I'm Late, I'm Late, I'm Late!

As I mentioned in my last post, DD14 had an Alice in Wonderland Tea Party theme for her 14th birthday party. It was a load of fun scouring the local shops for things that would fit the theme and thinking up relevant craft items too (taking into account the limited time I had available to make things!).

Here are some photos of the party:

The caterpillar end of the table. Lots of tea pots with different types of tea in them, including Peach Iced Tea, and one of soft drink.

I found a cat toy perfect to be the dormouse poking out of a tea pot.

Mismatched cups and saucers of course, scoured from Vinnies etc as well as some from our own collections. The table was decorated with cards, keys and locks and fob watches.

The plate of cupcakes, decorated by DD14 and her friends, some with ganache and fondant icing, some with buttercream icing. Of course there were plenty of Eat Me and Drink Me labels.

I found a dog toy that looked a lot like the dodo from the Disney movie version. My SIL hung it up by its neck so there were plenty of jokes about "dead as a dodo" and it being extinct after all! You'll see the giant playing card banner in the background.

Even the candles fitted the theme!

Here are the girls in their costumes. Left to right Mad Hatter, White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat, Alice (DD), Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, Ace of Hearts (who even brought her paint brush to paint the roses red!) and Mary (Alice's sister). I was so thrilled they all got into the spirit of it and came up with such great outfits.

I made a couple of craft items for the goodie bags - a flower pop and a teapot bookmark:

And of course a White Rabbit worrying about being late for the party ...

A wonderland time was had by all. Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers
Kez