FiOS is in the House

Fault In Our Stars mobile

Can you feel it?

The excitement is palpable. Like locker room smell. Only pleasant. It's composed of a combination of adolescent hormonal reactions and idle time mixed with cute actors and a ridiculously fabulous book by Sir John Green. Only he hasn't been knighted yet.

Fault In Our Stars arrives in theaters June 6th. And even though it's still April, I'm in full FiOS mode. It's what happens to me when kids get this jazzed about a book. Or should I say a book I'm actually that jazzed about too.

And this book is so full of goodness. Hazel and Augustus and their friends and family. The quotable dialogue that from any other author would come across as obnoxious and the first thing you'd do after you rolled your eyes would be to say, "teens don't talk like that." And they don't. But John Green teens do and they're fabulous at it. It has travel and romance and good times and a lot of well-earned pathos.

I'm brimming with FiOS goodness. For the somewhat longest time I was thinking and thinking what I'm going to do to celebrate the occasion of the film's release. I was scrounging on Pinterest for FiOS crafts but nothing spoke to me. I'd pinned FiOS crafts and FiOS quotes (of which there are so so many and so so many people who post them). And then, like lightning, I happened to pin a random Summer Reading Club idea for DIY mobiles right next to a FiOS necklace project. (Note to Self and Others: boys probably don't want to make jewelry crafts).

And then it hit me. And there you have it. My super-fantastic Fault In Our Stars Quote Mobile. I used the same black and white clouds motif, taking quotes I liked best, and strung them onto pencils wrapped in that iconic color of blue seen on the cover of the book. And voila!

Actually, eventual voila! Because first I started a mobile that was chock full of tape and looked like it. So my voila was compounded exponentially by personal grit and determination, which are qualities I don't always possess in the crafting department.

Not only was I a little bit high on myself for the rest of the day. But not a few hours after hanging my mobile in the library, a squealing teen patron approached me about it. I told her that while she couldn't take it when I was done with it, she was welcome to come to my program and make her own!

More on my highly anticipated FiOS party to come!