Utah Halloween Pinterest Party 2018

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Halloween theme Pinterest party! We had food, we had crafts, we had some fun Utah peeps! 

Announcing September's Pinterest Party [Utah]

If you live in Utah and would like to come, we have a few spots left!

Just leave me a comment with your email address so I can get you the exact address of the party.

August Pinterest Party - Cactus & Succulents

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Hello and welcome to another Pinterest party post! This Pinterest party I'd been anticipating and was feeling excited for all month because of the theme and it's also been a bit since I last hosted a Pinterest party in California. It's still a struggle to get people to attend and I wish I knew how to solve that problem. I mean, it's free to come! You get to make cute stuff! All I ask is that people bring a food and I provide some as well, + crafts. I don't think it really gets easier than that. I'm still thinking about changing my strategy in the future. Anyways..keep reading to see what we made and ate!

New Pinterest Party Idea!

So! Here's what is going on and what's been on my mind lately. Something in addition to or instead of a regular Pinterest party month. You've heard of beer crawls, club crawls, taco crawls, pajama crawls, etc. Right? Or maybe you haven't. That's okay. Basically its like a progressive event. I've never really done any of those I mentioned because I don't drink or they have not been in a location I have access to easily. That being said..what do you guys (who are interested in my Pinterest parties) think about doing a CRAFT CRAWL ?!

Oh my goodness. I think it would be super fun.

In Salt Lake City...it'd have to be a few homes close together since..traffic.

In Ridgecrest...not a big deal since it only takes 10 minutes really to get across town. Haha.

One type of crawl I saw recently on Instagram was going to 10 shops, getting a punch on your card proving you had gone there and then maybe doing something like shopping or having refreshments at each location. This would take a lot of planning but I think I could pull it off with some help. Easier to do it with shops if it was in Utah since Ridgecrest only has one craft store in town.

There are a couple ways this event could be done. I went to a progressive dinner once in Woodland, CA where I grew up and you started with a appetizer at the first house with your group, then a main course at the next house and dessert at the third house. I don't remember if we stayed in the same group or switched it up. There were fun discussion topics at each house and overall it took an hour and a half or so to eat and drive around town. The houses were not too far apart from each other.

Since I have never done an actual crawl, I imagine it runs about the same way as a progressive dinner event? 

How this works also depends how many people want to participate.  If it's a small group, we could all rotate houses together. If there was more like 20 people, we could have 4 groups of 5 that rotate houses together. Make sense? 

I'm thinking about needing a few people (3 or 4 max) who could host the crawl/progressive at their house. We'd start out at my place for example and do a craft and have some light refreshments/ appetizers. By the way, there would be a theme. So, like a Pinterest party, but spread out among a few locations.  At the next house, the person there would have another craft and some other snacks. Should it be snacks the whole time? Probably that would be easiest..maybe savory snacks at one, sweet snacks at another and so on and so forth?

Food. Usually all the food is brought to one spot. In this instance, either the house would have to provide a small snack(s) and a drink or people would have to drop off their food beforehand. Could get tricky if we do it the latter way.

Crafts. I'd bring all supplies to each location and instruct the host how to do the craft.

So now, my questions are:

• Would you be able to have people come to your place to do a craft?
• Is this something you'd participate in in Utah or California?
• Should we keep the event small (10 max) so we can all move together or try to get more people involved (20 max probably)
• Have you thought of something I haven't mentioned yet? Ideas/suggestions/constructive criticism appreciated!

Back to School with HP & Giveaway!

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Wood Flooring Scrap Craft

I love re-purposing items when I can and there are some cute crafty ideas for these flooring samples from Home Depot and Lowe's.  Keep reading to see how we made these decorations with some vinyl and felt cut on my Cricut Maker.

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Mixed Media Expo - Day 2

Mixed Media Expo Day 2! Got word this is the last time this expo will be in SLC so that is a bummer! So we thoroughly enjoyed our last day and tried to do and see a lot which wasn't hard because there was not a ton of vendors there to talk to.