Today I hosted another Tea Party, this one being much more successful than the last (where everyone canceled and it was my mum and I eating all the finger food by ourselves haha! disaster). 11 gorgeous girls came over (including school friends, work friends, mums and my 90 year old Nandy) to play ladies, and we ate and drank and laughed for a good few hours.

Tea Cups supplied by my mum, napkin rings made by moi, expensive paper doily looking elegant on the table

Teapot supplied by my Nandy

I really like entertaining, and the best part is planning and decorating (I think I was born to plan parties, I always have much more fun in the planning stages than in the actual party! Having everyone around today was fabulous though. For my “high tea” party today, I borrowed teapots and fancy teacups and saucers from my mum and Nandy (I don’t own any “fancy” ones, I just have lots of mugs). I bought some pink fragrant flowers, and some el cheapo paper doilies (I also don’t own anything “frilly”). I made a very rough and ready bunting from pink and purple paper triangles stapled to white ribbon, and made some pretty napkin rings from craft paper. I also made cute little paper flags on toothpicks to put through the sandwiches. I also made some pretty labels for each tea.

Tea Labels, kindly labelled by Miri's hand

I baked fresh scones with jam and whipped cream, mini quiches (very proud of these, they were delish even though I had no idea what I was doing… hard to muck up a quiche though!), creme cheese & cucumber sandwiches, and mini cupcakes. My mum brought over a tuna slice and Chloé made a zucchini slice (a fair effort after a late night out, thanks Clo!). We had 6 different types of tea, and fruit juice. I also bought these conversation starters from kikki.k, but who was I kidding, we didn’t need them. 12 ladies in one room needing conversation starters? I think not, you couldn’t shut us up if you tried. I think they’ll come in handy in the future though, and they’re cute.

Freshly baked scones with jam and whipped cream

Mini Cupcakes with butterflies

Miri came over a bit early and helped set up by folding these fabulous napkin origami flowers for the glasses:

Origami Napkin Flowers

When I was putting a few of the pretty things together last night (and proudly holding them up to JA after I finished each one saying “See? Pretty!” while he rolled his eyes) I liked the idea that for an afternoon I’d be transforming a little corner of my home into this pretty, English, floral, frilly space, just for fun, to “Play Ladies” (as my Nandy would put it). And I liked that I could indulge in the “frill” for this occasion, but be able to put it all back away again afterward and go back to my nice, neutral, rustic/modern interior that is way less pink.

It was fun to play ladies for an afternoon though, especially with good friends and yummy food =) And we raised $90 for the Cancer Council, woot!

Table set up for the tea party

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