Supper Club

This weekend was our first Supper Club party! Every two months a group of us will meet at a different person’s house for dinner. The host will prepare the main course and the guests will bring a side or appetizer, and the beverage of their choice. Saturday night Peter made beef burgundy and chicken dinner crepes followed by a build your own dessert crepe station. I forgot to take pictures when people were there, but I did take a few before anyone showed up.

We’ve officially decided that even though the couch isn’t centered in the living room, we’re going to keep the set-up. Now we need to revisit what to do with out dining area. It looks so weird and bare without the hutch.

There are a few things that we did for this dinner party that made it run sooooo much more smoothly than the ones that we’ve had in the past.

1. Peter did most of the cooking before the guests arrived so that he wasn’t trapped in the kitchen all night.

2. We put out a huge pitcher of cucumber and lemon water so that we weren’t constantly filling and re-filling the Brita.

3. We set out about 30 Ikea glasses instead of using proper glassware. This meant that no one was asking us where they could find whatever type of glass all night and clean up was SUPER easy because we didn’t have to hand wash a ton of wine glasses.

They may seem like really small things, but those small changes really freed up a lot of time for  mingling with our friends. Part of me thinks that we should have special flavored water out all the time.

Thanks to everyone who participated!!

Mixing Things Up

We’re rearranging the living room because we are having nine guests over for dinner this weekend. That may be normal for some of y’all, but finding room for eleven is a bit tough for our space. With the current set-up, our dining area was just way too crowded. Due to a limited amount of time, I opted to clean up the living room and to focus on the dining area later this week.  Here’s the change.

At first I hated it. I thought it looked really dumb, but didn’t have the energy to move all of that furniture back. Now, it’s actually growing on me. Peter and I ate dinner on the couch (like we do every night) and it was nice not be staring at the TV. I like that we’ll be able to put the appetizers on the hutch and that guests will be able to move into the dining area as the night progresses. Here’s a less pretty, but fuller photo so that you can soak in everything that’s going on.

And here’s a photo of the usual set-up, so that you can compare.

This temporary way doesn’t allow the couch to be centered with the window, which is driving me a little bonkers, but it’s a fun switch for now.