Mad Hatter Tea Party 4

Now this I loved , this  funky candle holder I got from Goodwill, and a metal candelabra style candle holder that fit into the ceramic candle holder.  I bought a pair  of the metal candelabra  ones at a yard sale. I put these together to make it  -- Mad Hatter perfect, so I just added flowers.

The guest of honor place setting. Blue willow vintage dishware, and coffee cup, single vintage red carnival glass sugar, with DIY rose water sugar cubes, quotes place cards, a special card deck paper flower, and special gift. All printed, and cut out by hand.  Limited edition Alice in Wonderland nail polish was the special gift. Matching the colors from the Movie with Jonny Depp playing the Mad Hatter.

The hand painted bottle again, yes I thought it was pretty, and a view from table side.

On the right side a cooler with hand made  thick place mats topped with hand crocheted hot pads.

My creation, cake stand, with a glass moon and stars cake stand top . on the top of a cream colored stemmed cake plate. Red paper heart doily, 2 vintage Demi cups stacked with my little nasturtiums nestled inside. 

My wonderful, wonderland bee tea pot. This was gifted from a fairy friend.It was perfect.

Misc. tea pots, cups & Quote cards.

All yard sale finds, and printed off the internet.

Lewis Carroll, and a Vintage rainbow Glass Cruet

White Queen, her Castle and her knight

Red Hibiscus and Rose Tea.

My Mad Hatter hat, hanging from my Vintage cane seat chairs. Got the chairs for free off of Craigs list. Hat came from Walmart  during a Halloween shopping spree a long time ago.

Table  side view more limited edition Alice In Wonderland tea. Red Rooibos and Vanilla. Red Queen & her knight. A mason jar citrella candle.

There was two kinds of  Mad Hatter tea made, and they came as a pair.

Full Table view, getting set up. This is the final blog post on my Bucket List Mad Hatter DIY tea party..

Mad Hatter Party Tea ; Continued

Rose Water sugar cubes and the other limited edition tea, the blue can Red Rooibos  herb tea with Vanilla.  Vintage Red carnival glass individual sugers.

Snacks all served.

 Vintage Rainbow glass cruet

All set

Last Flower on the path to Tea Party. I loved this one I made. Button  center like the others.

Mad Hatter tea Party, DIY #2

Really cool 1930's salt and pepper shakers and a printed out card i found on the web.

Limited edition  Alice in Wonderland  tea  Red Hibiscus, and Rose herb tea   The Blue M H tin is Red Rooibos  tea with Vanilla.

My Mad Hatter hat a cheap Halloween Mad Hatter hat a nice ribbon, and a Kirks Folly Red Queen sea view moon pin.

A Very Cool Funky vase I had filled with the only flowers I could scrounge up in my garden.

In the back ground a window frame I made out of some packing material, and a clock I made using a old broken thermometer and some paint. In the vase I put mini Mad Hatter hats out of paper ribbon, corks, and wooden shish kabob sticks. My vintage Blue Willow plates

Getting close to the tea party.. pretty paper flower 

Mad Hatter Tea Party , "2015 " DIY and Collectables - Photo's

These are items that I collected or DIY made.  For My Mad Hatter Tea Party. It took 2 months to prepare for this. It was a great undertaking by myself for the most part. But worth every minute.  This is the first of several blogs i did to show The results. The Bottle is one I saved back, and hand painted some flowers on.

This White Queen I found at Goodwill along with the other chess pieces. It must of been a patio chess set. they were  hand made possible too. They are made of ceramic.

These chess pieces I repainted a bit to match my theme.

Lewis Carroll, I found this tiny frame at a yard sale, I printed his photo off the internet.

The Red Queen also had some paint and the quote card I printed out as well along with many others for my table

This pretty paper flower and card I made. The cards can be printed of the computer I just searched for images I likes that fit my theme.

This is my rabbit hole. On the wooded trail there were lots of trees so we took branches formed a circle shape between two  trees along the path so you had to walk through to continue the journey. I marked it with print outs as well the entire trail is marked with cards before this rabbit hole. After you walk threw its all flowers fantasy flowers I made.

This is the arrow that points you threw the rabbit hole

This set  a bit past he entrance of the rabbit hole after you went through it marked a comer of to he trail.  I made both items here. The little door was a piece of wood I had already. I added a drawer pull I found at a shop. The potion bottle I had I just decorated it. The Quote card I  I used quote from the book.

This is the first direction when you enter the path at the very beginning of this adventure. Total trail length !/4 mile of wooded trail.   I printed this off the internet too.

A lovely hand made paper flower, I used buttons for the centers on all of them  

Here is a tube full of my flowers I think I made close to 200

Lots of beautiful paper flowers

I really loved these they came out spectacular. You can find DIY instructions on the internet , Pinterest, or even by print out kits on Esty, I got one.

Forests: Fables, Folk Stories and Fairytales

                               Forests; Fables, Folk Stories, and Fairytales

Most of our woodland here is of the evergreen variety; Fir, Cedar,  and Spruce. Real fairytale forests, where the light is dim and the ground is soft and velvety with mosses and deep, deep layers of dropped needles. There’s a kind of silence that’s very particular to a Coniferous forest. The low boughs and thick carpeting deadening any outside noise. All you’ll hear is the odd crack of a breaking branch or the call of a bird. There’s an atmosphere very specific to this type of woodland. For those who spent time alone in  a forest such as these they have seen what I've seen. Thus these truths were  created into story's. Stories  that are centered in forests are those where adventures unfold amongst the trees: 

The Wind in the Willows springs to mind. Who could resist the beautifully  - illustrated storybooks of childhood ; Jill Barklem’s -  Brambly Hedge books, Winnie the Pooh,  or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,lets not forget Beatrice Potter.

My favorite forest in a story, Mid Summer Nights Dream, By William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935 ‧ Romance/Comedy ‧ 2h 25m   

watch it if you get a chance its magical.

Narnia

Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later (Lucy) found she was standing in the middle of a wood at night time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air.

C.S. Lewis (1950)

The Enchanted Wood

Loomed up big and dark. The trees spoke to  one another softly. Wisha, wisha, wisha," they said.

Enid Blyton "The Magical Faraway Tree (1943)

The Forbidden Forest  

They walked for nearly and hour, deeper and deeper into the forest, until the path almost  impossible to follow because the trees were so thick.

JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (1997)

The forests of Middle Earth

There was a silence, for suddenly the dark and unknown forest, so near at hand, made its self felt as a great brooding presence full of secret purpose.

JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers (1954)

Red Riding Hoods, wolf infested forest

She ran off the path into the woods looking for flowers. each time she picked one 

she thought she saw a more beautiful one a little ways away off and ran after it, going farther and farther into woods.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1812)

The Forest of Wonderland

"Curious and Curiouser"

Lewis Carroll,  Alice in Wonderland (1865)