Mrs. Wright's tea party

    Thursday, March 27, 2008, 12:35 PM [General]
    Posted By: sally

    This is a story about Mrs. Wright's tea party. She lived right at the end of Lefty Lane, the third house on the left.
    Every other Wednesday, Mrs. Wright would host a tea party. The women would enter left, right through the front door and greet Mrs. Wright, they would head right down the stairs, turning left then right into Mrs. Wright's family room.
    Two of the girls were left-handed so they would sit at the left of the table. Mrs. Wright held up her right hand and all of her friends grew quiet, except the left-handed girl on the right patting Mrs. Wright's dog named Hefty Lefty.
    Mrs. Wright asked Sarah Wright and Julie Wright to pass out the teacups starting to the left. Sarah Wright and Julie Wright started out left but turned back because they left the cups just to the right of the table, right next to the spoons. Mrs. Wright said, "That's all right."
    Mrs. Wright began to serve her friends some pie when Grandma Wright smelled the delicious desserts and left her bedroom to join the Wright girls. She went down the stairs and turned left than right, right into Mrs. Wright's family room.
    Grandma Wright knocked and entered left and sat in the rocking chair on the left. Sarah Wright and Julie Wright invited Grandma Wright to join them at the table.
    Grandma Wright had been to many tea parties as a young girl and right before they realized it, Grandma Wright was telling them a stories from when she was little and went to the right cabinet and in the left drawer were pictures of her tea parties.
    As the party ended, they all put their dishes right in the left side of the sink and thanked Mrs. Wright and Grandma Wright for such a wonderful time. Soon, all of the women from the Wright tea party turned right than left, then left again to return to the front door and out to the right car that they arrived in. Down lefty lane they went.

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    LOLLIPOP FLOWERS

    Saturday, February 23, 2008, 7:45 PM [General]
    Posted By: sally

    LOLLIPOP FLOWERS
    Lollipop Flowers These colorful candy blossoms make a great centerpiece for your party table.The petals and leaves are simply cut colored paper. Affix the petals with tape and cut slits in the leaves. For a special touch, arrange a bouquet by inserting the lollipop "stems" into a Styrofoam dome (sold at most craft stores).

    LACY PAPER FANS
    Perfect props for Lacy Paper Fans tea party guests, these lacy paper fans are a breeze to make.Use a glue stick to affix a paper doily onto a sheet of colored paper, then fold the sheet accordion style. For a handhold, pinch together one shorter end and secure it with a rubber band.

    PARTY FAVORS
    Lacy Paper Fans Turn white paper bags (sold at most party stores) into giant tea bag party favors by filling each one with costume jewelry, penny candy and a toy cup and saucer (buy a tea set and divide it up). Fold the upper corners of each bag toward the center, then fold down the top and staple a piece of string to it. Staple a paper name tag to the end of the string.

    MENU
    Juice, herbal iced tea or sun tea punch
    Tea sandwiches with the crusts removed and cut into quarters: PB & J or chicken salad
    Animal Crackers
    Tea cupcakes

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    PARTY POINTERS

    Saturday, February 23, 2008, 7:44 PM [General]
    Posted By: sally

    PARTY POINTERS
    • The table is a main focal point of this party, so go all out with a festive tablecloth, place cards and lollipop flowers.
    • Keep the activities simple: put on outfits from a dress-up box filled with old party clothes, hats and costume jewelry; go on a sticker hunt; pose for photos; and sing "I'm a Little Teapot."
    • Fill a box with outfits from your closet or a local thrift store that the guests can dress up in.
    • Buy film for group photos and toy cups and saucers for favor bags.
    • Make sandwiches and fill a fancy pot with herbal iced tea.

    TEA INVITATIONS
    You'll want to brew Tea Invitations up a proper invite for this party--like this colored-paper teapot. You can draw each one freehand or simply enlarge the shape shown here on a copy machine and use it as a template. Write the party greeting on the front and the date, time and other particulars on the back. Then cut out a tea bag "tag" on which to print "Bring a teddy bear, stuffed animal or doll." Staple one end of a short string to the tag and the other to the teapot top, and the invitation is ready to pop in an envelope to mail or deliver.

