About two months before any Love of Friends party the team and LoF friends begin to put together the goody for that year. 2011 was hand-made desk calendars, 2010 was tote bags made from recycled tee-shirts that lots of friends dropped off to us, one year we made pins out of wooden hearts and magnets…and all of these years have a few things in common
* We drink a lot of wine “to survive the night.” The LoF team loves one another, that has to be the case to meet so often to put together a party with a budget of ne’r zero dollars. But, sometimes things get a bit hectic, like last year when we had still over 30 bags to make just days before LoF4…luckily snowmageddon struck and that freed up some time.
* We enlist the help of a ton of friends to hang with us, drink wine, tea, seltzer and eat lots of snacks to help us put together the goody whatever that might be–this party is all about love, and making the day special for each person and ensuring NO ONE STRESSES OUT that it’s Vday, so of course we need to have the ideas and unique touches only our friends can provide to put together our items. For our calendars this year, Maya and Ryder decorated the month of June with stamps from Japan, Alma’s mom was visiting from Mexico City and decorated May for us, and Verity decorated many pages of many months seeing her work go from detailed to more abstract and big as the hours slipped away.
* No matter what the craft is in which we put our minds to accomplishing so that our friends have something special to take home at the end of the night to remember LoF always, it hasn’t failed us yet that whoever’s home it happens to be that we set up shop to make our craft, the house always always always looks like this:
The madness before the best party of the year.
