Tea Outdoors With Niece

I had the pleasure of having my 10 year old niece for two days.

Early today she asked to have a tea party, so we got busy!

We did have to have our tea under the Zen Room canopy

 because it has rained most of the day

and things were pretty soggy outside. 

Yesterday we went to the movies and saw Despicable Me 2.

If you haven't yet seen the first one I highly recommend it -

 I had to rent it from Amazon instant downloads

 because Netflix didn't have it.

We watched that together the night before

 and then saw the sequel to it yesterday.

It's just so darned cute.

(And not just for children!)

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Afterwards we visited my favorite secondhand store 

and hit the motherlode of tea cup sets!

We found some real beauties!

I am so excited about it!

Some of them you will be seeing in the emporium soon!

This morning we picked a fresh zucchini from our veggie garden

and made bread.  She is very helpful in the kitchen.

I kept calling her my "minion," if you saw the movie you would

understand why. They're adorable helpers!

After the bread was done baking and was cooling 

I had her pick out what china she wanted us to use

from some we found yesterday.

I washed them well and the above sets is what she chose.

She chose blueberry tea, and like most children likes it sweet -

so she filled an egg cup with sugar cubes. 

We used pretty rose chintz egg cups earlier 

for our soft boiled egg breakfast.

I like her choices, don't you?

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If  you look carefully at the first pic you will see 

a last minute addition of ICE CUBES to cool her tea.

She asked how adults can stand drinking super hot tea.

I told her I actually remember asking that question

myself when I was a child.

Time flies. Seems like yesterday.

Our menu:

Curry Chicken  Salad Fingers

Egg Salad Triangles on Wheat

Ham and Cheese with Honey Mustard

(on honey buns)

Sweet Lemon Bread

Zucchini Bread with Butter

Walker's Shortbread Cookies

Neither of us "dressed" properly for tea,

 as this was put together rather quickly and unplanned-

so she and I were quite casual.

She initially asked I not show her picture,

 then changed her mind and posted for this one.

With her permission I am sharing it.

She recently started wearing contacts.

She's been through a lot with her eyes,

so we're all pretty excited for her.

Isn't she a sweetheart?

As always, thank you for your visit!

♥

~Michele

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