{"id":4494,"date":"2013-04-07T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T02:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingfireflies.com\/blog\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2013-04-16T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T22:13:27","slug":"a-fun-time-at-festifools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/a-fun-time-at-festifools\/","title":{"rendered":"a fun time at festifools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve &amp; I made our way down to Ann Arbor Sunday afternoon to experience the art-full parade of puppets make their way down Main Street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4501\" alt=\"festifools ann arbor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools7.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools7.jpg 612w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools7-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools7-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/festifools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Festifools<\/a> brings students and community volunteers together to create unique public art that is free and accessible to everyone. Specifically, they make huge-mongous papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 puppets and march them around in early April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4498\" alt=\"festifools\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools4.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools4.jpg 612w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools4-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools4-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4497\" alt=\"festifools\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools3.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools3.jpg 612w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools3-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools3-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The creativity was quite impressive and the environment oh-so-whimsical.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4496\" alt=\"festifools\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools2.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools2.jpg 612w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4500\" alt=\"festifools mother earth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools6.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools6.jpg 612w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools6-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools6-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4499\" alt=\"festifools\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools5.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools5.jpg 612w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools5-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools5-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not surprising that mother earth and happy hippie guy made an appearance :-)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4495\" alt=\"festifools\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools1.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools1.jpg 612w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4502\" alt=\"festifools\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools8.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools8.jpg 612w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools8-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/festifools8-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pretty purple dragon was one of my favs&#8230; along with <a href=\"http:\/\/statigr.am\/viewer.php#\/detail\/429135912143102313_4042503\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. VanGough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ummamuseum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4504\" alt=\"vincent vangough\" 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