Schmancy Olympic Challenge Entry

Back in January Kristen at Plushyou announced the Schmancy Plush Olympic Challenge. I signed up and was given the category Opening Ceremonies.

I decided that my inspiration needed to come from the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics. In 1984 Sarajevo was in Yugoslavia. Now it is the capital city of Bosnia Herzegovina - the country I live in. I googled 'olympic flame opening ceremony sarajevo 1984' and the first image that comes up is this one:


This is Sanda Dubravčić who was the final torchbearer for the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics where she represented Yugoslavia in Figure Skating.




And this is my plush intepretation of that photo! I'm not sure that I'll get far in the competition but I've had fun making my entry :)

preparing for the winter olympics...

Yesterday we went to Sarajevo. There are many good reasons to go to Sarajevo, including the amazing cafe Torte i to where you can get the best cheesecake ever and the fact that there is a cinema. But yesterday we found another reason - sledging! The Winter Olympics in 1984 were held in Sarajevo which was then part of Yugoslavia. (today it is the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina in case you didn't know) Yesterday we were walking around in the park enjoying the snow and then we saw some people sledging down the paths. This made some of our group very excited so we went across the street to the toy shop and bought some little plastic sledge thingys and joined in the fun! Winter Olympics has been on my mind a lot recently because of entering the Schmancy Olympic Challenge competition. I hope that yesterday's brief winter sports fun in the Olympic City of Sarajevo will bring me inspiration and that I come up with something really fab!