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Tablecloth

We are a tablecloth away from extrodinary dinner parties.

Finally accepting that we will never fit another piece of furniture in our house (that can't fold up Jetsons-style), but not giving up our hope that we could invite our friends over for dinner and not make them awkwardly eat off the coffee table, we compromised on a folding table and chairs. The Target circular in the paper two Sundays ago called to us. Think of a slightly classed-up version of a six-foot chuch basement folding table with metal legs and that's what we got. We went with the budget table since all that needs to sit on that is the food, and splurged on better-than-your-average folding chairs.

The chairs only required two trips to Ikea... on the first trip, we found the perfect chair and then found them to be out of stock, likely permanently. They had them in white, but only two of them, and I was so in love with the Arvinn chair in "antique" that I couldn't see the worth in white. However, Ikea dude did mention that more were arriving the next day in white. Wouldn't you know that two days later (after an exhaustive online search for something equivalent) we were backing up the car share prius to that very same Ikea. Four white chairs later, we're oh-so-close to a meal.

As a result of the wedding loot, we have fabulous white china, two kinds of real fabric napkins, great flatware, and fancy stemware. So, really, we just need a tablecloth. Shouldn't be that hard, right? J says, "can't you sew one?" Well, not if we want one this year. The ones at Ikea were crap. The ones at Williams Sonoma are freaking expensive for something that we're inevitably going to spill food and wine on.

I know, I've already spent too much time obsessing... but I'm sure the right tablecloth is out there. I will find it.

Oh, and if you know our apartment, you're probably wondering where we're going to keep a six-foot folding table and four folding chairs. Yeah, we are too.

posted by marthadotcom @ 1:10 PM