This last fall, I had the privilege to help host a thank you lunch for the teachers at my daughters' school.

My goal was to not only provide a lovely ambiance without any money on a budget,

but also to help foster an atmosphere of camaraderie and conversation.

Thankful to my neighbor who let me cut some of her beautiful hydrangeas, I also sacrificed an old dictionary's pages for the filler in old blue mason jars

and cut out leaf shapes paired with a burlap runner.

I also used full pages as place mats.  I heard the teachers were using them to see who was the "wordiest wordsmith".  I say mission successful!