Almost every year I throw a big birthday party and invite all my friends and I cater it and basically it is just a big awesome party because in case you haven't noticed, I love to celebrate stuff. It's something my friends look forward to because usually I have some kind of entertainment and it's one time of year we actually all come together. Everyone knows "No gifts" but it is BYOB because I don't drink alcohol and won't even purchase it.
So this year I chose to have my girlfriend Cat lead everyone through one of those Painting With a Twist dealios because she is an instructor. So everyone agreed they'd pay $15 and we'd paint here in my home. I couldn't afford to pay for everyone but it was a unanimous decision that nearly 20 girls wanted to do this and were all in for the price. But it was up to me to find all the product to make it happen. Tabletop easels, 3 different kind of brushes per person, canvas and acrylics.
It was SO stressful. I drove all over Orlando trying to find this stuff. Easels weren't hard to find, it's just that each store only had 3 or 4 and wouldn't order more for me and just wanted to send me to another store and I didn't want to pay shipping on them because they were SO heavy. Amazon was zero help with easels btw.
The paint brushes though, holy crap, SO EXPENSIVE. $15 was not going to come close to covering them much less the easel and canvas. I had no idea that paint brushes were like $4-$9 a piece so 3 per person for about 20 people...So finally I found a dealer on Ebay who sold them in "lots". They weren't the BEST brushes but it was a one time thing so who cares.
So I put in my order on a Friday night and they don't do web stuff on the weekend. They are brick and mortar as well and by the time they got to my order Monday they sold a lot of my brushes so they wrote and said they'd need to substitute this for that and the other. Fine whatever, again, just for fun one time not the end of the world. I paid and made positive my address on the Ebay invoice and Paypal invoice was my own. It said confirmed.
Well today (it's my birthday by the way) I get a phone call: Oops, we accidentally sent it to your sister in Ohio. We can't get them to you until she sends them back to us. Um, my sister, god love her, is a flake. She is NOT going to get those brushes back to you any time soon and no matter what, it is YOUR error. Go find me more brushes.
Nope, they don't have anything similar, we'd have to substitute huge changes.
So, now we can't paint. Nearly 3 weeks of me driving all over Orlando finding easels, stressing, figuring out how much cost I was eating in gas, headaches and whatever the heck else...and 2 days before, we can't paint. Now we are doing another craft called Alcohol Ink Coasters and it will all be fine. But seriously. Shoot me in the head. That is all, thank you for listening. LOL