Three Parties

Three parties in one day.  Yep, I'm just a party girl.  My Thursday morning started at the museum.  Since I knew I had Leslie and Marjean as docents I decided to have a last minute random sale.  I sent all my email customers a quick note that everything in the store would be 25% off for three hours.  I texted friends and family and it turned into a party.  Holly stopped by to do some shopping and brought me some shiney brites.  

Party number two was at four o'clock when Emily picked me up.  First stop was Starbucks, then on to our pedicure appointments at Phaze II.  The Christmas pedicure tradition started three years ago and it's one of my favorites.  It's a totally relaxing time during the rush of the holidays, I get to catch up with Em and my toes look and feel great.  

Emily does December Daily on her blog and I do an album so I wasn't surprised to get her text, 'pedicure is my dec daily, so look cute Missy!'  That's a little pressure.  I took my camera too.  One of the girls at Phaze II gets finished with another customer and so Em asks if she would take our picture.  Sweet girl agrees, keep in mind she speaks little or no English, and I point out my camera and try to explain.  It's a point and shoot.  Much gesturing, giggling and explaining in a loud voice because as everyone knows it really helps to raise your voice if you're talking to someone that doesn't speak English.  Right?

So she goes to take the picture and uhmm, points it the wrong way, nostril shot, the girls giving us our pedicures are giggling hysterically and I am about to pee my pants.  The salon is in an uproar.  Finally she turns the camera around, goes to take the pic and she turns it off.  Do over.  Okay here we go one more time, oops my camera turns off if you take too long to get the shot...

After we finished our pedicures Em ran into Costco, wearing the spa supplied flip flops.  She forgot her own at home.  Now everyone knows that one should wear armor to shop at Costco in Bellingham but Em runs in wearing paper shoes.  This can only end badly.  But Little Miss Sunshine come hopping out of Costco all kinds of excited.  Apparently there is a new guy working at the photo counter and he's gorgeous.

Then on to Micheal's for something cute with owls for me.  I'll explain later.  I have an idea.  I lose Emily and by the time I find her she has made a new friend.  Bekah, the amazing clerk, who totally gets us and gives amazing customer service.  She agrees that Micheal's will soon be called Bekah's.  She learned all about december daily, and plans to have an aisle just for december daily.  She comped me a coupon, opened a till to check us out which allowed us to skip the snaking line.  Bekah is my new BFF.

And I coined a new phase, instead of there's an app for that... how about, there's an aisle for that?

Hubby had a board meeting at our house so my plan was to keep a low profile in the master suite.  I told Em, I just going to "make things".  Really?  oh yes...  

Sheryl stops by and the third partay begins.  She was just going to drop off some goodies and run but I had an open bottle of wine so she texted her hubby and he went home for two hours and then came back for her.  

I made things and since Sheryl was trapped in the back bedroom I gave her jobs and she made things too.  I set her up with a paint station in the bathroom.  A work party so to speak.  We had so much going on that we blew a breaker, it was the cricut and all the Christmas lights.  It's hard to craft in the dark.  So at the risk of interrupting the board meeting I went to switch some breakers.  Lots of giggling at this point.

Later today I'll post some of the projects Sheryl got roped into helping me with while trapped in my bathroom.  It may not sound like a lot of fun but it was.

The theme of all of three parties was good friends and lots of laughs.