A bachelor's life

For all of you in blogland I want to give you all a huge hug and a thank you  for all your prayers and hope you all gave me.

I have had quite a few changes in my life this month. I am adapting to the changes that are occurring in my life and one of the greatest worries I had was not being able to do my blog that brings so much joy to my life mainly because I can connect with so many wonderful beautiful people who don't know me but rallied behind me in love and support

while I don't want to bore any one with details, life with a 97 year old bachelor takes alot of adjustment. I have all my belongings in storage and although I can get to them  there is no room here for my stuff here.. when the creativity overtook my depression I tried to make due with what I could find. the man does not own luxuries like material or tablecloths (come on he only has three chairs and they are ORANGE at that)

So I scouted thru his cubbards and came up with this set of butterfly plates and can you believe it he had a cake plate?But the real topper is the gorgeous Camilla plants blooming everywhere

He had this very unique floral vase I used

I made the napkins and shaped them like butterflies to mimic the plates

One of my new adaptations is a part time job as a pastry chef at a restaurant that definitely had God's hand all over it. but the greatest part of this job is I work from home and bring my desserts to them so the first day I made strawberry napoleons as seen in the first picture.

Each place setting has a different colored butterfly on it, but I had to get real creative with a tablecloth he did have a flowered sheet.

While creating and trying to explain tablescaping to a man who hasn't had a table set for 49 years, he got in the mood of this table by telling me he had real nice silver ware down below  in the china cabinet I could use. OK

He didn't even know he had candles in the house

these flowers were stunning and I grabbed a few azaleas that were on their last bloom

One of the biggest hurdles I had to overcome was no internet service or even tv which we finally got worked out. I thank you all for so much powerful love and prayers and advice you have given to me. I want to say thank you my blog family for having my back

As I am typing this my heart and chest just fill up with emotions as I re- 
read the post and look at this butterfly on the mugs and how metaphoric it is about change and all I am going thru like I too am becoming a butterfly and the world is wide open to me.So if you are reading this imagine you are being hugged and loved because that is what I am sending all of you. the power of love  prayer and friendship empowers all of us. thank you my my blogland family .Instead of turmoil and fear I now have a sense of calm and peace for the future.Susie I'm participating in Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps On The Porch. confessions of a plate addict,Join the scoop.and Funky Junk Interiors so stop on by with me