I got suckered into throwing a Tea Party. Well, I shouldn’t say suckered…I agreed to do it…because a woman who I regard as my second mother asked me if I would do it. Sigh. Guilt is a nasty thing.
So, then I find out that my daughter is singing at the Tea Party. Whhaaaa-aaaat? My 13-year-old is doing what? Seems, one of my dearest friend’s friend, asked my daughter if she would sing. Well, she also happened to ask that question at a basketball game…and introduced herself as a member of our dearest friend’s church. My daughter thinking she was asking if she was singing at their church said, yes, I am singing…which she is. So I get a phone call from my dearest friend stating that my daughter is singing. I am sure you could hear the question marks My daughter knows better than to agree to a singing engagement unless she has passed it by me first. Ahhh, the game of “Who’s on First?” ensues. We get to the bottom of it and find out that my daughter could not hear the woman and agreed that she was singing, not that she would sing. Bwahahahaha!
So, then…as I am talking with my daughter about this tea party…and her being the MAD for MAD Hatter freak that she is (She is reading this over my shoulder as I type…and is laughing) SHE (she wants credit for the idea) comes up with the idea (See…I can give her credit for it) to do a Mad Tea Party a la Alice in Underland. (Gentle Reader, it is no longer, nor will it ever be Alice in Wonderland ever since Tim Burton remade Alice a few years ago.)
How does one start planning on a Mad Hatter Tea Party? Well…one goes to google “Alice in Wonderland Tea Party Images” and voila! (Or VIOLA!!, as my daughter thought it was for years) You can find a wealth of information on that very subject. Thank you, Google.
I have to admit, I am a bit excited about the prospect of putting this tea together now. Everything is required to be mismatched…which is excellent, since I don’t have a tea set to save my life. But I DO know a lot of people who have tea sets…so I can borrow theirs and be done with it. I already have in mind a table center piece. My wildly talented 13-year-old (She’s still reading over my shoulder, gentle reader.) made a Mad Hatter costume for Halloween. She created a hat out of cardboard, covered it with fabric and made it look amazing. (She’s trying to tell me in full detail exactly what she did, but as you can see or read…I left all that out. She’s not impressed with me right now.) That hat will be our center piece. I have a silver tea set that I will use to put favors or candies in…and then we will have glass bottles, cakes, cookies and all sorts of frippery (frippery is such a fun word to use and I don’t use it often enough) to create a table.
I will take photos of when it is done. And may or may not post them…depending on how successful it is. Wish me luck! (My daughter says Luck is for amateurs…sigh. She is dramatic at times.)
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