Tiny table on a budget - and a housewarming!
Mar 25, 2022 16:56:20 GMT
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Post by jenjie on Mar 25, 2022 16:56:20 GMT
After 7 years, my friend moved from assisted living to her own apartment. It’s been so much fun helping her, we surprised her with a housewarming and helped fill her home and her life with beautiful things. People have donated furniture but one thing she still lacked was a kitchen table. And her kitchen is tiny.
I found this on amazon. I 100% recommend it if you need a table this size. Maybe not if you have small children bc it is actually a card table. Logan helped me deliver it yesterday and it was absolutely perfect. It’s 32x32. It says solid wood, although it’s not all one piece. It’s sturdy, doesn’t wobble and it’s beautiful. Best of all, she uses a power chair (electric wheelchair) and she can just roll right up and it fits perfectly. She said she hasn’t had a table in 7 years (this is how long she’s been in assisted living), she only ate with a plate on her lap.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00OYJCM0O?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
The housewarming was so much fun! She was so glad to receive anything people wanted to donate but I knew she needed things that were are beautiful and hers instead of someone’s castoffs. We had about 20 people, some she knew and some she didn’t but everyone wanted to celebrate her. I gave a welcome speech and her friends kept interrupting, shouting out “answers” to questions I wasn’t asking. 😂 I said this is not the participation part of the program! 😁 (I’m actually her newest friend so far, we met on church fb page last summer and didn’t meet in person til November.)
I think this is the first time she’s been able to BE with people in this manner bc assisted living kept getting locked down. So there was just so much excitement. My welcome was focused on celebrating her and the good things God has brought her to, and about how God will write a beautiful story with your life when you give him the pen.
Here are a few pics from the party.
I made this with my cricut. Very few of us would want this phrase after the past few years, but for someone who has not had a home of her own for 7 years, it was perfect. She cried. You may see each table has a different plant. I wanted her to take them home so her home would be filled with flowers.
Everyone received a “jewel” topped pen. (Surprisingly, It writes very nicely for a novelty pen.)We had them put a note of blessing or encouragement in the blessing jar.
Some of the gifts. This cross! It was like the sisterhood of the traveling cross, it passed back and forth multiple times between me and my 2 BFFs over the last 6 months before it came to her. As soon as she saw it she was overcome. Long long story but it was full of meaning for her and she said it was one of the most special gifts she’s ever received. And the only reason it came to her is bc my bff moved to FL and downsized.
Me and the guest of honor
I opened her gifts bc a stroke left her immobilized on one side.
Sadly this is the “best” picture of gifts bc my cohost didn’t take any good - or focused - pics.
I found this on amazon. I 100% recommend it if you need a table this size. Maybe not if you have small children bc it is actually a card table. Logan helped me deliver it yesterday and it was absolutely perfect. It’s 32x32. It says solid wood, although it’s not all one piece. It’s sturdy, doesn’t wobble and it’s beautiful. Best of all, she uses a power chair (electric wheelchair) and she can just roll right up and it fits perfectly. She said she hasn’t had a table in 7 years (this is how long she’s been in assisted living), she only ate with a plate on her lap.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00OYJCM0O?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
The housewarming was so much fun! She was so glad to receive anything people wanted to donate but I knew she needed things that were are beautiful and hers instead of someone’s castoffs. We had about 20 people, some she knew and some she didn’t but everyone wanted to celebrate her. I gave a welcome speech and her friends kept interrupting, shouting out “answers” to questions I wasn’t asking. 😂 I said this is not the participation part of the program! 😁 (I’m actually her newest friend so far, we met on church fb page last summer and didn’t meet in person til November.)
I think this is the first time she’s been able to BE with people in this manner bc assisted living kept getting locked down. So there was just so much excitement. My welcome was focused on celebrating her and the good things God has brought her to, and about how God will write a beautiful story with your life when you give him the pen.
Here are a few pics from the party.
I made this with my cricut. Very few of us would want this phrase after the past few years, but for someone who has not had a home of her own for 7 years, it was perfect. She cried. You may see each table has a different plant. I wanted her to take them home so her home would be filled with flowers.
Everyone received a “jewel” topped pen. (Surprisingly, It writes very nicely for a novelty pen.)We had them put a note of blessing or encouragement in the blessing jar.
Some of the gifts. This cross! It was like the sisterhood of the traveling cross, it passed back and forth multiple times between me and my 2 BFFs over the last 6 months before it came to her. As soon as she saw it she was overcome. Long long story but it was full of meaning for her and she said it was one of the most special gifts she’s ever received. And the only reason it came to her is bc my bff moved to FL and downsized.
Me and the guest of honor
I opened her gifts bc a stroke left her immobilized on one side.
Sadly this is the “best” picture of gifts bc my cohost didn’t take any good - or focused - pics.
