DuPont Library Extravaganza!

Today was the final event of the Friends of the DuPont Library Art Series AND the 4th Anniversary party of the DuPont library. In a nutshell - it was an exhausting blast! First was decoupaging rocks (the first two events were painted canvas and layered sand terrariums), and this event had an instructor - a wonderful lady named Theresa who teaches at Aleah's school. I had seen these amazing decoupaged creations of hers and asked if she would be willing to teach others. She said she was and that she would be delighted to do something for the library. So for the last month or so, we have been scouring DuPont for suitable rock candidates to dedicate themselves to being yard art, rather than their traditional roll of yard nuisance (at least they are at my house!). We spent two evenings preparing the rocks with a base coat of paint and the kids were quite excited for this program. It was amazingly successful and everyone seemed to have a great time.
On the heels of the art program, we "flipped" the library and hosted the 4th Anniversary party. The biggest hit for Aleah and Nicholas was, by far, Miss Sue the face painter. They adore Miss Sue, as she is the page at the library and they see her often. All I had to do was remind them that they waited too long at last year's party and missed their opportunity to get their faces painted. Oh, boy! NOT this time! As you can see my little darlings took FULL advantage of Miss Sue's time and generosity. She did, however, draw the line, when Aleah ran out of arms and face and presented her belly! I gently explained to Aleah that it wasn't 'that' kind of party :-)
It was a long day, but the result was a cool art project and a marvelous community event.