I Deserve a Sticker

I finished all my homework today, and it's only Thursday. Yes, the gifts for the shower are wrapped, the little details I needed to do -- print things for the centerpieces, etc. -- are all done, and most of all, I finished the wishing well.

Is the wishing well something that people do everywhere? Sometimes people rent an actual fru-fru wishing well from a party store, all done up in crepe paper, sometimes it's a basket, and in this case, I went overboard. (More to follow.) Anyway, the idea is that if it's, say, a kitchen shower, then in addition to the gift each guest brings, each guest brings (it's optional, actually) a small kitchen gadget, like a can opener, and tosses it into the wishing well unwrapped, no name. If there's another theme, the wishing well can go with that. We're having a gift card wishing well, which we did for Wonderful Niece five years ago. In addition to the gift, each guest may bring a gift card to almost anywhere, in a small amount. (I think I explained this before, but I'm on a roll.)

So, this shower is being held in a Cuban themed restaurant. This is what I made to be the wishing well:



See, tropical fruit, rum, seashells? Gift cards? Anyway, that's it. I wish it were Monday.

My cold is better but not gone. I have rented an adorable little minivan for Sunday. And tomorrow I prepare to bring my sewing machine upstairs, at long last.