Diamonds in the Dust

I am just so proud of my daughter. Let me start at the beginning. D No 2 rang me about eight weeks ago to ask if I could help her with a ‘ladies night’ she was planning. She had come up with the idea of holding a dinner for the ladies of the district. You see, there has been a lot of funding available for ‘men’s health’ functions as the farming communities  of Australia battle with greater outputs than inputs, putting a huge amount of pressure on farming families.Depression and suicide sadly are very real and common within the farming communities. My daughter thought that the women supporting the farmers needed some TLC. She managed to obtain funding from the onelife foundation which covered a guest speaker and some entertainment for the night. Each woman paid$50 for the night and this included a wonderful 3 course meal and a chance to win two beautiful diamonds. Her theme for the night was ‘Diamonds in the Dust’. As you can imagine, I charged in flat out. I made a chalkboard (thanks to Dear Lillie for the tutorial)  and  had this displayed behind the guest speaker. We had an absolute ball discussing decorating ideas and the whole night was a wonderful success. She was hoping to have about 40-50 ladies and we ended up with 115 and had to turn down another 16 as we were full. Not a bad effort for just a few weeks work. We went with the silver and white theme for the Diamonds and we even had red carpet for the ladies to walk along when they entered. (Sorry no photo of that!). We had 15 tables to decorate so they were all slightly different but all with the silver/white theme. I have a bit of photo overload so I hope you don’t mind.















We are already thinking of new ideas for next year if we are able to obtain some funding – maybe a long table luncheon!! What a wonderful daughter I have!!

Suzyq

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