24 hours until the ball!

ONLY 24 HOURS LEFT UNTIL THE BALL! The bees are buzzing and running as fast as they can to get everything ready for the ball! Over 100 people are eating at our house and getting ready for our biggest ball ever! Not only that, but all of our projects in the town of Machias are wrapping up beautifully!

One of our volunteers, Mujahid, recorded a personal interview with folks from the workparty. Give it a listen while you look at these photos!

This work is possible only because of the enthusiastic energy of volunteers and the generous donations of our supporters from near and far. We can't do this without you! Please visit our Kickstarter Campaign and consider making a donation to get our worker bees over the finish line. You can also give us cash or check donations at our house (101 court street in Machias), at the Machias Valley Grange & Cultural Center (1 Elm Street). Project collaborators include the Machias Rotary Club and Viking Lumber, which is providing lumber at cost.

We got 20 people to put the heaviest part of the wheelchair lift onto the newly refurbished stairwell!

Not only did we have to reinforce the stairwell to hold the weight of the lift, but we had to enclose it completely to keep the motor safe from rain and snow.

We had to keep working, even in the rain...

We also had to keep dancing, even in the rain...

Not only did we work on finishing painting the Whole Life building, but we're also hanging banners up to advertise the festival.

...and of course, we're still rolling posters...

Our book binding production is getting faster and faster! Books are being made to be sold to fund raise at the blueberry festival.

Printing, Printing, and more printing at the craft house...

Not to mention that we've been sewing, sewing, and more sewing for our massive park decorations plan...

Not only do we create lots of books, but we're teaching lots of folks how to do it...

The line for meals is getting longer and longer...

Our meals are feeding more and more people every day...

...and we're washing more and more dishes each day!

The set that we made for the blueberry festival was completed just in time!

We're painting over 40 signs to put all over the park the night of the ball...

Our decorations are coming together beautifully!

Beautiful stencils were made to decorate our park flags...

Don't worry, we always remember to have fun while we're working.

We finished painting the Whole Life building this week!

We got to participate in banner drops all over town!

We also got to hang banners off the bank in the middle of town

We never forget to swim on these beautiful summer days...

Last night we had a talent show! We had an incredible turn out of wonderful performers!

We were serenaded with music from all sort of wonderful musicians

And at the end of the show, we had an impromptu wedding on stage! Do you work party, agree to take work party, as your loftly wedded work party, in sickness or in health?

WE DO!

If you want to see even more photos, our photographer friend Nicola Krebill is here taking hundreds of photos every day! You can check out his Flickr account to see more!