Sometime back I got an email from Leah asking me to be part of a decorating team. For the last couple of years, Leah, Amy, and their mom Nancy have been in charge of putting on a Christmas dinner at the Irving Bible Church. Every year the women at the church decorate tables and come for some delicious food, fun, and great entertainment and raise some money for a good cause in the process. Well last year Nancy, their mom, decorated a ton of tables all on her own and barely finished in time. So this year, Leah had asked some of us to help and be on a team that could help her mom out.
So early one cold December morning I met up with my friend Jennifer and we headed out to the Irving Bible Church. When we got there tons of tables had already been decorated but there were still tons in progress, and some still waiting to be done. Here is what the scene looked like when we arrived.
Our team (minus me) Jennifer, Tiffany, Lindsey, and Leah
Once there we set about to get things decorated. Nancy does a wonderful job of planning these tables out during the year and then sets them up at home, takes a picture so even if she isn't setting the table up someone could easily use it as a guide to set up the table. We divided into two teams Tiff and Lindsey, and me and Jennifer. Nancy even had stuff to decorate the bathrooms. Here is the girls bathroom:
And the boys (no boys were actually there so it was used as a 2nd womans bathroom)
Jennifer and I's first table was a black and pink table with a pink christmas tree. I loved this table it was girly, glitzy, fun, and of course it had one of my favorite things, it was PINK!
The pink Christmas tree, it had a pink feather boa and black feathers and sparkly ornaments in pink and black.
The place settings
Nancy had provided these back loofa scrubbers to decorate the chairs but they were too short to put on the way she had and so we changed it up and tied them on and added some leftover ornaments. There were two different chair types. It kind of reminds me of an old perfume bottle.
The centerpiece was a cute hatbox and it also had these cute crosses
and some small purses
It ended up super cute and we totally loved it. I would have loved to have sat at this table. Our finished product!
Our second table was a little more difficult. Nancy had put a box together of black, red, silver and white, but didn't really have a plan. She told is we were free to make it look however we want, to play around with what we had. Here is our start, There was a started centerpiece and we played around with the fabric till we found something we liked.
This was our planning process. We kind of made a huge mess. we drug everything out of our tub and we started looking at everything
The finalized place setting
The final product:
from another angle
Sometimes people don't show up until too late to decorate their table or don't show up at all so we have to set up some tables really quickly. The last table I helped with was one of these. The theme for this table turned out to be:
Peppermint Candy Canes! The chairs had cute candy cane striped ribbons.
The place setting
The centerpiece
The final table! Not bad for 15 minutes!
Some of the tables were raffle tables, meaning some part or all of the table was up to be won. All you had to do was buy raffle tickets and drop a ticket into the glass bowl on the table. One of the tables decorated by Amy had a coffee theme because part of the prize on the table was Keurig coffee maker. It was super cute!
Leah had also made it possible for us to stay and enjoy the dinner, and entertainment by getting is a table. Here is my name holder at our table. It is a cute pin that can be used for other things like your hair or pinned to a sweater.
The dinner in full swing. It was tons of women walking around, laughing, talking, hugging, dropping off their tickets, and having a great time.
The dinner was delicious! And after dinner we had some great entertainment. They had an improv group called Pavlov's Dog come and perform for us. They were hilarious and had everyone laughing. Here are Jennifer and I all glamed up at dinner.
Leah, Amy, and I
And how cute are these ladies in their aprons! Leah, Nancy, and Amy. It's hard to find a cuter, sweeter, kinder trio of women! I just love them all. Thanks Leah for asking me to help and Nancy I had a blast! If you need help next year, I'm in!!!
