Super MARIAH Party: The Idea

So yes, I am a loser and I spend way too much time where I should be working... ummm... doing crafty things that to most seem extremely dorky. Well, they are. And I don't care because its fun and I kick ass at it.

So for my little sister's "Chrismukkah" present I decided to do something a little different this year. She has so much crap. And by "so much" I mean she has everything. All the crap in the world my little sister has. What she doesn't have, however, is a lot of quality time with her 3 older siblings that are in their 20s while she is in middle school. I started thinking of something I could do that would involve all 4 of the siblings, something that would be fun and different. Then it came to me, like divine intervention, (wait do Jews believe in that??) SUPER MARIAH PARTY!

The back story: my siblings and I love Super Mario Party. Okay, not much of a "story." Basically what this would involve would be making a real-life Super Mario Party-like game set up around my mom's house. If you've ever played Mario Party (which if you haven't, you need to stop what you're doing and get to it) its involved. There are different kinds of spaces, mini-games, maps, stars, coins, yada yada yada.

ANYWAY... this is what I gave Mariah for Chrismukkah:

Basically just took a cardboard box (actually lucked out on this one because the guys at Staples were throwing out boxes that held a poster paper shipment so they just gave it to me, AND IT WAS THE PERFECT SIZE!) and then I wrapped it in red wrapping paper and drew in the buttons at the bottom. Then took the top of a clothes box (had like a 100 of them for holiday presents) taped it on and added the printed out graphic that I had already made. The graphic actually lifts up to reveal "Featuring" pages that display who will be what character in the game. Mariah likes birdo, so had to make sure that diva was in there.

Mariah is super excited. I am in the midst of getting all the shit together. Only 3 days away!!