My Summer of Flags

I just found these flags on the blogosphere. They're at Annie's Blue Ribbon General Store, so cute, and they made me want to report on some other fabulous flag projects of the summer.

My friend Elli who is a genius (and a 1st grade teacher) came up with a brilliant idea for her wedding. She sent squares of fabric with her invites and requested her guests decorate them before the wedding. A beautiful string of wish flags, each one unique, lined the site of the outdoor ceremony.

Two weeks later, I set out to help my friend Heather decorate the CAGJ banquet venue, a windowless box in the basement of St. Demetrios Church. We couldn't do much besides hang stuff from the stage and from the back balcony. In the spirit of CAGJ, a grassroots organization, I thought it would be fun to have all the volunteers decorate a flag, then string them between the balconies to lower the ceiling plane and give some color to the drab 80's banquet hall. We used CAGJ colors, green and orange and screen-printed some with the CAGJ logo. Lots of people pitched in but I have to give special props to Francisca, who burned the midnight oil with me the night before the event!