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    Are You Planning A Tea Party?

    Saturday, February 23, 2008, 7:41 PM [General]
    Posted By: sally

    Remember those enjoyable afternoons spent in the company of a few friendly dolls, a nice pot of pretend tea and a few cookies snagged from the kitchen? Those are some of the most enjoyable moments for little girls, but some women give up the gaiety of female companionship, the sweet taste of sugary treats and the comfort of a pot of tea once they mature and take on the role of a full-grown adult. Perhaps women give up these fantasies too quickly without thinking about how they can transform them into an adult tea party. If you think that you would like to revisit the idea of inviting a few close friends over for an afternoon tea party, read on to discover some useful tips and ideas on what to do.

     

    How to Throw an Adult Tea Party

    Learning how to throw an adult tea party can be as simple as reading a few selective articles, taking a book out from the library to peruse or attending a few of these events for which you have received an invitation. Certain posh stores specializing in tea frequently host afternoon tea parties as a way to revive this lovely tradition of sharing a spot of tea, some refreshments and female camaraderie. These tea events can range from elaborate orchestrations to the simply designed. However, two things typically occur as a result of attending an afternoon tea party. One is that the women who attend often meet other women with whom they form lasting bonds and friendships.
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    Decorating the Mothers Day Table

    Saturday, February 9, 2008, 1:50 PM [General]
    Posted By: sally

    Decorating the Mothers Day Table
    Tablecloth & Napkins
    The tablecloth helps to set the mood for your finished table setting and to determine just how formal it will be. Let the cloth generously overhang the table. Use two, a drop or under cloth that hangs just to the floor, with the tablecloth chosen for the meal, over it. For china with patterns, use solid colors for your tablecloth such as white damask, batiste or linen. For china without patterns,choose a patterned tablecloth to provide a much needed mix and match.

    Use your napkins as decorations, they provide a fun way to dress up your table! A few napkin decorating ideas: A fresh daffodil tied with lace; A silk rose tucked under a woven ribbon; cinnamon sticks and eucalyptus leaves wrapped with raffia; artificial cherries accented against gingham checks; A violet bunch with a narrow picot ribbon.&39;

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    How about a Mothers Day Tea?

    Saturday, February 9, 2008, 1:41 PM [General]
    Posted By: sally

    Celebrating Mother's Day
    A great way to celebrate Mother's Day is to give her the day off. Taking it easy is todays theme, let her relax while the rest of the family does all the work. Let her sleep in, she deserves it! Make a great breakfast, then serve it to her in bed (a tradition best established and carried on by Dad and the kids). Arrange breakfast nicely on a tray, include any cards and gifts from the kids and don't forget a vase with a single flower fresh picked from your yard since spring here! The rest of the day is open for whatever she likes, but let her choose. Let Mom relax and see just how wonderful a family she has. Make reservations in advance for a nice dinner and a perfect way to end a perfect day (never let Mom cook on Mother's Day!).

     

    How about a Mothers Day Tea?
    Having people over for a Mother's Day Tea is a perfect time to unite moms' closest friends with some of her family, surrounding her with love. It's best held a few days or the weekend before so her friends can make it too, but the thought will not be diminished. We have provided some simple ideas to decorate the table below to help set a perfect mood. A simple bundt cake with butter cream frosting creates a natural background to blazing pansies in all their spring glory (pansies are edible flowers). Your Mothers Day tea table is best accented with beautiful spring flowers, including tulips, roses, or delphinium to make a perfect setting, but just about any will do. Stacks of tasty tea sandwiches embellished with vegetables, and decorated with flowers are offered along with warm scones & fresh spring strawberries.

     

    Decorating the Mothers Day Table
    Tablecloth & Napkins
    The tablecloth helps to set the mood for your finished table setting and to determine just how formal it will be. Let the cloth generously overhang the table. Use two, a drop or under cloth that hangs just to the floor, with the tablecloth chosen for the meal, over it. For china with patterns, use solid colors for your tablecloth such as white damask, batiste or linen. For china without patterns,choose a patterned tablecloth to provide a much needed mix and match.

