2010 April - Mae-Ling's birthday - Shanghai
To my (exactly!) 40 girlfriends who braved the rain to join me
at Glamour Bar:
I’m finally FORTY and Feeling Fabulous
Chi paos, Spring dresses, and LAUGHTER were all marvelous
What I enjoyed most was CONNECTING all of you
Thank you again for making my DREAM party come true
FORTY PRECIOUS MEMORIES – Please help complete
1) Sweet Ever After’s giant chocolate cupcake + mini pink cupcakes – thanks
Song, it was delicious as always
2) Being surprised everytime someone walked in wearing a
gorgeous chi pao or Spring dress
3) Trying not to be surprised when someone wasn’t wearing the
requested attire - just kidding, I know it was raining, and I’m so happy you
came
4) Hearing how ladies couldn’t decide which earrings to select:
Pearl, Champagne, Pink, Ebony, or Purple – thanks Steph for designing these
earrings just for my tea party
5) Karen and Melanie changing hair colors – fun, fun
6) All the creativity flowing with scrapbooking at the bar
7) Seeing ladies nibble on scones and tea sandwiches
8) the beautiful floral China tea cups
9) the feeling of old Shanghai – view of the Bund and rainy
afternoon - just needed the sound of the mah jong tiles
10) An unexpected emotional moment during my welcome speech – I
was touched to be surrounded by all of you
11) All the cheers when I announced the “Fabulous 40 Club”
during the game -
12) Finding out one table ordered a bottle of wine with their
rmb40 collection (or was it they wanted to get more change to gain points?)
13) Impressed how the Mah Jong table team combined bits and
pieces of information to come up with the “Ice Castles” movie guess – looking
back, they did deserve 10+ points for getting that answer
14) The wonderful black and silver bling rings designed by
Stephanie and given to the winning “40 Bingo” team – congrats
15) Cynthia’s thoughtful and kind words after the game – at one
point, I was thinking, “hope this doesn’t become a roast because I’m too young
for that”
16) Lisa and Candy coming straight from the airport – true
friends
17) A successful FUNdraiser and great prizes – see below
18) An opportunity to take a chi pao ladies picture
Speaking of pictures….sadly, my pictures did not turn out due to the fact my
amateur college student photographer was not quite experienced using her camera.
Looking on the bright side, the scrapbook pages created by you and this list of
precious memories are sufficient treasures for me.
If you have a “precious memory” or anecdote to share from the party (especially
something I didn’t see or hear – love those stories!), please let me know and
help me complete my FORTY PRECIOUS MEMORIES list. Thanks in advance.
FUNDRAISING RESULTS
I am happy to announce rmb6050 was raised through all your raffle ticket sales
and one silent auction bid.
THANK YOU x 40 for contributing to the FUNdraiser and for helping to achieve my
birthday wish of raising money for a community organization.
The organization I chose to benefit is:
MORNING TEARS
recommended by Julianne Huh and Sarah Kim
www.morningtears.com
Morning Tears rebuilds the world for children who have suffered or are suffering
heavy emotional pain.
Morning Tears focuses particularly on:
• children whose parents are in prison
• children whose parents have been sentenced to death
• children who have been abused or neglected
• orphans
• children who haven´t been registered at birth, and thus have no rights
• street children
Last Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to meet, Koen Sevenants, the founder of
Morning Tears, and I also had the opportunity to personally give him the
donation money.
The money will specifically and appropriately be used for the Morning Tears
“Birthday Program”. Koen explained that Morning Tears believes it is very
important that each child’s birthday is celebrated and that having their own
special day helps the children develop their individual selves. Every time they
have a birthday party, the birthday children look forward to having cake and
blowing out their birthday candles. Almost all the children have thought for a
long time about the wishes they want to make on their birthdays.
I also want to note the other organizations which were under consideration to
benefit from the donation money. Thank you for your suggestions. I wish all the
organizations could’ve benefitted as they all have passionate supporters:
JUCCCE recommended by Peggy Liu - www.juccce.com
Rethink Energy and Reshape the World
Max Foundation recommended by ?
Helping to fund education for children in poverty areas
Qifang recommended by Angie Wu - www.qifang.cn
Giving Every Student a Way To Pay For Their Education
Shanghai Sunrise recommended by Candy Lopez - www.shanghaisunrise.com
Sponsoring Education for a Brighter Future
THANK YOU PRIZE SPONSORS
Special thanks to the following people and businesses who donated prizes for the
FUNdraiser. We are lucky to have a community of wonderful women entrepreneurs
who have products and services we all love. And, congratulations to all the
winners.
Amelia’s
donated Homemade Strawberry Jam and Mango Chutney
Winner – Julianne
Diva Life
donated Mani/Pedi Spa Party (w/ Chocolates) for 4 at German Centre
Yvonne Lo
bookings@mydivalife.com
www.mydivalife.com
Winner - Emy
Karen
donated Gift Certificate and Girl’s Shirt with Pink Heart
No. 5, 248 TaiKang Lu
Winner – Shirley
Lollipop
donated Pink Tutu and Monkey Blanket
info@shanghailollipop.com
www.shanghailollipop.com
3211 Hongmei Road, Suite 606
Winner – Tina
Stephanie
donated Midnight Ring and Necklace
Silent Auction Winner – Sarah
Sweet Ever After
donated Gift Certificate for One Dozen Cupcakes + Single Cupcake
Song
contact@sweeteverafter.co m
www.sweeteverafter.com
Winner – Lorraine
Shanghai Toy Club
donated Waffle Blanket in Red
Cristina
info@shanghaitoyclub.com. cn
www.shanghaitoyclub.net
Winner – Amy
