Relief Society - Service Auction

Service Auction 

When your church calling incorporates organizing activities, it can sometimes be a tad overwhelming.

Also, rewarding.

This past Friday I organized our Relief Society's Activity.

Service Auction.

The whole evening focused on us ladies in the church, offering our time, talents and acts of service to each other.

I didn't take pictures during the activity as I was the MC/Auctioneer.

But here is a rundown of what I did.

Make Auction Paddles - These were the personal invitations for each sister.

A master winner's copy of what everyone won.

Questionnaire

Tickets for the point amount each sister tallied from the questionnaire

The cellophane gifts were from me. 

On the table above, I did a movie theme: a popcorn bucket, a box of popcorn, boxes of candy, and a bottle of ginger beer.

The one next to it was Jane Austen's theme: Pride & Predicjuce book, Jane Austen theme bookmarks, a mug that says, 'Go to Pemberly they said, he won't be home they said. Box of herbal tea and of course, chocolate.

The farthest ones were a spa-filled basket, an array of boxed candy, and my homemade body sugar scrub.

Carys, my daughter kindly offered her squishmallows and some stuffed toys that we laundered and wrapped in cellophane too.

I also had some fabric-made banners, pink heart wall decor, and a heart hanging decor for a girl's room

I felt that we wouldn't have enough in-person items as we had quite a few after the evening acts of service that sisters choose to do eg: babysitting, gardening, walking, sewing class, and art class.

I also got a couple of fast food gift cards and wood burned a heart with the Welsh word Cyfeillgarwch - which means Friendship.

Overall the sister brought along some wonderful things to auction too: Freshly baked bread and homemade jam, banana bread, fresh produce from a garden, and freshly picked apples with 3 recipes to go with them. Soda and chocolate, Toys, Pasta maker, Pizza maker.

We provided a simple table of treats for refreshment

Being part of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints is wonderful and as Relief Society sisters we get many opportunities to serve one another and those in our charge and in our neighborhoods. 

It's all about being kind, caring, and giving, just Like Jesus Christ did.

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New Floor.

 

As promised, our new flooring. It wasn't an easy job and I was glad we hired Luis to help us. While Luis tore up the old floor, I carried it out to the dumpster. Needless to say - WHAT A WORKOUT.  It took a couple of days to tear out and then a good week to finish the floor. Luis did move our half-bath, toilet, and sink placement too, so that entered into the time frame. But overall.....the floor is stunning and works so well with the color of the stairs, I did. Luis also laid the peel-and-stick tiles in our mudroom/laundry.

I will say this though - I am totally wiped out about doing any DIY for a while lol

The floor color before - and this was the after removing the old kitchen cabinets lol

Midway point.

We choose 

BRISTOL HAND-SCRAPED HARDWOOD FLOORING

FLOOR AND DECOR

I can honestly say, I love it. 

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Relief Society 'T'Party 2023- Damascus Ward

Heard the saying, 'Come full circle.'

It can refer to interior design and fashion. Yes, fashion for me in the 80's and mom jeans! All back in fashion eek lol But, how about activities?

The last time I did this activity for my church was back when we lived in WI. 8 years and 6 days later, I organized the same theme for our RS birthday social again. This social is a yearly event in which we celebrate and commemorate the Relief Society's 181st anniversary on March 17, 2023.

This time round though, I had a little more $$ of my own to spend on it - all of which I'll keep for future parties and activities.

Overall the night was wonderful. I do wish more women came but hey-ho can't have it all lol 

Anyways, below are pictures from the evening. It took me about 2 and 1/2 hours to decorate *all by myself* :/ but with music as my company it wasn't so bad. I have to give a shout-out to Quincy Christianson and the guys who kindly got all the tables and chairs after their basketball game the night before. Thank you. :)

I think you'd agree though the wisteria did a good job of hiding the basketball hoop lol

For 1st, 2nd & 3rd prizes I made up some simple * with help from Lindsay Haley - cute little gifts that consisted of donated teacups and saucers from Alice Truscott and myself, cookie cutters in the shapes of teacups and teapots, shortbread biscuits, bookmarks, chocolate and mini clip-on Fascinators and lavender sachets.

Table settings: I picked up the cutest napkins from T-J Maxx which I used for the teacup napkin and the cut-off parts to tie around the plastic ware. The reusable clear teacups I got from Tablecloth factory - I love this online site! I even got the wedding arch drapery fabric & table runners and square sheer overlays and wisteria in cream and pink. I did, however, find more wisteria at my local thrift store Hardwood House! Like what are the chances! Slim. They had bundles of 5 stems of wisteria for $2.50! I bought all of them lol 

                                    Don't you just love the teacup napkin through the handle!

The cookie cutters, disposable teacups and saucers, and the teapot centerpiece from Amazon.

All of the bookmarks I made. I did buy the digital copies from Etsy: Alice in Wonderland #1 & Alice in Wonderland #2 and the wildflower. I did, however, laminate and add bookmark tassels to them.

I did make all the mini teapots and teacups, cupcake toppers, and hanging displays and banners using my Cricut and Laminator. And i made the Army guards from Alice in Wonderland from foam posterboard. I made pin wheels and crepe paper flowers too :)

I had asked some sisters to decorate the table centers and they did a wonderful job- shout out to Amy Taye, Camille Fredrickson, Jessica Davies & Annika Niven :) Thank you, ladies.

The evening went as follows: Welcome everyone, followed by a light dinner that consisted of cucumber, egg, and cress sandwiches, chicken salad croissants, cheese, veggie platters, fresh fruit, hummus, brownies, ice cream,

and treats brought by some of the ladies, 2 Victoria sandwich cakes made by Sarah & Kate Christianson - Yum :) and I made the cupcakes.

We had a musical number by Shuana & Audry Bastion - they sang Peace in Christ.

Sarah Christianson gave us the spiritual thought, titled, 'Making time for the Lord each day.'

And we had the announcement of the best-decorated hat. So, all in all, I think the night was a 'T' party success :) And was worn out afterward lol ESP as we've been doing renovations at home - new flooring :/ which I'll post soon. 

Denny Stewart won 1st prize

Connie Price won 2nd

Heather Hurren won 3rd

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