Ready, get set…
posted in Birthdays, Socializing |We’re a "go" for the birthday party.
I heart Flickr and Creative Commons.
I have managed to morph a "mermaid" party into a "sea theme" party, using streamers and tropical fish and starfish pictures from Flickr (ones with Creative Commons licensing). So the dotter gets her Ariels, and I get to feel a bit less like a lemming following the Disney siren song.
In the process, I managed to stay up until 3 a.m. last night, cutting out pretty fish, and didn’t wake up until (gasp!) 10 this morning. (Thus, I managed to scotch a date I had for a phone call with my bro, currently visiting OmegaGranny, which I hope to make up to him after the party. Damn, I feel guilty. These time differences leave me all ferschimelt.)
We have goody bags with plastic dolphins or starfish, stickers, crayons, seashells, and coloring pages.
We have purple plates, googly eyes, fuzzy balls, and purple, blue, and seablue streamers to make jellyfish.
We have purple, blue, and pink Gatorade. We have baby carrots, celery sticks, and dip. We have apples. We have an Ariel cake and an Ariel pinata (which we finally figured out how to fill with cheap candy).
And we have time to shower, relax a bit, and sashay off to the party venue.
Oh, and we have one RSVP that included "some other kids". Um. OmegaDad took that phone call, so I have no details. Grrr.
Pictures later.
(Oh, yeah, and I’m feeling better. But given the way this thing has come and gone in waves, I hold no great hopes for the future.)
