8: RUN SHEET If this is the kind of party where you’re having games or activities, this one will take a little more thought – but even if not, you might have speeches or other items, and it’s worth just sketching out a super quick order-of-events for your own peace of mind. A nice, general […]
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6: CAKE No secrets: this is my favourite part 😀 But even if it isn’t yours, don’t stress! It doesn’t really take that much planning at all. First questions first: How many serves will you need, what flavour/s do you want, and what design will you use? This is where your brainstorming can prove handy
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PART TWO: THE PLANNING 4: DECORATIONS Having done your initial brainstorm, you’ll have come across some things that you’re definitely keen on implementing – food ideas, decorations, maybe activities too. Hold onto all this; we’ll go through it one thing at a time. First up: decorations. Because I am prone to falling in love with
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It can feel like there’s a lot of pressure sometimes to host ‘perfect’ events, what with the advent of Pinterest and Instagram and the like. My family is Big on Events, and we can Pinterest party like it’s… uh, 2018. I’ve been involved in plenty of events-coordination that took weeks and even months of planning,
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FINALLY the post series on planning a Pinterest-worthy party without dying is DONE. Imma post all three parts over the course of this week: BE PREPARED. Also, in the next couple of weeks, I’m planning to bundle them all together in an ebook, along with planning sheets. Woo! Finally, the thing is DONE.
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It’s not that I’m so perfect that I rarely make mistakes, it’s just that usually they’re tiny things I don’t notice, or instances where my ego can brush things off as being other people’s mistake instead, or whatever. You know. We’re human. Usually, with a healthy brain, we don’t spend too much time thinking about
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Caution: These activities were completed under controlled test-conditions.* Do not attempt in Real Life. 1. Attempt to open your son’s school locker by pressing the car remote. 2. Drop son off to school and get halfway home before you realise you’re not supposed to be going home, you’re supposed to be going to work. 3.
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I have nothing especially to say rn, but I also don’t have a great excuse to NOT be here, so here I am, being here, and hereing. Woo! Anyway, writing is progress, if not apace then at least at a better pace than during term time. I have about 37k done now in How Not
Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit
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Sometimes, you just really needed to hear it. My kids are 5 and 2 right now, and they are both clever little beans, and super active. My son particularly is a little perpetual motion machine, and always has been.* So for the last two years, they’ve been doing swimming lessons as yet-another-way-to-try-to-expend-their-energy-and-keep-them-sufficiently-occupied. Y’all know my
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