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Monday, December 13, 2010

Crafty Burnout ?

That's what it feels like to me.

Last year, we threw my daughter a cooking class birthday party. While that was a very easy party for my husband and I, it lacked a certain personal touch that home parties have.

So this year, my daughter and I decided to have her party at home instead. Well, not just any party. A Swinter Luau party, baby. Summer-winter, s-winter, swinter.... get it? Er, never mind. Seeing as we could not possibly invite her whole class to her party, we decided to invite just the girls. Actually, I was going to limit the number of girls too, but could not bear to leave any girls out, so every single girl was invited. Wouldn't you just know it? Everyone show up.

So, I had to plan for a luau with 14 girls. Yup, it required quite a bit of planning on my part.

Before you think that I have too much time on my time, I made all these things as part of the quality time with my youngest daughter. My little girl who is home with me most of the day got to do quite a bit of crafting with me as a result. Sneaky, sneaky mum. In fact, we crafted so much that by the end of last week, she said, "Crafting again??". Hahahaha.... this is from a girl who loves arts and craft.*

So, what did we do?

Well, we made an Aloha banner, from stuff we had on hand (crepe paper streamers and drawing paper roll):

We also made these beautiful Martha Stewart pompom flowers:

Cute, right? Actually, this was not easy to craft this with a four year old, but she had a really fun time playing with the clippings and making a giant mess in general :) But be had fun nevertheless.

This was fun too, we made a coconut ball filled with candies. We covered a balloon with paper mache, filled it in with loads of candies and confetti, and decorated the coconut:

Actually, we made 3 of these coconuts. After all, we had to have some practice runs. :D