To beat the winter blahs I hosted a tea party for my 4 year old daughter in the cold michigan month of Febuary, a great way to lift the spirits and get everyone up thats been cooped up looking
for something fun to do. Our invitation was made with Vellum overlay greeting cards.I first took a picture of my daugther dressed up having tea, printed that with the overlay that read:
Mother/Daughter Tea Party. Come dressed in frills & Lace it's a tea party at Lucy's place. There will snacks and fun things to do- Mommy's dress up too. Please R.S.V.P so we can prepare-
hope to see you there!
In Small print it read NO BOYS ALLOWED.I got alot of compliments on the invitation. We invited all 4 year olds and had a house full of little darlings, everyone was all dressed up for a grand total of 17 little girls!!! I made alot of my candies and cookies ahead of time and froze them until the time of the party. The menu was Angel food cake with fresh strawberries and whip cream just oozing- A decorated princess cake, brownies, cucumber sandwhiches, fresh fruit tray, gold fish, homemade cookies shaped like teacups and also teapots which had each little girls name on it. Kids love to find their own name. Then I made homemade chocolates,using cupcake wrappers- pour about 1/4 way full with melted chocolate, let them cool then add a tea pot also made of chocolate attaching them using melted chocolate. I found all my molds at a local candy store, I also made chocolate teapot suckers for the goodie bags. The girls all decorated their own goodie bag then it was filled with homemade candies, nail polish, play jewerly and stickers. Each mother was given a bottle of nail polish the girls could go to any of the Mothers they chose to have their names polished, next was a visit to the make up artist who applied childrens make up to each. Along with a photo both where each girl and her Mommy was captured on film, for thank yous we went out the pages to scrapbooking along with stickes and the pictures from the party. Before the party my daughter and I made table cloths, one we used rubber stamps and stamped shoes, gloves, teapots and flowers on the others I bought tea pot material and made smaller ones to cover the childrens table. It was a great time we are now planing on next one.
