Craft Night

My neighborhood is awesome.  There are so many fun families.  All the ladies, used to get together about once a quarter for some kind of party... mostly as an excuse to sit and talk and eat.  Well, for some reason, those gatherings have stopped.  I think life just gets too busy.  But one of my neighbor friends asked me a year ago to throw a craft night at my house.  Well, I was about a month away from having a baby, so I politely told her "heck no!"  But maybe in a year of so :-)

Well, it had been a year and I thought to myself, that was a good idea, so maybe I should do it.  We haven't really gotten together in awhile, so maybe I should start it up again.  And that is what I did.

I invited all the ladies on my street (and a few others from around the corner) and we had CRAFTAPOOLOZA!  That is what I called the craft night.

I started by designing a "Craftapooloza" logo for the night.

Here are the invitations I made.  I used some cute chevron bags and put a cute tissue paper flower on the front.  (Here is a tutorial for the flowers, so cute and easy).

Then I designed the invite to go inside and punched a hole and strung ribbon at the top (so they could pull out the invite easily).

So, darn cute, huh!  I was in love with how they turned out.

The gist of the night: I provided 4 crafts (originally I was going 3, but I added another craft at the last minute) for the girls to choose from.  They could do all 4 or just do 1 or 2 or 3 crafts.  I would provide the supplies and my house and instructions.  They came with food, money (to pay for the supplies) and ready to craft the night away.

It was so much fun.  Everyone crafted until midnight and then I had to kick them out :-)

Crafts and photos coming soon!