My dear friend and dancing mentor (and fibre artist extraordinaire, for which I love her as well), Elinor, headed on a vacation not long ago to see her family. A great lover of trips to the airport, I offered to drive her to her flight and also to pick her up. We joked that we, my dance wife Bonnie and I, would greet her with signs and she said she had never been greeted with signs before and so the plan was set.
Originally Bonnie and I planned on getting either white or colourful bristol board to decorate with welcome home messages. And maybe sparkle it up with glitter. The dollar store had other plans...with school about to start the white bristol board was sold out and a new plan hatched.
We bought black bristol board, glitter, felt flowers and decals. We got back to my place and set up in the back yard
We started painting the letters on with Mod Podge, and just covered it in glitter
Grace wanted to help out so Bonnie set her to coating the felt flowers with glitter spray
We tried to contain the excess glitter so it could be reused
But it wasn't easy, especially when you miss the bucket
When we were done our hands were covered
As well as everything else.
My backyard looked like Fairies had come by and thrown one hell of a party
But the end result was perfect
And the look on Elinor's face (which I cannot believe I did not get a picture of!) made it all worth it.
