Periwinkle Dinner

The same week of Breast Cancer Awareness on Tuesday, I attended a meeting for Wallis’ group The Periwinkle Club. They meet the third Tuesday of every month at their new headquarters. There were about twenty members present. As well as discuss various events coming up like a Fundraiser dinner and a presentation of hampers to cancer patients plus getting the Club officially recognized, AVON representatives came in for makeovers for select members and gave everyone a free gift back. I am now melony fresh!

Maria and I have decided that our official titles for the Periwinkle Club, though we are new members, are the Public Relations – Social Events Managers which we have shortened to Public-Social Managers or PSM. The Periwinkle Club held an Anniversary Dinner and Fashion Show as a fundraiser on Saturday night. We were busy last week running errands to pick up material and flowers for decorations, and picking up tickets and money here and there. We decorated 30 glass globes for the centerpieces by painting them with the periwinkle flower logo. I helped Wallis create a Powerpoint presentation as a reflection on the club’s first year and another for the dutch auction with the items. I spent all of Saturday at the Georgetown Club decorating for the evening’s events, hanging pink and white netting, and setting up tables. I got ready in half an hour wearing my black cotton dress and polka dot shoes. The whole event was a success. Everyone had a great time. And yes, of course the food. Appetizers were vegetables pastries and cheese with pineapple. The meal was buffet with baked fish in lemon sauce, chicken with stuffing, rice, a soya bean and sweet potato bake, cooked veggies and a tossed salad. Dessert was lemon meringue pie and fruit trifle – but I didn’t get any! I tried passionfruit juice for the first time. I was the slide changer for the Powerpoint presentations. A dutch auction is an interesting concept. Bids work the same way, but when you increase the bid, you pay that amount. Say the bid is at G$5000, if you increase it to G$6000, you pay G$1000 right away. The auction raised G$172 000. The items were beautiful, three of which were done by local artisans. The whole event was done by 11pm and we finished the evening dancing as we cleaned up.