...helping with a Tea Party at the Columbus Botanical Garden. There is a volunteer who has been really involved in lots of things at the Gardens over the years who has a little catering business she runs out of her home. She had agreed to make party fare for a reception at the Gardens following the big-deal Garden Gala luncheon at the country club. I offered to help when I discovered the demand for my knife skills had greatly diminished at my paying job. (Meaning I am working a great big whopping nine hours this week.)
But that surprising news at work allowed me to be helpful with the prep. for the Tea Party and do a bit of quality control testing all the yummy finger foods being prepared for the event. Tasty, densely chocolate-y brownies with nuts, most excellent lemon bars topped with raspberries. Tiny little round, open-faced cucumber sandwiches. Delicious looking rounds topped with smoked salmon slivers. Neat little squares of bread that would deposit swoon-inducing bruschetta on your taste buds. All very attractively plated and laid out on a beautiful sheer hand-painted table cloth for guests to pick, choose, enjoy.
The person who was the speaker for the luncheon came and talked to a smaller crowd, apparently showing a power point of more ideas that could be adapted for decorating. I missed both the luncheon (at $50 a plate) and the Tea Party talk, due to being a worker-bee in the kitchen. But there was a good crowd for the After Party. And I understand the luncheon was sold out of tickets before the invitations were mailed out. So I would have to assume it was a roaring success, with a goodly amount of funding raised to continue the programs and development of the local Botanical Garden.
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