Once Upon a Wedding by KATHLEEN EAGLE

Author:KATHLEEN EAGLE
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061751196
Publisher: HarperCollins

Chapter 11

“I’m going to make you earn your lunch today,” Camille warned her friends. She ushered them into the dining room, where the table was set up for what Rosemary had lately termed “the craft of the week.” A pile of little twig nests from the craft store was the centerpiece. “We’re going to make favors.”

“Make favors?” As though checking for bird droppings, Bridget chose one little nest for close, squinty-faced inspection. “Or make-do favors?”

“Not ‘make-do’ favors. These are going to be fabulous favors. Sit,” Camille ordered on her way to the kitchen. She returned with a pot of tea and began pouring it into the cups she’d already arranged. “When you do it yourself, you give of yourself. It’s a personal touch.”

“She’s become a Martha Stewart disciple,” Ellie told Bridget across the table.

Bridget was checking out the rolls of satin ribbon and the plastic bag stuffed with iridescent shred. “Aren’t you afraid this is all going to look sort of homemade?”

“That’s exactly what I’m hoping for.” Camille took her seat at the head of the table. “I call it ‘personalized.’”

“What kind of tea is this?” Ellie asked between sips. “We should be drinking green tea. They’ve discovered that green tea gives us some percentage less chance of something. I don’t remember now whether it has to do with menopause or cancer. Or bone loss. Something really bad.”

“Turning into a witch,” Camille suggested as she handed out the scissors to go with the rolls of purple and lavender ribbon. “Green tea keeps you from turning into a witch. Prevents the warts, the stoop-over, and the raging crabbies.”

“How about the green skin?”

“As long as you add milk, you’re all right. All we’re doing is decorating these to hold the traditional candied almonds. Jordan’s almonds, as it were. Make sure you use the piece of ribbon I gave you as a guide for length on those.”

“Yes, teacher,” said Ellie.

“Well, I determined the amount of ribbon for this project by the number of pieces we’re making, and I’m not going back to the craft shop again until next week.” Camille sighed. “If I don’t get some real work done this week, it really will be ‘yes teacher.’”

“The truth is, she doesn’t want to go back to the craft store until another coupon comes out in the Sunday paper,” said Bridget.

“What’s wrong with that? Saving money is not a bad thing, my friend. You wait and see how all this comes out before you turn your nose up at my personal touches.”

Bridget glanced askance as she snipped off a piece of ribbon. “I see that somebody finally did some personal touching up on that back door that’s been broken forever.”

“What are you talking about? My trick door?”

“I noticed that, too,” said Ellie, who had already devised a method of measuring and cutting a whole roll of ribbon in two snips. “All I had to do was turn the knob. No pulling up on the knob, twist, jiggle, whistle the ‘Minnesota Rouser’ while you’re standing on one foot and pushing in.

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