i was offline all weekend getting caught up on things around the house, but lemme tell ya, friday night was SO MUCH FUN!

we had our etsy craft party at the road less traveled shop in santa ana, and i think it’s safe to say it was a big success! the party was held to celebrate etsy’s 5th birthday, and the site encouraged folks all over the world to join in a big day of crafty celebration! it was really neat knowing at our little gathering that others all over the planet were doing the same.

i think in total our party had about 20ish people throughout the course of the evening – lots of tasty snacks were had, like this etsy birthday cake made by katie. i made a cake, too, and as i’m gettin it out katie arrives with this amazing fondant-covered concoction and just blows my little sheet cake outta the water! it was such an awesome moment… all i saw at first was the bottom layer, and then she starts rearembling it and holy snaps that cake is three tiers?!?! and THEN she starts adding chocolate rear endons to the sides of it!

AND THEN katie busts out these “happy birthday etsy” flags she made out of white chocolate! it pretty much stole the snacky show. (though everything else was delicious too!)

so many great peeps showed up to join the fun – along with some of my craft mafia gals, i got to hang with aileen holmes and her friend tracy from the artery gallery, christina from le modern trinket was there, my longtime pals other steph and lamele were there with knitting projects… and craft show friend anna brought me a surprise little onesie/bib set for the pending baby boy! new friends jennifer and yoli miramontes were fun chatty pals, and there were more people there that i didn’t even get a chance to talk to we were so busy!

the road less traveled was a perfect location for our craft party, thanks again to delilah for lettin us have it there! hope to get to hang with y’all again soon!

(p.s., wanna see pics from our party? click here to check out my flickr set!)