There are some things that you dream about happening, and then there are some things that happen that are so much better than your dreams could be.  Sassy Mouth taking to the streets of Meriden during the Daffodil Festival parade, with a message of Peace, and Love, and Hope, and Unity, at a time where that is exactly what everyone needs most…..it was one of the most beautiful sites that I ever did see.   Tear.  We played Rob Thomas‘ “Someday” all around Mirror Lake, and swayed and peaced and bubbled and spread some major love to everyone there.  Someday also inspired the whole thing, although we took our own Sassy take on it!

From Sunday to Saturday morning, we worked on parts of the parade.  I painted the signs (with some adorable kids and Daniel’s help), my mom assembled them and dazzled them with ribbons and sequins and magic.  The newspaper asked to come on Tuesday to interview me about the parade (you can read that HERE) and we painted and hot glued all sorts of things in the sassy space for the rest of the week, including the giant peace dove, crafted out of my sisters old pregnancy pillow, duct tape, hot glue, feathers, and my old ikea curtains.    So many of my peeps contributed wonderful things to the parade, I have to absolutely appreciate how everyone add their own magic things to the whole project, and I trust them all and their skills, then like magic, we are all together and amazing.  My cousin Courtney contributed Tie Dye kit and I held T-shirt Tie Dye (minus the karaoke) in my side yard on Thursday night.  The Canalia Family came, and thank you to them for the very cool wagon sign, AND Sara Canalia owner of C & L Couture Creations made EVERY MARCHER a fantastic bottle cap necklace.  Thank you so much!   We handed out hundreds of PEACE LOVE SASSY MOUTH buttons from The Button Monster to people along the parade route!  They looked so great and made everyone so happy!  Take THAT tossing candy! Haha.   My Aunt Joy and cousin Micaela made the LOVE letters for the front, Lori and Heather made the balloons happen.  There were cute kids in costumes, a cute dog in costume, great people in Tie Dyes.  Cliff from (CLIFFPRO) rocked out a serious fro, and Jessica (LOVECOLORFUL   and coming soon The Confetti Bar!) brought us the confetti wands that were like serious magic when everyone set them off at the same time.

Thank you to the bird handlers, the marchers, to TJ (who helps me SO MUCH with this stuff!) to everyone else that made shirts, showed up, looked great, and represented for Sassy Mouth Photography!! I appreciate everyone and everything you did, and hope that you enjoyed being a part of it.  If you missed our debut last year, you can CHECK THAT OUT HERE.   I have more pictures from the rest of the day, and the festival, to come at another time, but for now, enjoy some PEACE LOVE AND SASSY MOUTH.