A very important date! :)

Let's just say it was an insane first month of the year. Lots of showers. Wedding showers, baby showers ... you name it! Good times! :)


Set up the table. The greenery seemed a little bit mad ... and because it was a "Mad Hatter's" themed party, it seemed appropriate.


Since this was a tea party, a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, at that, I went with a sewing theme. Thread, buttons, thimbles. All that sort of stuff.

For the decor, I just raided the basement. Grandma's sewing stuff fit the bill!


This is one of mom's tea pots. More for decor than anything else. Added some ribbon for a little excitement.


More details.


All sorts of buttons. :)


Thread. Cute.


Mom made cucumber sandwiches. They were small + cute.


I took over the kitchen for baking. I had 2 assistants. We made Cream Puffs, Cherry Bombs (above), and another little pastry.


Susie + Jackie were my baking assistants. :) This was during the gift-giving portion. With this group there are bound to be big, fat laughs.


Some lace gloves on the guest of honor.


Our group; :)


Little Theodore even made a guest appearance. With a Davy Crockett-like hat.

Social Tea :)

I posted the details of our fun, social tea HERE ... and now for the social aspect.


We had a perfect turnout! And of course, fun hats were a must for tea-party attendees, big and small!


And finger sandwiches, too.


Seriously. Does it get ANY cuter than this!?!??!?!? :)


Mom made friends with Miss Susie's mom during Kristine's wedding. And it was awesome that she came to our social party. :)


I've never seen G be so shy before.


Snuggly.


Susie's sister-in-law, Katerina, shows her daughter how the tea ball works.


And tons of laughter, of course! :)

It's all in the details — Ladies' formal tea

Over Memorial Day weekend, we had a ladies' tea at my mom's house. I refrain from calling it a "tea party" so as not to be confused with the political movement going on right now. Although I cannot say if the movement reflects the view of those present, because as proper ladies at a formal tea, we talked about other pleasant things, not politics. ;)


Mom had this table runner, and I pulled it all together. :)


Let's talk about these roses. Beautiful, aren't they?


I picked them from the front flower bed. Decor does not have to be an expensive endeavor!


But let me say this: they were THORNY boogers!!!! I can't for sure say blood was shed over them, but it came close.


Those thorns were NASTY. But the flowers were SO beautiful .... I was willing to wrangle a few thorns.


Let's talk about the setup. In times past (around Christmas), we'd just set the boxes out ... but I figured we could do better.


So I rummaged around in the cabinets and found some pretty goblets.


WIth some tea in packages and some not, I was trying to figure out what to do ...






So I tried printing out pieces of nice paper with the name of the tea on it.


I think it turned out pretty good. Someone even asked if I had hand-written them. :)


There was also loose tea, which I put into deeper goblets.


With cute little spoons.


And labels.


Isn't this spoon handle cute?


Last little detail.

More photos later of the party itself. :)