So this time last week, I was filling up my car with the third load of bags/ tea cups, huge pinwheels and Nik-knacks from my home ready to head to my church to set up for our yearly LDS Relief Society's birthday party. Me, being on the Relief Society's committee to help plan, organize and decorate I had already begun the preparations for this in January! Which Included, making the cupcake wrappers and cupcake toppers, making the teacup favors and filling them with yummy treats, making mad hatter hats and other different top hats, ordering teacup's and saucer, getting the gifts for the competition for best decorated hat and making my own cupcake display, which for the night was used as my table centerpiece.
Monday, a few of us sisters spent a total of 4 hours of laying tables, wrapping the knives and forks in napkins and setting the tables and doing their own table centerpieces so, thanks to my friends, Jessica, Laura, Esther, Kaylee, Janet, and the Sister Missionaries helped to set up - the tables and centerpieces looked great :)
For the tables I decorated, I used a pinwheel from the Dollarstore ollarstore pails with Cadbury Creme Eggs, Party hats with the RS logo and bubbles. The table on the right, was the cupcake display I made from an old light fixture, and I added mini ceramic tea sets I found HERE, and some odd tea cups from the thrift store which again, I filled with Cadbury Creme Eggs and a jar filled with Cadbury Mini Eggs - YUM
What wonderful centerpieces my friends did :)
I made simple cardstock pinwheels, that Laura used for her centerpiece. Although, I made mine NOT to spin and just for a decorative use only.
Click HERE to see how.
Climbing a ladder to hang the lanterns and make the non-movable basketball hoop bright and cheerful for the party.
For this display, I raided the dig and save thrift shop and found odd teacups and saucers and a couple of teapots, glued them together using E6000 and then spray painted them using ceramic paint
I cut out large teapots from cardstock and hung them from the basketball hoop
Don't you just love the playing card Guard. I made him from using Foam board and paint.
The cute neon plastic tea cups and saucers I got from Target on sale for $1 each
Here is my mini Mad Hatter Hat I made
Collect some old fallen branches and decorate using birdcages
Here are my girls, smiling for a picture.
I made simple bird cages using, a lid from a jam jar and bendable thick craft wire to make the cage.
Cut out a silhouette bird and hang then decorate the top and bottom with colorful cardstock
Add a topper to the glass bottles and hang a 'drink me' label. HERE
I had so much fun making my huge display MAD HATTER HAT
Click HERE to see how I made it
Esther
Whoever wore a hat got their picture taken, All except me that is! :/
Kaylee and Ginny, who won second in the best decorated hat!
Janet, Megan and Margo
Rachel
Me taking a picture of Emily taking a picture :)
This is Jessica Griffiths the sister who won Best Hat - She and her daughter were matching!
She won a teacup and saucer, filled with herbal teas. She also got Mcvities chocolate biscuits and a teacup cookie cutter HERE.
Emily the lady with the fresh daffodil hat won third prize :)
Good-day Julie :)
I used the scalloped edge for mine.
The teapot and teacup toppers I made by just drawing a design, and cutting them out, gluing them on a cakepop
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