Our house opened for the first time in 1998. I was only 4 at the time so I didn’t understand what was going on so it didn’t affect me much then. As I got older I moved into a larger room which we used to display art in. This meant having to have my bed moved out of my room every Saturday and Sunday morning, then having to set up pieces of pottery and other various things.
My dad also made custom animations which used to run on a computer in my room so that had to be moved in there as well. I used to sit on a sofa in my room and watch the same movie repeat itself over and over again. When I was old enough I started to help bake cakes with my mum as we sold tea, cakes and coffee for 50p. I started getting tips for being a waitress.
I like to draw pictures and used to stick them on the wall and sell them for 50p. This got me a bit of money. Serving - and eating - cake all morning was fun but it was really weird having your house turned upside down like that, plus having my birthday in May made it much weirder as I sometimes ended up having my birthday party in June or July. The plus side of this was that I kind of got two birthdays which was fun.
As we couldn’t have lunch downstairs we went upstairs to my brother’s room and had a sort of picnic lunch. After that we normally cleared off and went to the pier or somewhere like that.
If I could choose to do the open house again I would.

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