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Can you hear the roar of the crowd….

Here are the pictures of a waterfront condo being transformed into a stadium, in a desperate attempt to cheer up my boyfriend from a ’supposed to be amazing trip that was planned for more then a year’ that turned into ‘a weekend from hell’ to watch the NCAA basketball tournament live in Buffalo. My sometimes ingeninious (sp?) brain concocts odd plans to execute, and this one turned out pretty damn amazingly well, if i don’t say so my conceitedly so self. A poster/banner hung on the apartment door titled ‘Minckler Misadventure Merioral Centre’. As you walk into the apartment I tranformed his kitchen into a food station with all the triming that would be found in an arena. Fresh french fries in the classic fresh cut fries container and popped popcorn in the classic popcorn bag all ready for when he came home from work, with hotdogs cooking for him keeping warm on the coils similiar to 711’s style, peanuts in the shell, and of course - LOTS of beer in plastics cups ONLY. (See pics below - i hand crafted them just an hour before out of shoe boxes, tin foil, candles, etc.)

I of course dressed up as his favorite teams cheerleader, made pompoms and tied ribbon in the hair. I bought a stuffed animal to be the mascot, and bought foam swords to be the distractors during free throws, i attached a large image of the team to his coffee table to be the centre, I turned the sofa into the team bench with a team banneracross the back, including large images of the mascot, and taped pics of cheering cheerleaders up under the tv (to give a more stadium feel).

I then transformed his living room area into crowded stands by platering the walls with pics of crazy crowds - i had to include ‘the drunk guy in the crowd’, the ‘pretty girl inthe crowd’ staple shots, and of course a few empty seats and the nose bleed section of the masses way up high in the stands.

I hope you have enjoyed craft time.