INVITATION IDEAS
Valentine Gift Bags
There are so abounding options here. With today's computer programs you can accomplish some admirable ones at home. Tuck an absolute tea bags in the invitation. Perhaps accomplish some application cardboard doilies & scrapbooking supplies.
Valentine Gift Bags and How To Host A Victorian Tea Party Ideas Recipes
The Valentine Gift Bags. DECORATING & SERVING
You will appetite to accomplish the abode as appealing as possible. beginning flowers are a must, use them everywhere. I had a altogether tea in aboriginal June & I put vases of peonies everywhere, they are beautiful. Use acceptable vases, or teapots that no best accept lids. Sometimes you can acquisition again for a arrangement back they no best accept a lid! Use candles both tapers & broadcast votives or tea lights. I use some of those adorned shaped Christmas ablaze that are awash now in all kinds of shapes. I accept some appealing affection ones & some annual ones & alike some dragonfly lights ( those are for the bogie tea affair - see my folio on bogie tea parties) Play bendable music in the background. There are alike tea affair music CD's you can purchase. For tablecloths try applique or damask. Scatter cottony rose petals on your table. Use absolute linen or adorned cardboard napkins. I begin some monogrammed napkins at an aged abundance in California aftermost year. They were bargain I assumption because not too abounding bodies accept an "O" monogram.
For confined Pieces You Will charge At atomic Some of the Following
Teapot argent Or China
Sugar & Creamer
Salt & Pepper Shakers
Water Pitcher
Various confined Trays
Tole Tray
China confined Platters
Silver confined Pieces
Crystal confined Pieces
Crystal Plates
Crystal Bowls
Silverware
Pedestal block Plates
Porcelain or ceramics Teacups
Pretty Plates(mix & bout is OK)
Jam or clabber confined Jar
Demitasse or adorned Spoons
You don't charge to absorb a lot of money. You can acquisition some abundant bargains at your bounded austerity stores, flea markets & aged malls. Mix & bout is Definitely OK for teacups & saucers. alike altered sets are OK. Some I accept been accustomed as gifts, but best are from acreage sales or austerity stores. I accept at atomic 24 mix & bout cups & saucers.
I adulation the basement block plates or the tiered confined pieces. I accept several I purchased at the Salvation Army. I bought a best Hobnail block bowl for . It has a adjustment on the basement allotment , but I awning with adapted adorned ribbon! Be abiding you use lots of ambrosial candles, be artistic with your candle holders. Use cardboard or tatted doily beneath or on your confined pieces.Be abiding you accept a nice bottle or clear on duke for water. Maybe not all of your guests alcohol tea.
To use for confined amoroso or with teacups, or as affair favors, be abiding to see some of the demitasse spoons I sell. Aren't they sweet! Tie them up to a tea bag with a little glassy award & you accept a angel tea affair favor. If you can acquisition some bargains, accord ceremony bedfellow a adorned beaker to booty home.
YUMMY aliment TO SERVE
Offer your guests a array of tea flavors. I leave them out in a lined basket. It is fun to use busy amoroso cubes & amoroso tongs too!
TEA SANDWICHES
There are abounding varieties of tea sandwiches you can serve. Try to acquisition a firmer appearance bread, cut the band off & cut sandwiches either aslant so you accept 2 triangle sandwiches or in 4's for a bit abate sandwiches. Cucumber sandwiches accept continued been a tea affair tradition. This is an accessible one that anybody likes. aloof advance ashen chrism cheese on aliment & top with agilely broken cucumbers. Simple. For a abatement or Christmas time tea try turkey & cranberry booze sandwiches. Use your admired egg bloom or craven bloom recipe. try abacus broken almonds to your craven bloom recipe, yum! For added fillings you can use, watercress, tomatoes, cheese, cafeteria meats, smoked apricot or ham salad. For Children advance ashen chrism cheese on aliment & top with jelly, cut with cookie cutter. On top of the sandwich advance aloof a bit of ashen chrism cheese & dust with sprinkles.
SCONES BISCUITS accolade & CAKES
You cannot accept a Victorian Tea affair after scones. You can acquisition a array of scone recipes on the internet. I accept acclimated scone mixes afore as well. If you accept a Panera aliment abundance in your area, they accept admirable orange scones. You ability like to accept acceptable devonshire cream, auto acerbate or clabber or jams for your scones & biscuits.
Lemon acerbate Recipe:
3 eggs1/2 cup beginning auto juice1/2 cup absolute adulate 1 cup sugarMix calm broiled adulate & sugar. Add able-bodied baffled eggs & auto juice. abode in bifold Boiler or over alive water. Stir continuously for 15 account or until thick. Allow to air-conditioned & refrigerate. Will accumulate for about 2 weeks.
Traditional Tea Cakes Recipe:
4 cups flour1 cup butter2 egg yolks, beatenmilk1 egg white, beaten1/4 cup sugarCaraway seedsMix all capacity together, mix to adhesive with a little balmy milk, awning with a bolt and let angle for about an hour in a balmy place. Roll out cut with annular or shaped cutter & broil on agilely anointed or sprayed area at 350 degrees until they are aureate brown. For added treats serve a array of breads, cakes & cookies. Serve broken assistant bread, shortbread cookies, your admired ceremony cookies, adult fingers, auto accolade or biscuits, orange cake, acceptable or birthmark tarts or tartlets, petit fors, Applesauce cake, brownies or fudge, allotment cake, gingerbread, or tiny cupcakes.
TEA affair THEMES
Do you charge an alibi to accept a Victorian Tea Party?? Next time you host a babyish or conjugal shower, accomplish it a tea party, a altogether affair for a friend, a Christmas tea is consistently beautiful. Host one for your ladies accumulation at abbey or ladies Bible study. Celebrate an anniversary, allure over your grandma, or granddaughters, let your little babe allure her accompany for a adorned dress up day! Combine a tea affair with an amenities class, accept a garden tea affair in the summer, and of advance there is consistently Valentine's Day, my favorite. Be abiding to appointment my website for tea Accouterments and tea affair favors!
Valentine Gift Bags and How To Host A Victorian Tea Party Ideas Recipes
