Surprise Birthday In the Garden

Today's tablescape is a surprise birthday party

for

Jann Olson.  

It is so fun when a true surprise happens!!

Some of you know her from

Have A Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson

Some of you may know that Jann has had 

a rough couple of years with breast cancer 

and now brain cancer, so we wanted to spoil 

her tonight.  

The table was set in our favorite summer spot 

for our crafting group in Joanne's barn turned 

into gazebo.  But alas, we also found out that 

the barn was coming down, so it was our farewell 

dinner here.  

You have seen before how Joanne fills 

the old open-air gazebo with all kinds 

of beauties.

We always have such a grand time and hate to leave.

It truly has become an outdoor room, so when 

it slipped out that it was being torn down we 

all went into mourning.  (A few days later it also 

slipped out that they have plans for something new there,

so we can't wait to see what her husband will create.) 

Hooray!

Joanne loves to find thrift store plates to 

create her tablescapes.

And she is the one who taught us how to create 

beautiful mannequins.

We all take food assignments to create our dinners. 

Amy @-thebakeaholic made the cake.

Becky, our newest member created this gorgeous 

doll that looks like Jann with each of our names 

embroidered around her skirt.  

Karen filled the table with flowers.

I made chicken for our fajitas.  

When everyone helps, it creates a 

great party.

Natalie provided gift bags from a local store called 

Busy Biddy.

Besides surprising Jann with a beautiful doll, cake, and dinner, 

we were all surprised with Nashville's singing storyteller, 

Kate Campbell, who gave us a private concert.  She is a 

southern charmer and had us all so entertained as she told 

the backstories of some of her songs.  

Check out her music.  You can find 

her @katemuses on Instagram.

Jann took off soon after to celebrate her birthday 

with her husband by going on a river cruise.  

We can't wait to hear about that!

It was sad to celebrate our last dinner here, 

but we all know Joanne's husband is so talented, 

and Joanne loves entertaining in this space, that 

we have something wonderful to look forward to.

If you are like me, you are running so hard to 

just have as much fun as you can, that it is hard 

to do any blogging and any visiting, so I truly 

appreciate you stopping by!  It will disappear 

before we know, and here in Utah, it only arrived

the last couple of weeks - alas!  

I will be posting this with

Tablescapes Thursday