Thursday Review Club

Our Thursday Review Club started a new year this past September! 

Jotana and I hosted at the united Methodist church and I have to say that it turned out beautifully!

  Jotana and her husband made a wonderful meal of  chicken parmesan and all of the goodies that go along with an Italian meal! 

Like yummy olive oil for dipping!

I went with a white vintage garden for my decorating inspiration as our club theme this year is gardening for the soul. 

I added in a bit of birthday bash to add a hint of color and to try to change it up a touch from last year. We had cupcakes with the colored candles and dessert plates that matched each persons birth stone. I had cupcake wrappers printed up but they came out to big to fit. O'well right?!

The flower balls hanging on the vintage frame are made out of gift tissue and cupcake wrappers.

I also made a few flower napkin rings from silk flowers and twine. 

 You can click the pictures to follow the links for the tutorials on how to make them. The rest of the napkin rings were grapevines from save-on-crafts.com.  I used burlap as the table runners and added lots of glass jars, vases and anything vintage bird or nest like that I could find. The little glass birds and wine stopper came from pier one. 

The chalkboard door hangers were the take home memento for the evening. 

I bought the wood from hobby lobby and my husband and I painted them with about two coats of chalkboard paint then added a gold leafing to the edges. I added a velvet ribbon and gem stone to bring in the birth stone color again, or at least as close as I could find! The Wheeler Thursday Review Club sign is made in the same manner and just added acrylic rhinestones to the edges for an extra shine. 

Such a lovely evening and I cant wait for our next meeting! Great friends and food!

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. 

Pam Brown

With Love,