Yesterday was the DIY Event I've been helping to coordinate for Imago. It was pretty sweet. Pretty real sweet.
There were about 25 demonstrators, showing ideas ranging from terrariums, to silk flowers to sourdough starters to shrinky dink pendants. There were sooo many great ideas. My biggest regret is not taking the time to sit down at each of the tables and learn all these new things.
In addition to the demonstrators we had musicians singing or playing Christmas carols throughout the day. The music was a mix between cello solos, singers with guitars, violins and keyboards. Every single one of the musicians were absolutely fabulous.
When there wasn't a musician serenading us, there were storytellers reading their favorite christmas stories to the kids.
It was a full house.
I took a ton of pictures, but I'm only posting the ones with us or with people who I know don't mind gracing this blog. There's a ton more on facebook if you wanna see what was going on.
So. Dave brought the kids for a while and they got to try out some of the ideas. Here they're freezer paper stenciling.
And making candy trains,
and listening to Christmas stories at one of the many storytimes.
One of the demos was making juggling balls from balloons.
You know that'd be a good place to find Dave. They're working on their tandem juggling skills.
This here is Annie Bethancourt and she absolutely rocks. She's quite high on my list of favorite musicians. Quite high.
Here's one of those things it would have been good to participate in...learning to make a sourdough starter. One of my favorite things about this DIY was being able to do the skill - not just hearing about it and taking home instructions to try it at home. And Michelle, the sourdough teacher, not only let you make the starter, she brought jars and enough supplies everyone could take theirs home. That is super cool.
There was a big hallway connecting our two rooms that we weren't quite sure what to do with. Until Alyssa came up with the brilliant plan of putting up butcher paper for the kids to draw on the walls.
So all in all the day was awesome. And now things can go back to normal. I don't have twenty emails to respond to or send out at 6 am and I don't have to live on the computer in the afternoon. Unless it's Bejeweled time of course.
