Mad Hatters Tea Party

Today we celebrated K's recent birthday with a mad hatters teas party. It was loads of fun! The family spent the morning in preparation for the party. The lawn was mowed, balloons blown up, streamers hung and yummy eats made.

We stuck signs all over saying, "this way", "that way", "up" and "down". Playing cards and paper lanterns and butterflies and flowers decorated the tables and we had "Alice" peeping out of a small castle.

The guests arrived and all wore hats. I loved seeing the creativity that was put into their hats! I wish I had a photo of each and every guest in their hat!

The tiniest hat!

The children played the chocolate game and had relays where they had to hop saying, "I'm late, I'm late for a very important date!" , run with a teacup and saucer filled with water and colour roses red. Amongst other games they played musical bumps and a game where they had to find a miniature teapot inside an upside down cup. Each person had a turn to pick up a cup and then could shuffle the cups to confuse the next player....

One of my precious God daughters.


Another precious God daughter (she made this gorgeous hat!)

Another of the guests with a great hat!

The guests ate ham and egg mayo sandwiches, scones with jam and cream and strawberries dipped in chocolate.

"Tea" was served in tea cups and it was fun to watch the faces as the children saw the red soda coming out of the teapots!

My dear friend T had offered to make the birthday cake and cupcakes. She did a sterling job and K was thrilled! She is a talented lady and she spent many hours making these beautiful creations that made the day!

Saving the best for last.........have you ever seen such an amazing Cheshire cat cake!!!! It was delicious too!