overall (Child) – Bethan and Holly Goode-Jones, for their five Seaside Decorated Cakes
Check out our winners and entries gallery below:
First Prize winning seaside cakes. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
Emma Phipps’ Winning ‘Dream Ice Cream’ cone. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
Elizabeth Reid’s winning Beach Picnic Box. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
Beach in a box. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
Photography winner, Viv Brickett. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
Winning embroidery. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
Beach in a box. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
First Prize winning ice cream cakes. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
Fiona Keene’s winning Beach Wedding Posy. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
‘Dream Ice Cream’ cone entries. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
First Prize winning baking. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
Beach scenes. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
Overjoyed at winning! Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
Art and Handicraft entries. Photo: JLC Photography Ltd.
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Well, I am utterly delighted to have discovered on Sunday upon returning from our Fathers’ Day out, that I won the Somersham Carnival Country Craft Competition, Category 9, in ‘Class A. Cookery’ for my ‘Beach Picnic Box’!
I was thrilled to receive First Prize for this category but I also winning First Prize in the Class AND then, the overall Country Craft competition, winning the Trophy, together with a marvellous collection of cookery books and a lovely egg timer! How wonderful and a lovely surprise! Thank you very much indeed!
It was a real shame to have missed the presentation and all the glory though but I am so pleased to have won. I will be getting my name engraved in the trophy on Friday; not that I am keen or anything!