    Use your napkins as decorations, they provide a fun way to dress up your table! A few napkin decorating ideas: A fresh daffodil tied with lace; A silk rose tucked under a woven ribbon; cinnamon sticks and eucalyptus leaves wrapped with raffia; artificial cherries accented against gingham checks; A violet bunch with a narrow picot ribbon.&39;

    The centerpiece is next. Choose one that compliments your tablecloth and napkins. Be creative! Want some ideas anyway? Bright yellow lemon slices and roses to fill a glass bowl. Red cranberries and roses together in a small glass vase. Brilliant daffodils surrounded by transparent marbles in a vase. Fresh asparagus to create a unique container for sweetpea. Or the simple use of colorful assorted fruits (tangerines, peach, grapes, apples, bananas, ... think colorful!).

    Other Ideas for Table Settings
    o How about flowers at each table setting? A single flower or mini flowerpot both work great. This can complement the centerpiece or can even replace it altogether.
    o Add decorations that match the motif of the room.   Antiques, porcelains, figurines, candle sticks, ... it's really up to you. Be spontaneous.

    And remember a golden rule for flowers,   the less you try to arrange to make it perfect, the better and more perfect it will be.  Fresh & spontaneous is the key. Keep this in mind and you will surprise yourself!

     


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    “DO COME IN FOR A CUP OF TEA”

    Thursday, January 24, 2008, 6:56 AM [General]
    Posted By: sally

    “DO COME IN FOR A CUP OF TEA”


    This is Best Society’s favorite form of invitation. It is used on nearly every occasion whether there is to be music or a distinguished visitor, or whether a hostess has merely an inclination to see her friends. She writes on her personal visiting card: “Do come in on Friday for a cup of tea and hear Ellwin play, or Farrish sing, or to meet Senator West, or Lady X.” Or even more informally: “I have not seen you for so long.”

     

    Invitations to a tea of this description are never “general.” A hostess asks either none but close friends, or at most her “dining” list; sometimes this sort of a “tea” is so small that she sits behind her own tea-table—exactly as she does every afternoon.

     

    But if the tea is of any size, from twenty upwards, the table is set in the dining-room and two intimate friends of the hostess “pour” tea at one end, and chocolate at the other. The ladies who “pour” are always especially invited beforehand and always wear afternoon dresses, with hats, of course, as distinguished from the street clothes of other guests. As soon as a hostess decides to give a tea, she selects two friends for this duty who are, in her opinion, decorative in appearance and also who (this is very important) can be counted on for gracious manners to everyone and under all circumstances.

     

    It does not matter if a guest going into the dining-room for a cup of tea or chocolate does not know the deputy hostesses who are “pouring.” It is perfectly correct for a stranger to say “May I have a cup of tea?”

    The one pouring should answer very responsively, “Certainly! How do you like it? Strong or weak?”

     

    If the latter, she deluges it with hot water, and again watching for the guest’s negative or approval, adds cream or lemon or sugar. Or, preferring chocolate, the guest perhaps goes to the other end of the table and asks for a cup of chocolate. The table hostess at that end also says “Certainly,” and pours out chocolate. If she is surrounded with people, she smiles as she hands it out, and that is all. But if she is unoccupied and her momentary “guest by courtesy” is alone, it is merest good manners on her part to make a few pleasant remarks. Very likely when asked for chocolate she says: “How nice of you! I have been feeling very neglected at my end. Everyone seems to prefer tea.” Whereupon the guest ventures that people are afraid of chocolate because it is so fattening or so hot. After an observation or two about the weather, or the beauty of the china or how good the little cakes look, or the sandwiches taste, the guest finishes her chocolate.

     

    If the table hostess is still unoccupied the guest smiles and slightly nods “Good-by,” but if the other’s attention has been called upon by someone else, she who has finished her chocolate, leaves unnoticed.

     

    If another lady coming into the dining-room is an acquaintance of one of the table hostesses, the new visitor draws up a chair, if there is room, and drinks her tea or chocolate at the table. But as soon as she has finished, she should give her place up to a newer arrival. Or perhaps a friend appears, and the two take their tea together over in another part of the room, or at vacant places farther down the table. The tea-table is not set with places; but at a table where ladies are pouring, and especially at a tea that is informal, a number of chairs are usually ready to be drawn up for those who like to take their tea at the table.

