Ladies' Christmas Tea 2011 Part 2

Today I'm showing you pictures of my table.

Here is a picture of my friend and I next to our table. We hosted a table together.

She and I made most of the decorations.

Another view of our table.

The centre piece was branches sprayed in silver. My friend had this crazy idea to have the branches silver coloured but we both don't know how to do it. My wonderful husband graciously sprayed it silver for us.

He also sprayed the rocks too to match the branches. The rocks helped way down the branches so they wont top over.

I crocheted this flower. I made 8 of these and they were very easy to crochet. It was a napkin ring and the guest can also take it apart from the ring and wear the flower.

My friend crocheted a sample and I copied it. I don't understand written instructions on crocheting.

Here was an ornament I made using the Petal Cone Die. 

Added some snowflakes and glitters to them.

My friend folded the napkins. They were shaped like a tree.

She also block printed the words onto the napkins. 

She have an Etsy store quotesandnotes where she sells block printing items and other goodies.

Our place setting.

See the crocheted snowflake on the glass cup? My friend crocheted that. 

She made white ones also. And the tag on the straw she did that too.

Close up of the crocheted snowflakes and crochet yarn balls.

My friend made this banner that goes around the table. 

The words on the banner are the same as the napkin.

The place card was made using the Top Note Die folded in half and then embossed.

The lollipop was chocolate covered Oreo cookie on a stick.

Close up of the place cards.

Beautiful origami cranes made by my friend. They are made from fabric. 

The words are the same words as the napkin. 

 This was the table runner made from red burlap. 

I used crochet thread to do the edges and the snowflakes.

The snowflakes were a challenge. It took me awhile to do them.

I just tied the ends of the crochet thread into a bow. Nothing too fancy.

Last but not least. We gotta have a picture of the goodies. These were just some of them.

There were at least 18 different kinds of yummies. I'm sad I didn't get a picture of the jello cheesecake squares my friend made. It was yummy.

Hope you all enjoy looking at the decorations from the other tables and ours.

Merry Christmas!

Deanna

Ladies' Christmas Tea 2011 Part 1

Few! Finally finished creating. This past Saturday my church hosted a Ladies' Christmas Tea and it was so much fun. My friend and I went all out on the decorating. I look forward to this event every year and so do the other ladies. There were 70-74 ladies came. There were 9 tables and I hosted one of the table. My friend co-hosted with me. Each table had two hostesses to do decorating and baking. We all had to make 60 cookies of 2 kinds. That's a lot of cookies and goodies. But who is complaining, right? You can never have too much. I mean this is the time of year we get to indulge ourselves in the goodies and not feel too bad about it. hehe

Anyway, this is going to be a long post so grab yourself a cup of tea or your favourite drink and enjoy all the pictures I have for you to see. I tried my best to take as many pictures as possible. Not easy decorating your table and at the same time go around and take pictures. I'm so thankful my friend did most of the decorating so I can go around and take pictures.


Here it goes. There are no particular order to the tables.

Table #1

Nice a simple red and white decorations.

Place setting. Folded fan like napkins. 

I like how the silverware was put into a cute folded napkin pocket.

Table #2

Greenery decorations. I love the centre piece.

Place setting. Cute little pine cone with a ribbon on top.

Close up of the pine cone.

Table #3

Very simple and elegant decorations. Kinda antique like. 

I think that's what it is.

Place setting. I love this place setting.

Table #4

Red and green decorations. Very impressive table.

Place setting.

Not sure what this was. Might be a water jug. Should've asked.

Cool personalized sign.

Don't you just love the chocolate fondu platter in the middle there?

Here's a close up of the fondu platter.

Table #5

A sweet factory table. Yummy decorations. You can get your sugar fix here. hehe

Yummy candies trees.

Place setting. I love the beautiful tea cup and saucer.

Wonderful sweet verse from the Bible.

More tea cups and saucers. They are all so different and unique.

Another sweet verse. Love this verse.

Aren't these the cutest marshmallow snowmen?

Here are some more snowmen.

Table #6

 Lots of candy canes here. Red and green decorations.

 Place setting. Shiny green charger. 

I never knew what a charger was before until I hosted a table a few years ago.

Don't you just love this centre piece? I think the hostess made it.

All real decorations here.

Table #7

 Another simple and elegant decorations.

The place setting is beautiful. To bad I didn't get a close up picture of it.

 Angels and star decorations. They were praising God in highest of Jesus birth.

Nativity scene on a cake.

Unfortunately I was unable to take pictures of one table. We rented at a community so we had to start on time and the hostess was late. I try to take pictures without people because some might not like their faces all over the internet. Hope you enjoy all these wonderful pictures of all the tables. I'll show my table on the next post.


Merry Christmas!

Deanna

Place Setting From The Ladies Christmas Tea

Here are some close up photos of the place setting from the Ladies Christmas Tea. i put crystal effect on all the poinsettias and pretty beads in the middle.

I got my DH to print out the word princess on a piece of white card stock then I mounted the word onto brushed silver card stock. I made blank oval name card so whoever sits at our table they can write their names on it. You can't see it too well in the picture but I wrote my name in silver ink.

This is a mini purse with a chocolate inside. It was too pretty that the ladies was afraid to rune the purse if they take the chocolate out. I covered the chocolate with a Bella Rose DSP.

A lady sat at our table had a Polaroid camera so we took a picture of the ladies individually, cut and mounted the photo right there that night. This is a magnetic picture frame that we can put on our fridge.

Happy Stamping!
Deanna

Ladies Christmas Tea

We had our tea party tonight and it was so much fun. It was nice to see everyone's table all decorated differently.

Here are photos of the tables. Skip this post if you are not interested in reading.









This was our table. We did a pink princess theme.

This was our simple centre piece. Very simple.
These are all the place settings I made. I did poinsettias for the Christmas season.

Our group photo wearing our crown.
This was a contest each table did. Each table got a snowman cake (not decorated) with frostings and candies to decorate. We didn't win but we had fun decorating. I don't have the other table's snowmen because I was using my friend's camera.I took a picture of the guest picture but it didn't turn out too good. I was challenged by the message she brought to us. Thank you Susan. You can visit her blog here.

Phew! This was a lot pf photos to upload. Sorry, for the long post.

Happy Holidays!
Deanna