Birthday Tea Party!

This past weekend I had a few of my favorite tea sisters for an overnight fun tea weekend to celebrate our friend Dawn's birthday.

It was planned to be a garden tea

 but it was WAY too hot outside!

The theme's colours were pink and green,

 Dawn's fav two colours.

If you recall last October these same ladies

 had a lovely birthday tea party weekend for ME,

which I so happily blog posted.

My friend Mary (who organized it all)

 gave me the prettiest birthday tea cup shown here.

 (You can find that original party post here.)

We all decided that we would begin the tradition of

~The Travelling Birthday Tea Cup~

 and keep passing this celebratory cup back and forth to one another-

encouraging our getting together to celebrate our birthdays.

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I stuck tuille-wrapped votive candles

 at each place setting as favors: 

Pink Lady Slippers and Garden Hideaway (spring green)

 They smell absolutely heavenly!

Here's the menu card stuck inside antique cream soup cups:

It shows everything but the last bit on the bottom,

 which were fruit tart phylo cups.

The Spinach was from the garden, as was the dill in the egg salad

and the lavender glaze for the orange cake.

I decorated the apple cinnamon cake bites

 with Violas and mint leaves

from my garden as well.

I also added cucumber sandwiches

caramel chocolate bites and currant scones,

 but for some reason I forgot them on the menu card.

I was so busy serving I completely forgot to take pics

 of the soup, salads, scones or sandwiches. 

Everything was on two 3 tiered trays.

(I soooo need a butler for tea parties, I swear!)

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My teapot, sugar, creamer and teacups all matched

but I used a different luncheon and salad plate

because they looked nice together and because

I don't have enough of the luncheon plates in 

that china to go around.

M & Z Austria/Habsburg hand painted china pattern

 "Juliette"

was used for our tea.

I have shared it before with its unique 
hexagon shape.

This rose at Dawn's place setting is from my garden

and makes her spot at the table just a little more festive.

Pretty light pink vintage linens were used.

I placed little pink heart sugar cubes in each cup

as a fun little surprise for my guests.

As always, thank you for your visit!

♥

~Michele

Linking:

Make It Pretty  *  A Return to Loveliness  *  Tea Time Tuesday

Teacup Tuesday - Terri  *  Teacup Tuesday - Martha

Inspire Me Tuesday * Tuesdays Cuppa Tea  *  Tea in the Garden

Pretty Things  * Let's Dish  *  Share Your Cup * Sous Mon Arbre

Tablescape  Thursday  *  Feathered Nest  *  Romantic Home 

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