     

    In many cities, strangers who find themselves together in the house of a friend in common, always talk. In New York smart people always do at dinners or luncheons, but never at a general entertainment. Their cordiality to a stranger would depend largely upon the informal, or intimate, quality of the tea party; it would depend on who the stranger might be, and who the New Yorker. Mrs. Worldly would never dream of speaking to anyone—no matter whom—if it could be avoided. Mrs. Kindhart on the other hand, talks to everyone, everywhere and always. Mrs. Kindhart’s position is as good as Mrs. Worldly’s every bit, but perhaps she can be more relaxed; not being the conspicuous hostess that Mrs. Worldly is, she is not so besieged by position-makers and invitation-seekers. Perhaps Mrs. Worldly, finding that nearly every one who approaches her wants something, has come instinctively to avoid each new approach.

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    TEA & ETIQUETTE

    Thursday, January 3, 2008, 7:34 AM [General]
    Posted By: sally

    TEA & ETIQUETTE
    by
    Dorothea Johnson
     
     
    People often form an opinion of others on the basis of first impressions.    Because an opinion, once set, can be difficult to alter, it is important to follow etiquette rules that provide others a sterling view of you.
     
    Basic business and social etiquette conventions:
     
      *  Do rise, regardless of gender, to greet and shake hands with your guests.
      *  Do try a little of each course served at tea.
      *  Do avoid talking with your mouth full.  Take small bites, and you will find it easier 
           to answer questions or join in table talk.
      *  Do wait until you have swallowed the food in your mouth before you take a sip of
           tea.
      *  Do place your napkin on your chair when you breiefly leave the table.
      *  Do place your knife and fork in the 10:20 "I am finished" position when you have
            finished eating.  Visualize a clock face on your plate.  Place the tips of the
            utensils at the number ten and the handles at the four.
      *  Do convey food to you mouth with an inward, not an outward, curve of the fork.
      *  Do look into, not over, the cup of tea when drinking.
      *  Do spread the scone with jam first, and then add cream.
     
    Just as important as the above list is a list of don'ts:
     
      *  Don't overload the fork when eating foods served at tea.
      *  Don't smack you lips.
      *  Don't touch your face or head when dining.
      *  Don't tip up the cup too much when drinking tea, but keep it at a slight angle.
      *  Don't extend a pinkie when holding a cup.
      *  Don't reach across the table or across another person to get something.  If it is
           out of reach, ask the closest person to pass it to you.
      *  Don't place your napkin on the table when you are ready to leave.
      *  Don't involve your guests in paying the bill.
     
     
    (From Tea Time magazine)
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    Favors for a tea party

    Sunday, December 30, 2007, 9:26 AM [General]
    Posted By: sally

    # 1  

    Favors : 

    spoons dip in white or chocolate ( they now have  red  and purple chocolate) 

     

    Create your own tea bag baskets. Buy an assortment of individually wrapped herbal and flavored tea bags. Fill a little basket with two to three tea bags and place a wrapped candy (or other little treat) along with them. Adorn the handle of the basket with a bow that compliments your theme.


    Bake treats to give as party favors. Consider whipping up some shortbread cookies. The buttery treats are a good dessert to have with tea and very basic to make. Select little tins to place the cookies in, or simply wrap a few with clear or decorated cellophane paper. Secure the top with a ribbon or a wired silk flower.


    Offer homemade chocolates in little boxes as party favors. Purchase plastic chocolate molds with shapes such as teacups, ladies' handbags or shoes. Chocolate is easy to make and can be stored in advance of the party.



    Give out little books as tea party favors. Make your theme even more powerful by offering books that pay tribute to the theme. For instance, if your theme is about an English author or an era in history, select a book of quotes or poetry by that person or from that time-period.

     

     

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    Teacup Relay Game

    Sunday, December 30, 2007, 9:14 AM [General]
    Posted By: sally

    Teacup Relay:
    Need-plastic teacups and saucer.  Water.
    Have teams ready, first must fill the cup with water and race to designated area and back again with out spilling.
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