What? It's over? Oh, and my feet hurt!

For anyone who knew as they listened to me complain, stress, and cry that the PTA at KyLee school had our first "Holiday Craft Fair" today. For the past 3 weeks, my children have been orphans, cody has done a great job being a single dad, and my computer printer is out of ink! But, I did it!! I was told that there is no way we could pull off a craft fair, and I was set out to prove them all wrong! Along with myself and the other PTA Vice President (Tory), we were able to pull off 50 vendors, lots of food, yummy treats, entertainment, and a pretty decent turn out for our event. The gratitude that I felt when I saw the clock turn 4:00 was like a child walking down stairs on Christmas morning and seeing thousands of presents under the Christmas tree. I was a little happy to see it come to an end, but a little sad to see it over. We did a lot of hard work and It was a great time. I have to thank all my friends who bailed me out and purchased a booth to "help me prove a point". Stephanie, Kolleen, and Ashlee you chickie's are my hero's. I love you guys thank you, thank you, thank you!! Along with these girls, I did a booth also with my friend Jenn. My booth was not the most profitable, but I was able to pay for my booth and grab a much needed Diet Coke on the way home! And I still have some great gifts for the ladies Kolleen and I visit teach. We're set girls, probably for the next few years :) As I mentioned we ended up with 50 vendors. We only had one crisis, we could not get the lights in the school hallway to turn on. We tried everything!! We ended up calling our principal and we still where not able to turn them on after he arrived. I felt horrible!! But our vendors understood and as the day went on the hallway lightened up a bit. We did the best we could with what we had and as I mentioned that was the only problem we had for the entire 6 hours.

Some of our PTA board. Aren't we stylish in our Reed PTA shirts!! Those that are jealous, I will you sale you mine. From left to right Wendy (pta president) Me (vice pres) Jennette (secretary) Tory... the other VP who was in charge of this event, Amber (treasure) and Jenn (vice pres and my booth buddy) Our PTA board is coming along and we all took a vote, we are done with fundraisers!! We did really well on this one and decided we need a mini vacation. =D

Look how cute these two vendors are. How could you not resist buying from these ladies!!

I asked KyLee's dance studio to perform at the Craft Fair. Can I just say how much I love the Owner Donna and her admin assistance Kara. In this pic. Kara is on the left hand side of the poster board and the other girl is Michelle, she was with S&K Music Studio who also performed. The ended up sharing a booth, long story.... goes along with the no lights in the hallway... I did have one vendor who had concerns. Another story for another post.

On the left side this is my friend Ashlee with Ashlee Bailey photography. She is such a sweetie. I was teasing her that we were going to put her in one of her Tutu's and she was going to be the 1:30 entertainment. She laughed, but wouldn't come on board,hmmmm..... Her friend Alexandria sold Mary Kay. Such cuties. I love them.

These are my other friends, left to right Kolleen, Dana, and my best buddy Stephanie. Kolleen her newborn (hence the picture) and Dana sold hand made jewelry (which as I think about it, I never made it to their booth to buy...) and Stephanie sold her handmade girls hairbows. I owe you ladies lunch!!!

My job throughout the day was to MC the event. Who knew four years as a Communication Major and a degree is public broadcasting I would land my first gig as a MC at a school craft fair! :) It was fun and I even had one lady ask for my email address as she may want me to run her work Christmas party for the night. How much do people who do this get paid...... Also Donna with KyLee's dance mentioned me hosting her Dance Recital in July. Having a horse voice this evening paid off I guess. This is what happens when you are trying to find last minute entertainment in December. No one is available so you get to talk all day. Another lesson learned, search early for entertainment. One thing our vendors could not complain about, their business were plugged over and over again. Sitting here now listening to KyLee sing songs with the Karaoke machine, I was thinking about starting my Christmas cards. I must be nuts! My bed is whispering my name.....