Creativity

Sometimes I am amazed at the creativity of my friends. Not that I'm surprised by it, but it never ceases to amaze me. Tonight my friend Emilie and I hosted a Mad Tea Party for our double birthday party. It was Alice in Wonderland themed and we requested that our guests arrive in costume. We decorated her house and made a zillion cupcakes and made our own costumes, but that was where our creativity ended and the guests' creativity started. As soon as people started showing up, Emilie's house started to become Wonderland. Everyone had a unique costume, from people merely taping cards to their clothing, to a pink flamingo (my personal favorite costume of the night), to the Gryphon, to Bill the Lizard. I felt so much love and gratitude to all of my friends who came. Each and every one of my friends who attended put some sort of effort and creative thought into what they were dressed in. I love that my friends jump whole-heartedly into things like costume parties. I feel it gives a sort of joy to life. And tonight also proved to me that you don't have to go to great lengths to be creative. As long as you have a little bit of thought, and a lot of imagination, creativity will come.