New Moon Madness!

Last night, 36 people came out to celebrate the New Moon movie at our release party. We did it a week early so it didn't interfere with anyone's actual movie viewing, and the bonus was that it was Friday the 13th! Huge thanks to the Teen Advisory Board (TAB) for funding this event and suggesting some of the activities. The TAB purchased the cardboard cutout of Robert Pattinson, as well as all of the Twilight products we used for prizes and some of the craft supplies.

Some of our activities came from the hilarious new dating advice book The Vampire Is Just Not That Into You. We took two magazine-style quizzes to test our compatibility with the vampire of our dreams and we also wrote vampire love poetry. I wish I had more than one copy of the book in our collection because a lot of people wanted to check it out!

After watching the relevant scene in the Twilight movie, we made glitter gel, so that we could sparkle like a vampire in the sun. Scooping it into the containers proved to be more of a challenge than I bargained for. Next time, we will use funnels! It did turn out really cute, though. We also did a Mad-Lib of the initial meeting of Bella and Edward. I had to collect a lot of nouns, verbs, and adjectives, but it was really funny, especially after watching the serious scene in the Twilight movie.

Later, we had a cupcake decorating contest in honor of the beginning of New Moon when Alice sets up an elaborate celebration of Bella's birthday. Everone got a devil's food cupcake with white icing and directions to do something related to the Twilight series. After that, it was a free-for-all of candy, pretzels, red and black icing, and creativity! Emily was the overall winner and she won a New Moon shirt, while our four runners-up (Anila, Jasmine, Kaitlyn, and Jolene)won Twilight Sweetarts. We watched some of the New Moon movie trailers while we enjoyed the cupcakes and some other snacks.

At the end, my book display of vampire fiction was demolished, and a lot of people also took my newly-updated list of vampire books. If you missed the list, extra copies are now down in the teen section. I hope everyone had a great time!

Robert Pattinson was a popular guest at our party!

The winning entry in our cupcake decorating contest!

A cupcake runner-up: I loved his hair

Another runner-up: Edward and Bella

One more runner-up: a pretzel werewolf

New Moon!!!

For any of you who have not heard: The New Moon trailer is out, and it looks good! There are also some pretty cute werewolf pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwnidftwZ_M

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259571/

Hope you enjoy!

Eclipse Prom!

Tonight, 15 teens came to the Eclipse Prom to celebrate the upcoming release of the third book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series! We made souvenier picture frames, did a Mad-Lib of the time when Bella and Edward first met, had a contest to make Bella's prom shoe and walking cast, played Twlight baseball trivia, ate snacks with FORKS and drank ARIZONA tea, and took tons of pictures. Seriously, a bunch of people brought cameras and we spent a lot of time posing! Marissa won a prize for being best dressed. She did her hair beautifully, wore the prom dress she made herself, and even sported a walking cast! Other people won prizes for funny things like "most unexpectedly frilly" and "most colorful." Special thanks to Kara for making an atmospheric music CD for the party. It was great fun. I hope the book is as good as the party was!

Everyone who loves Edward got to hold the cake!

The silly group photo.

Working on creating a cast.

Beautiful dresses on some of my favorite readers!

One group decorating souvenier picture frames.

The lone male attendee put up with a lot!

Everyone shows off their group's entries in the Bella contest.

Complete picture frames and more pretty dresses!

A cute group photo.

Attacking the cake.