I was actually pretty chilled out about the party until right before, so that was nice. Usually I'm running around like a screaming maniac, trying to make sure everything is PERFECT. But I was either so tired I couldn't care, or was actually accepting that the party did not NEED to be perfect, I was nice and relaxed.
One of my guests, Brynna, popped up in the morning and sang me a SONG. A SONG. She sang that there was a maiden invited to a ball, and then she had a long time friend over, and THEN realized it was the night of the ball. Then she fell on her knees and sang, "Your Majesty, tell me, what should I do?"
My heart simultaneously melted and went "Squeeeeeee!"
Naturally, I told her to bring her friend. :3
A couple girls couldn't make it, my sister Carolyn one. She was (is) horribly sick. Natalie had something come up at the very last minute and couldn't make it. She felt so guilty! I kept telling her, "NO GUILT!" But I think she found it hard to believe me. (Parties are not supposed to make you feel guilty. Tcha!)
I spent the afternoon making things for the party. I had a bunch of fake flowers (I WANTED real flowers, but not at the inflated Valentine's day prices! o_O), and I tied a ribbon around each one for the girls to take home. Then I took several bottles and a couple vases, and covered them with fairy tale pages. (Not from an actual book, obviously. I made copies.) They were candle holders, and they looked GORGEOUS. I sent the bottles home with the girls, but kept the vases.
I want to do some over with scripture next. :3
The vases were fairly easy, but the bottles, oh my, the BOTTLES. @_@ It was more than complicated, getting flat paper wrapped around a very curvy shape. It wasn't until the last one that I figured out how best to do it, and when it was done, I realized it would have looked better pasted on from BOTTOM to top. Oops.
Shani arrived home from her dad's birthday around 5 (party started at 6!), and I zipped off to Logos to get the leftover candles from Christmas, my camera (currently doing double duty as the school camera), and print off my story.
The ladder to the attic was gone, so no candles.
My camera was nowhere to be found.
I realized I had to run to the dollar tree to get candles, so no time to print my story.
Sheesh.
I called Zach and asked him to bring over HIS camera, which he gladly did. :3
The party was really nice. Almost every girl was in costume. Alainna had drawn vines and leafy things all over her arms and face. Jo had tied her hair up in ribbons, all raggedy looking. Samantha came with fairy wings. Brynna and her friend, Calista, brought PUPPETS to tell their story with.
An excellent set up.
We ate nummy foods, and the stories were really nice.
A running theme throughout the party was, "Well, I tried to keep my story under 6 pages, but then it turned into a book, so I wrote a different one today!"
I knew these girls were good ones to have to a writing party.
Alainna read hers first, and it didn't have an ending, (it was one of the ones that turned into a book!) but the beginning was really promising. I want to know what happens! I have to get that girl doing NaNoWriMo.
Brynna and her friend told their story next, WITH props and costumes. I loved that.
I think I read mine next (I'm not very patient). The girls seemed to like it a lot. "Warm fuzzies" was the consensus.
Jordan's story was LOVELY. I liked it a lot. You can tell she wants to be an author - and that she'll be good at it!
Samantha's story made me laugh. The characters were wacky and crazy. One of them introduced himself with a different name every five seconds! (He was my favorite).
Mindy had brought a story that was a choose your own adventure story! (I want to have a party themed around THOSE next!) It was awesome! Sam, at this point, was totally wired from all the sugar, and was shouting out the MOST DANGEROUS paths to take. She was, however, the ONLY one that survived. XD (Even if she did get squished by the giant spider's death throes.)
The path I chose ended up with me permanently kidnapped by mermaids.
It was a really fun party. I only wish I hadn't been so tired! I laid down around the middle of it, and snuggled with my pillow and Mister Frog while listening to the stories.
Without further ado, here are the pictures! (Mind, it was all done by candlelight, so the pictures are either really dark, or over-exposed from the flash).
