I’m not sure how much I’ve let on about this, but when it comes to crafting I’m often pretty confident in being able to replicate a lot of things I see or visualize without any sort of instructions on how to do so. My favorite type of order is one where I have to make a brand new item I’ve never made before and that hopefully brings on a different type of challenge from what I’m used to, keeping things fresh and exciting for me. This order checks all of those boxes and beyond.

My best friend shared information on my craftabilities with her boss who is throwing her son a Monster Truck-themed party for his fourth birthday, and needs a few items that aren’t readily available on the market. When I got the call all I knew was that the party theme was Monster Trucks, and nothing else. Once we started talking and she shared what she wanted for the party, I panicked a little bit. She wants a ramp for the kids to be able to throw down the little monster trucks (apparently ramps for that size of toy cars don’t exist), some little truck boxes the kids could put on and run around in as if they were wearing cars, and a big car prop that could be used for them to take pictures. All three of these items are things I haven’t even remotely thought of making before, and two of them are on a bigger scale from anything I’ve ever attempted (other than maybe some backdrops, which were lighter and way less intimidating). For some reason though, I said “I think I can do this. I’m in.”

Tiny little problem though – the party is on the same day as my best friend’s engagement party, for which I’m doing a LOT of items, and another friend requested some stuff for her own engagement party, you guessed it, on that same day. April 29th, otherwise known as my personal D-Day. Why did my friend share my information if she knew that the parties were on the same day, you may ask (as did I)? Well, the world may never know but part of it was she didn’t know exactly what her boss wanted, so she did it innocently.

I have about a month to fit those two engagement parties, the monster truck birthday and a wedding order that keeps going and going. Go big or go home, right?

I’m going to make this blog into a three part series so that this isn’t an endless book, and each of the items will have its own dedicated post. Here we goooooooooooooooooooooooooo!