Royal Afternoon Tea ~ { Menu }

Our annual mother ~ daughter tea party was

Fit for a Queen!

Our place settings included big gold napkin bows wrapped around our plates for a dramatic, elegant look. I also included a floral hankie napkin on the side as a soft alternative which had our programs tucked in the fold. I used extra large paper clips, which I decorated with card stock, as menu holders. Hidden behind the menus were the scratch off tickets for our Pip, Pip, Cherrio game.

Our menu started with a choice of Mulligatawny and Red Lentil Tomato soup. We all ended up having a little serving of both. 

Next we had Lemon Scones with Clotted Devonshire Cream and English Cream Tea Scones with Blackberry Whipped Cream Filling. 

We had an assortment of Tea Sandwiches.

All were quite tasty.

And finally the Pastries and Cakes. 

I could not serve a British style tea without Apple Charlotte. We thought they looked like, what else, little crowns!

I forgot the garnish on my lemon tarts but they still tasted wonderful.

Parfaits are always festive.

In addition to our English Tea selection I also served pink lemonade.

We had a right royal time!

You can find more about our Royal Afternoon Tea by using the links below:

games

decorations

crowns

invitations

Have a wonderful weekend!

DIY thank you note ~ British Theme

I made a little Union Jack thank you note this week.

My first attempt was ok but not quite up to par due to the fact that I tried to piece the flag instead of layer it. As it turned out the layering was much easier, faster and more accurate the second time around which I liked. I should have saved time and gone with my first instinct. 

After all that fussing it is finally in the mail!

Happy Friday!

A Royal Afternoon Tea ~ { games }

The month of May has been full of Tea Parties. Early Saturday morning Miss E and I had a tea for two while we watched the Royal Wedding. Later in the morning we went to a fancy Royal Wedding Viewing Party and watched a recorded version with our friends while eating cream scones and sipping tea. It was a fun weekend. Now I am back with more about our annual mother ~ daughter tea party. 

We had two games this year. The first game we played was Pip, Pip, Cheerio / What did you say? which was a word match game. To customize the game for our party I looked up British words, most of which had to do with tea and treats, and the American translation. 

We passed out printouts of the British words along with pencils and each guest had a numbered scratch off ticket tucked behind their menu. Once everyone had filled in their answers we passed out a tea cup full of pennies and took turns scratching of our tickets to reveal the answers. 

It was a lot of fun.

Before we served the pastries and cakes we played a game called Spill the Tea. I made customized tea bags with a quote on the envelope and a question on the tea bag inside. We passed around a tea pot full of tea bags and everyone reached in and took one. Each guest had a different quote to read and question to answer. 

It was a fun afternoon. I will be wrapping up the tea party posts this week with the Royal Afternoon Tea ~ Fit for a Queen menu and table.

You can find more Royal Afternoon Tea ~ Fit for a Queen posts here & here.

Happy Monday!

Royal Wedding Viewing Parties

Miss E and I were up early today to watch the Royal Wedding live

so I prepared a Tea for Two!

I got a little behind on my baking schedule so did not get the Royal Sugar Cookies all frosted in time for the wedding but they were still cute and tasted great.

This is the little tea table I set up for our

Royal Wedding Viewing Party ~ Tea for Two. 

Since Harry and Meghan chose an Elderflower Wedding Cake I decided to make some festive Elderflower Royal Wedding Cupcakes for the occasion.

I was a little nervous to try a flavor I was not familiar with especially since I was taking some of the cupcakes to another Royal Wedding Viewing Party later in the morning.

I am happy to report the cupcakes got great reviews. I can only imagine how amazing Harry and Meghan's Wedding Cake must have been. 

I also made some mascarpone filled strawberries. I thought they looked like little crowns.

Her Majesty The Queen stopped by our second Royal Wedding viewing party!

It was a Royally fun day!

Happy Saturday!

A Royal Afternoon Tea ~ { Decorations }

A Union Jack banner with crowns and a queen silhouette welcomed our royal guests. Once I designed the three styles of flags I printed enough for two banners and hung the other one in the "State Tea Room".

I made a little chalkboard welcome sign too. 

Mr Wonderful constructed and painted the hat stands for me and then I covered the tops in fabric and lace. 

I put together a cute little fascinator to match my tea party dress.

The DIY mini cloches were table decorations/party favors. I made them from recycled plastic bottles. The photo below shows my practice cloche on a stand which I made using the detachable bottom of a plastic goblet and a plastic lid glued on top. It did not seem quite sturdy enough so I just put the cloches directly on the table instead which worked fine. After the first one was finished I decided to make a few other changes. 

I ended up recycling glass drawer pulls we had for the tops, tied ribbon around the neck and decorated the bottom with pearls. 

Instead of cupcakes underneath I decided on using the little crowns with a chocolate in the middle.

The cloches were so fun that I tried another style.

For the cloche above I used a miniature tea cup and saucer for the base and a drinking glass for the top. You can see that I embellished my lace crown underneath with roses which matched the roses on the saucer. 

The Napkin Rings were easy to make and added a little sparkle to the table. Fortunately I already had the gold napkins.

I will be back soon to share more about our Royal Afternoon Tea including our program and menu. 

Happy Wednesday!