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| Samantha and Tabi eat some noms before the party starts properly. |
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| Despite our comfy, large couch, most of the girls wanted to sit on the floor! That's Desi wrapped in the awesome cloak, btw. |
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| Mindy! Who was AWFULLY hard to convince to come. But I'm glad she did. |
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| Brynna and her friend Calista. They were the ones who brought PUPPETS! |
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| Jo was a raggedy fairy. And so cute! |
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| You can't see the words, but these are the bottles and vases I covered with fairy tales. |
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| Although the pictures don't show it, the candles lighted up the room perfectly well! We even turned off the fish tanks, and had plenty of light to read by.. |
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| I'm Baptist. You cannot have a gathering without food. I'm pretty sure it's written in the Bible somewhere ... (I'm kidding about that last bit). |
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| Candles! (And fishtank! Unfortunately...) |
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| Candles are the PRETTIEST. |
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| I think it's funny how dark the room looks in the pictures. It was really well lighted for our eyes! |
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| With le flash. At this point, more girls had chosen the comfy couch option. |
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| Jo, reading her lovely story about fairies and wings and redemption! (I'm a sucker for a redemption story, what can I say?) |
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| Desi, Mindy and Tabi listening to Jo's story. The candlelight made everything warm and cozy. Why did we ever switch to electric? (Because it takes 15 minutes to light all the dumb candles, THAT'S why!) |
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| Mindy's left shoulder, Tabi, Sam, Alainna and Calista's right shoulder. :3 |
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| CAAAAANDLES! |
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| I told you Sam got all wired up on sugar. |
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| She's reading her story with the ever-changing-name fairy. <3 (He was quite popular.) |
I was pretty tired after the party! I just kind of curled up and mostly fell asleep. Also, girls are tidier than boys. Usually after a party with my kids there is a HUGE MESS that will take me three days to clean up! The house is tidy, and there's just a few extra cups that need washed. That's nice.
I'm really glad everyone had a good time. Brynna especially wanted to have everybody's email. (She and her friend are my neighbors, and the only non-Logosites). I told her never fear, email is here!
Today is looking pretty busy, despite my desire for a nice, quiet lie-down. Church, of course, which I'm excited for. Potluck afterwards, which I would be excited for, but like I said, TIRED. Then Kevin and I are going to make recordings for the Show Choir kids. They're still struggling with parts, (sickness, Hawaii vacation, and a mere 20-ish rehearsals. I hate the March concert.) and there's only 8 rehearsals left. They need the help. Le sigh. I had an influx of 4 new students, an increase of 150% of choir size, and I didn't understand how that would attribute to party learning. Ah well. They're gonna be adorable. And they're dancing. So it will all work out in the end.
I also have to figure out my rides for tomorrow, not to mention the rest of the time I'm subbing for Mr. Fox. I know that I just can NOT bike in before 9 four days a week. So, I'm trying to figure out rides to the places I need to go on my long days, Monday and Thursday (13 hours and 11 hours, respectively.) Then I think I can manage the gumption for Tuesday and Friday.
I finished a video game today! I'm disappointed in how short it was (it was a 3ds download for $5, I still think it should have had more content), but it was ADORABLE. Done by Studio Pixel, which did Cave Story (an exceptional game, 2-d side scrolling with pixel graphics, but still gorgeous and the story is amazing, gameplay intuitive, options and multiple endings. Great game. Play it.). Anyway, it's called "Ikachan" and is really cute. I wanted it to be longer. Heh.
I will try to take the afternoon off, and just collapse in a heap. Maybe Shani will help me with that. I'm a little nervous, because I didn't have a Sabbath this week, and I'm not having one until Saturday at the earliest next week. I will be certain to take off the hours I do have off, but ...
Well, I'm pretty nervous. I would take off 2nd job Wednesday, but I'm taking Thursday off for a wedding, and I *really* need the money. :-/
Maybe Shani can help me figure out where to rest. She's good at that.
Okay, off to church! I'll post my fairy tale in a different post, so it's not so Wall of Text-y.
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