Thought I'd just give you a quick update on the party situation considering it's consuming my life at the moment.
So the other day (thanks to my buddy Bec) I worked out what balloons I needed for my themed tables so dad and I popped down to Lombards to do some shopping. Only to be greeted by this as we walked in...
Looks like someone told them I was having a party. Thankfully my Anna costume is going to look a lot more true to the film than this.
I frantically searched around for the balloons I needed and dad nearly died when he saw how many I wanted. After trying and failing to convince him to buy a full sized Elsa stand board we left with something like $80 worth of balloons and balloon supplies.
We also found out how much the helium tanks are to hire so I think we're pretty set in terms of balloons.
I've also spent the last week or so trying to get my paper mâché Spaceship Earth done. It started off alright.
First we covered a fit ball in a few layers of plastic wrap to make sure the mâché wouldn't stick directly to the ball. Then my friend Katherine and I started mâchéing with newspaper and a watered down PVA solution. It was going great until we ran out of glue. We improvised and made some with flour and water which worked well enough for us to leave it to dry and go get more PVA from down the road.
Then a few days later I spent anthother three hours coating the ball again with the newspaper and PVA solution, until I'd added another three layers, while I watched Newsies and Tower of Terror.
I left that to dry and that's when things started to go down hill. A few days later my brother came into the lounge to tell me that my ball was cracking. I ran straight into the dining room to find a huge crack running all down one side of the ball. Turns out the heat had caused the ball to expand and the pressure broke through the newspaper.
The parts of the ball that'd we'd used flour and water on had also started to mold. We put salt in it, like a lot of the recipes said to do, but it hadn't stopped the mold from growing. I ended up having to cut the moldy part off so the ball currently looks like this.
The good news is that the parts I did with PVA are drying rock hard and my mum's partner just bought me another four litres of PVA wood glue from the hardware store so hopefully once I have the chance to get back to it it'll be as solid as ever. Here's hoping I can get it back on track.
I've also been working on little cards to attach to the balloon centerpiece on each table. Each of the tables will be themed like a different park at WDW so I'm going to have little laminated cards that have the park's 'symbol' on one side and information about the park on the other like it's opening date and some facts. I haven't had the chance to do much work on them but I've finished the first side of the EPCOT one to show you.
That's pretty much it so far. My dad also bought a Disney parks autograph and photo book off Ebay to be a kind of sign in book for guests but I'll talk more about that when it gets here. I'll keep you updated with my party planning progress and I might even be able to show you photos of my costume in my next post!
- Lily
Looks so exciiiting:D
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