Fishy, fishy

Last night (or more precisely, early this morning), I realized that I had totally neglected preparing invitations for Matthew’s little party on Monday. As reminders are given out on Fridays before the children are let out for the weekend, it would have really been best to include a party reminder in everyone’s envelope.

It would be  shame to do this wrong, as I’ve already prepared the details for everything else: the theme, the decor, the food, the games, the special surprise, the loot.

The invitations? Oh no!

Drawing would have been a bad idea. Designing on the computer felt wrong — everything for this party is to be handmade or low cost or recycled.

So I logged online and looked for inspiration, walked around, thought a bat, all in the effort of not ending up as the deadbeat mom who forgot to send out invitations to her kid’s own birthday party.

The theme is ocean creatures. I looked at cakes, nurseries, crafts projects. And it hit me… fish origami! Not that I knew anything about paper folding beyond a making paper boats. But that was what the internet was for.

Voila! I learned, I tore old magazines, and I made 12 little fishies.

I tucked a little note in the folds. And straightened out the tails as much as I could.

Not bad, if I say so myself.

We’re off to a good start. Monday, we see the rest of the details come together.