What's a tea party without real cloth napkins?
Or teabags, sugar cubes and lemon slices?
To toss into a giant teacup?
Or the sugar-laden treats?
Let it be said here that I've always liked felt food,
and I wish I had more time to indulge in the making
of it. When we decided we'd be doing a tea party
birthday this year - well, I indulged.
Quite the smorgasbord of calories, were they real.
Fortunately they were mere felt, fleece, beads and stuffing.
We hid them all over the yard,
gave each party guest a treasure map,
armed them with their handbags,
and sent them off to seek -
- one jam tart, one cookie, one cupcake,
one cinnamon roll and one donut.
These were their goodbye-and-thank-you-
for-coming gifts, and for their sweet friendship
to the little birthday girl.
P.S. No tutorials for these - you can find tutorials for felt food all over the internet. I adapted two tutorials for my felt treats - Rachael Rabbit's fabric cupcake and Skip To My Lou's famous doughnuts and winged everything else.
I wish you had boys so that I could steal all of your great ideas for my little one's future parties! That looks like so much fun!
ReplyDeleteI just love that idea-- a treasure hunt that results in a party favor!
ReplyDeleteCan I come to your next party? What FUN!!! Love all your sweet treats!
ReplyDeleteLiEr. I think you might be the most productive and brilliant person who has ever lived. I don't know everyone who has ever lived, so take that with a grain of salt. But still. Holy schmoly.
ReplyDeletegood Lord! you are incredible! what an amazing array of fabric treats! what fun games!!! wish i had been invited....
ReplyDeleteFabulous party idea!! I'm amazed by your works!
ReplyDeleteOh my good lord. I may be 41, but please please please can I come to the next party. What fun. How brilliant are you. Your lovely girls are so lucky to have you. hugs xxx
ReplyDeleteOh, can you please invite me to your next party!? I wanna come!!! :-D
ReplyDeleteI so love those teabags!!! So so cute!
wow how beautifull. Love the little treats....
ReplyDeleteLove it. Love it. One question... how did you secure your sticky buns glue or stitches?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Every day I come to appreciate you more and more for the lovely things you do for your kids! Even if I hadn't been working full time, I don't know how will I find time to do all this. I am comforting myself by telling myself, it's all in the genes! At least that's one thing anybody could use for an excuse.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a fun party! And such indulgence - sure am glad that you were able to play along too! Thanks so much for sharing your creativity with us - it's so very inspiring!
ReplyDeleteAnother brilliant birthday celebration!
ReplyDeleteHow did you make the handles for those handbags? It looks like they have beads?
Jess - about the cinnamon rolls - they're stitched together, exactly like the lollipops from the Little Blue House. I started out cutting one long strip of tan and one of dark brown fleece, and sewing the long sides together, wrong sides out, to make a tube. Then turned right side out, and started coiling so the tan side was outside. The white frosting is puffy paint from any craft store.
ReplyDeletewhat a wonderful tea party it might have been ! I wish I were one of the girls invited, it was like living in a fairy tale !
ReplyDeleteI'm with Grandma G. I want to be invited to all your fun parties. I'm filing this one away in case I ever have a grandchild.
ReplyDeleteFantastic! So creative, as always!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely brilliant!!! What more can I say! x
ReplyDeleteThanks LiEr. I can't wait to try them. Maybe later on today in fact.
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe how cute they are!!! My kids have kitchen stuff, but no fake food. Maybe I will make them some felt doughnuts. Thanks, as always, for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI love all the ideas, thank you. My daughter is always playing tea party and wanting to have one w/ her friends. This is the perfect idea for her next birthday party or tea party w/ Grandma!!
ReplyDeleteWow...confession: sometimes I daydream about being you.
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