DIY Party Mom

Little Italy Festival

So I've decided that if you live in Indiana, the land of no craft shows, you have to do a festival to get out there. I have had a pretty big bust so far, so it was with lots of fear that I decided to do the Little Italy Festival.

Boy, was I suprised! It turned out to be a great show. I made lots of new contacts and did pretty well.

This show was inside, so I was trying to stand out by using lights on my tent structure. I think it definitly caught people's attention.

I really liked the use of the lattice for hanging the plaques. The brown sets off the white of the tiles.

Still need to find a good way to display the candy bars. Can't find anything that works quite right yet.

It's was good having the schools favors in the back. People were caught by the clocks (most of them sold right away) and stayed to look at the other school items and drifted around the booth buying.

A Sweet Way To Spend The Day

Okay, so I should have been doing a hundred different things yesterday. Everything from cleaning house to catching up on my blogs (I'm only 4 months behind) to starting taxes to catching up on tv this week, but I didn't. The kids were all home and inside yesterday. Which meant there wasn't an open computer or room anywhere in the house. And that is saying something since I have a pretty big house.

So instead, I moved all my stuff up into the kitchen and spent several hours making candy bouquets. It allowed me to be in the middle of my kids without being in the middle of them. It was nice. And I've got a few done for the Valentine holiday. And it turned what could have been a stressful day on top of my kids into a sweet, and productive, day.

Here are a few:

Food, Friends, & Fireworks!

It's been a crazy last few weeks. After dealing with the flood and all the complications that has brought into our lives, we really wanted to kick back and enjoy a break. What better way than to gather with friends, eat LOTS of food, and blow things up? Gotta admit that after everything, the blowing things up sounded the best to me! Since we couldn't blow the house up or an insurance company, we enjoyed some home fireworks instead.

The kids were very antsy all day to go. We had MORE rain that morning and were afraid the festivities would be cancelled. Zach got up early (for him...he's my LATE sleeper) and got dressed by himself. I'm not sure if he was hoping the rain would turn to snow, or if he just has his mother's genes and is cold all the time!

The rain finally stopped and we gathered at a friend's home for the holiday and enjoyed a wonderful BBQ. There was so much food and it was nice to see old friends and meet some new. We have been so blessed to have some awesome friends since moving to Terre Haute and it was great to spend time with them. Plus, enjoying all their favorite BBQ foods was a great plus! I think the kids loved getting together the most!

I know Josh was expecially thrilled to have the party because the Green family was invited. That meant that Abby got to come! He just loves Abby and is convinced he is going to marry her. We have found them slow dancing behind the curtains at church and they've even shared their first kiss. (We finally had to put a stop to that one!) So he was pretty excited to have her show up. We even found evidence of how thrilled they were to see each other again all over the front sidewalks for all the world to see!

After enjoying all the food and company, we took the kids out to the softball fields in front of our friend's house and lit sparklers. That was quite a feat with 20 kids! The kids all enjoyed the sparklers, even Zach who decided to try and light his chest on fire. He was playing with a sparkler when it burnt his fingers, so he flicked it and a piece of the sparkler went down his shirt. He blistered and burnt pretty good, but barely slowed down.

After the sparklers, we enjoyed a wonderful show with some awesome fireworks! We got just a "few" to shoot off and they were better than some of the shows we've seen.

We had a really awesome time. We even were treated to a second show. We got to watch Josh and Abby throughout the fireworks. They sat with Josh's arm around her the whole show. It was quite a show! And the girls spent the evening using the leftover sparklers to dress up their hair. We had a really fun night. What a great way to spend the holiday!

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