Welcome To The Tea Party

For the first inspired idea, I decided to start off with a party to celebrate this fun new blog! I gave my friend an Alice in Wonderland adult tea party for her 35th birthday, and it was so much fun! My daughter asked for one right after her birthday last year, so a kid version of this will be posted after the party is over. So I love to create parties of all kinds. Start to finish. I know a lot of people pour over magazines,watch the t.v. for ideas etc. I don't get magazines, don't watch t.v. and have limited internet, so I imagine and dream up my ideas. I know sometimes others have come up with the idea, but on my end, I like to come up with my own fresh ideas. I love it when others tell me or show me thier fresh ideas, so I will have videos etc. from others as well with their inspiring ideas.

To do this party it is pretty easy. Decide the location first, then go from there. A lot of my decor came from the dollar store. The dollar store can be your best friend.

Queen Redds Dinner

I decided I would hold dinner in my dining room. I photoshopped and printed at Sams Club different characters from the story and placed characters related to Redd in that area. I got the playing cards from The Dollar store to make the centerpiece and the hanging banner. Flowers came from Sams Club. I love to do flower arranging, so I did the flowers myself. Redds Tablecloths came from the Dollar Store as well. I saved Heartbreaker candy from Valentines day for the favors, and had different quotes from the new Disney Alice in Wonderland movie rolled up inside. We read the quote and had to guess who said it. I used other Valenties Day parafanalia to decorate the room. Disney.com had the cute pictures of the new Alice in Wonderland characters you can print out for free. I printed them on cardstock and used them for the favors, flowers, and food.
For dinner we had Hatter bowtie pasta, with Redd sauce, twisted breadsticks, caterpillar green salad with sauted mushrooms, and Queen Redds fake red wine. After dinner, before we went out. I made up Alice in Wonderland Pictionary. I made up different characters etc. from the movie and everyone had fun with that. We played on my kids art easel. It worked great!




Tea Party

I Love Winegars in Roy. They made the cupcakes and eat me cookies. I told them how to make them with all the different colors and styles and they created exactly what I wanted. Plus their pastrys are so yummy.
I found some cute holders for the goodies at Michaels to match the plates and napkins.
I knew I wanted "eat me" cookies, and "drink me" drinks. I found these colorful drinks with no labels which I loved to add pop to the table. I used my Cricket to cut out the tags, and found the Alice in Wonderland font online for free and used that for all the writing. I cut out colorful cardstock for the tops to coordinate with the tags.
I bought 3 pieces of material and colorful ribbon was placed between the colors to create the look of 3 different tables in the tea party room.
I bought the flowering tea on ebay for a very affordable rate.
My grandma gave me a old punch bowl set and I used those for the tea cups, and different tea pots to put the flowering tea in. Since it is supposed to be all crazy, you can go to the D.I. or borrow whatever you need to create this look.
I made the Happy Birthday sign with my Cricket. I used old colorful scrapbook paper and ribbon to attach it and put it all together. I loved how it came out.
The paper lanterns were bought at the dollar store, so were the butterflies and dragonflies. I got the cool flamingo lights at Michaels with a 50% off coupon. They were 5.99.
The darling suckers came from Walmart at only $1 a piece. I saw these later at a high end boutique/pastery shopw for over $2 a piece. I loved the quirky look of them.

I told everyone to come as their favorite Alice in Wonderland character, and it was so much fun to see what everyone came up with.
For a party favor, I bought the Almost Alice soundtrack on Itunes, and made a c.d. for everyone with a photoshopped picture of the Cheshire Cat with a cute quote on front with turquoise tulle to attach it. My friend loves the color turquoise, so I wanted to incorporate it. I played the song Welcome To The Tea Pary as Karie walked outside to the gazebo where I had the Tea Party set up for dessert and to open gifts. Then I played the rest of the album while we were out there. Everybody loved the fun music. While we were out there we had herbal tea, "eat me" cookies, sugar cubes, my famous fruit tarts I created that are Karies favorite thing I make, and her cake was a topsy, turvy cupcake stand with the whimsical cupcakes I created, that Winegars in Roy made for me. I put twisty candles on top which made it perfect. I photoshopped a picture of the Cheshire cat with a saying of "Happy Unbirthday Karie" for her gift bag. She got a kick out of that. It was a magical evening! Happy Unbirthday to all of you! Enjoy!!