Librarian Brunch

 

Librarian Brunch

April is the month to celebrate libraries, and last week was National Library Week - so I thought it would be fun to host the retired school librarians that I had the pleasure of working with for a Library Brunch.  And, since we are close to Easter I decided to mix the two themes together - and it was such fun!

There are six retired school librarians in the group - and only one could not make it.  Anybody else noticing how difficult it is to plan an event or get together with friends?  Everyone is SO busy - but people moved schedules around and we were glad to get together and catch up on each other's lives.

We started with mimosas and sparkling water!

John left us to catch up...and coincidentally returned my library books and then went bowling at the Clubhouse.

I used my white wedding china - vintage 1977 - with silver chargers.  Water glasses were a wedding gift engraved with J and A

Spring color napkins from Kohls several years ago, and the bunny napkin rings are new - found them the day before the brunch on sale and had to have them!

Simple centerpiece with silk tulips in terracotta post...

Love the little bunnies!

I did not take a photo of the brunch food...my usual overnight French Toast, quiche from Costco, fruit salad, bacon and sausage...and I set up this little dessert section for after our meal to enjoy with coffee...

Apricot White Chocolate scones - you can find the recipe here - 

Scones

and bought the egg shaped cookies from Wegmans.  They were so good.  Always like to to have seasonal colored M&Ms, too.

A coffee and tea set up over in the corner of the kitchen...hot coffee ready to go!

Since it was National Library Week I made some "take home and read" favors...Easter treat bags, scones, some tea, and bookmarks with great sayings on I purchased from Amazon. 

 You can find them here - 

Bookmarks

I tied the bookmarks with the cute little book on the outside of the bags with yellow ribbon...

put them in a basket...

and had them by the front door to give as everyone left.

It was a great day!  

Now looking ahead to Easter...thinking I will take all my Easter decorations down and put them away now - because later this week we have our Annual Cleaning.  This is a great perk of living here in Willow Valley.  Once a year a team of workers come and clean our apartment top to bottom...everything - even our screen patio.  We move everything off of the tables and counter top so that the cleaning can be complete.  First year we had this done we thought "how good can it be...we clean", but WOW - it is a thorough cleaning and so nice that our date falls in the Spring for Spring cleaning! So, I will pack up Easter and get out some early summer/May things our when the cleaning is completed.

Are you hosting Easter this year ?  We are invited to our next door neighbor for Easter dinner.  I am going to make a recipe for dessert that I have not made in years!  Stay tuned...I will post about it soon.  And I will be back to finish up our Viking adventure...Poland!

Please leave a comment below and let me know what you are making/taking/doing for Easter.

Wishing everyone a Happy Passover and Blessed Easter!

Thanks for stopping by Our New Vista!