Most of you who read my blog would know that I had a reunion here with 9 of my classmates from College, actually 8. One of them brought her elder sister to assist her, due to arthritis. So, we had 9 guests all week. We all had a blast and now I am missing them. Good thing my daughter, her hubby and 3 babies are coming next week so I have something to look forward to.
That was last week and I would like to share with you, the tablescape that I created for their first dinner here, after they all arrived last Saturday, June 2nd.
We called our group "The Spooks" in College and we are referred by that name to this day.
That is the reason my theme here are ghosts. We all graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Medical Technology, although 3 of them (one did not make it to the reunion) pursued their studies and became physicians.
I ordered the ghost salad plates from a web store but I can't remember which one. It was the first time I ordered from that site and the plates are Waechtersbach (thanks to Donna of Conghaile Cottage for reminding me), made in Germany.
There's Babes at the end admiring the table! Baby is an original member but we lost track of her amd then just found her sometime last year. Thanks to the internet! She still lives in the Philippines. She flew all the way from there to join us and it was nice to see her again after 42 years.
There were 10 of us including John so I added a chair and a place setting on both sides of the table.
It is not too easy to see but my centerpiece consists of a scale. On one end of the scale, is a big white graduated cylinder, a small microscope and a beaker. I placed white carnations on the cylinder and beaker.
On the other side of the scale, I placed another beaker and 2 sizes of bottles. I bought the bottles from West Elm during our trip to Atlanta 3 weeks ago. I thought they looked like they had chemicals in them. I am trying to recreate a Chemistry lab since we are Laboratory Technologists. I also placed a narrower clear graduated cylinder in between the 2 scale plates and added white carnations in it too.
My classmates really got a kick out of the plates and the centerpiece. They were in awe and so amazed!
We had a toast using the silver plated wine glasses.
I used hammered flatware.
And here is introducing "The Spooks"! Ironically, we really aren't quite scary, are we?
Some of you probably wonder how I could do it, entertain 8 people for a whole week. Actually it was easy. They felt so at home that they entertained themselves and me, lol. I prepared the first meal because I knew we wouldn't have much time since they all arrived on the same day and we were mostly in the airport, which is an hour and a half drive away. I picked up the first 5 who arrived earlier and we went home while John picked up the remaining 3. As soon as we got home, one of them immediately worked in the kitchen and cooked one more dish, the sweet and sour fish, while all the others helped. By the time the last 3 arrived with John, dinner was ready.
I cooked a chicken with papaya dish, called Tinola, the night before.
This was our dessert table which I prepared ahead of time too. I posted it last week so you probably have already seen it.
We had such a good time bonding. You could hear laughter all over the house at all waking hours. John commented "What a nice group!" He even joined us doing water aerobics. We did so many projects and went all over. It was a hectic week but we got to relax too, doing projects such as oil painting, origami, jewelry making, swimming and aerobisizing. I can't wait for next year and we plan to hold it in Regina, Canada.
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