Ava's Tea Party

Yesterday we had our tea party for Ava, to celebrate the life of Ava Rosemeyer.

"Ava's tea party is about taking time. Making time. Moments put aside to love and laugh with those you adore."


Last year we had a larger gathering of friends and little girls to celebrate, this year it was 'just us'.
Scarlet, Jasper and I spent some afternoons last week planning the tea party, and making decorations. We decorated drinking glasses and straws, we made some fancy umbrellas for our pink milk. We colored paper doilies, and made place cards.
We baked cupcakes, made jelly, and I made my first batch of scones. Scarlet made fairy bread, and discovered fresh strawberries and cream.

We even had some guests from Canada arrive just in time (Thank you Michelle!!)

After some pink milk, and a cupcake or two, Scarlet just wanted to dance. It may have been the sugar content of the party?!? But she went a little crazy....and made it impossible to take pictures :) hmm, not that unusual for her to be too 'busy' for photo's!!

It was a lovely sunny afternoon, while Jasper slept thru the whole thing :( , the wind had fun blowing our decorations in all directions, and my camera was not co-operating with me (yes! I'll blame the camera) It didn't matter. We were together, eating cupcakes!
Thank you, so much, Sheye, for letting us be part of your tea party.
m.xx

They can't take that away from me.....

I've been a little slow in blogging...but a couple of weeks ago we had the pleasure of seeing two wonderful people get married. Scarlet was flower girl, and as soon as the ceremony was over she raced upstairs to change her shoes. She wore red ballet flats down the aisle, but ruby slippers were much more appropriate for dancing up a storm. She was the life of the party...


I have a love/hate 'thing' for weddings. David and I eloped, for a few reasons, but mainly because the idea of the white dress/ALL that attention for ME just was....scary. I do LOVE going to other peoples weddings, and I would love to plan a wedding, but I don't for a second regret not having one. Matt & Laurens wedding was just beautiful. Amazingly pretty and elegant, but so fun and relaxed. So fun, that I really didn't manage to get a good shot. Of the bride and groom.....or anything else. I was really disappointed the next day when I went thru all the pics that I took, for some reason I just wasn't in the 'taking photos' mode. I was in the 'drinking ridiculous amounts of champagne' mode.

Here are a couple of shots, that I think are kinda cute.

I tried to get David to wear a bow tie.....but he refused. This gentleman, in my opinion, was the best dressed on the night!!!!


This was totally accidental, but its one of my favorites!

Matt and Lauren were also incredibly sweet, and they played mine and Davids 'songs', yes, we have 2. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong- "They can't take that away from me" I tear up every time I hear it. They also played The Cure 'Love Song' which is the song David and I walked down the aisle to, or rather, walked down the rainforest walking track to :)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU6wkCxDHCk



and lastly.....my hair piece.... I love it!!!

m.xx

the post party come down....

The big day has been and gone.... Scarlet and Jasper had a great time. 18 crazy kids- and we didn't even give them THAT much sugar!!
Here are just some of the details...

Scarlet was, of course, Alice. Lost in Wonderland!

Jasper was the White Rabbit, although he pulled his tail off in a matter of seconds....and I don't have a pic of him with a clean face! Such a grot!!!

maybe HE should have been the Mad Hatter?

David was the Mad Hatter, and I was the Queen of Hearts

So much fun, when everyone dresses up.....

The kids made their own top hats to take home. glue, feathers and 5yr olds? Not a great idea.....still peeling feathers off the floor and table :)

We had colorful/mis-matched food, The Hatter isn't big on co-ordinated tea parties :)

I also found some cheap plain white teapots, cups and plates. I drew 'Alice' images on them, I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.

The White Rabbit Plate

Hatters' Tea Party Jug

Laugh until you faint Potion

Alice with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

The Dormouse hiding in the teapot :)

We also scattered the table with pretty glasses and jugs

And EVERYTHING had tags 'drink me' 'eat me' 'sit on me' (chairs) 'smell me' (roses, some fresh, some made of tissue paper)

I then made up treat bags, with tiny 'drink me' bottles attached. The big kids got little boxes with images from the book drawn on them, filled with chocolates

I have so much fun arranging a party, I probably enjoy it more than the actual 'party' Is that a bad thing? But now I find myself with....not much to do. Well, I have a lot to do, but no creative projects on the go.....time to clear the desk and go thru my cupboard I guess- lots of incomplete projects in there.

And now for next year.....

m.x