Tea Party!

This past Monday I had a real live tea party, with a real live guest - our granddaughter! She was so excited and helped me plan the food, etc.

Do you remember last year (February 16, 2011) I posted the tablescape above lamenting that our granddaughter never came to our house when they visit Florida. They live in Knoxville and usually when they come to FL they go to Disney and have us go there, instead of staying with us.
Well, it has finally happened, they came here for a few days during spring break and Elisabeth and I were alone one afternoon and had our tea party together!!

I was able to use the same theme using these two Beauty and the Beast tea sets.
I bought these tea sets long ago at TJ Maxx and Ross at good prices!

Belle, from Beauty and the Beast, as a little girl was the centerpiece.
I also added a little "table" (plant stand) with Mrs. Potts tea pot and a cream and sugar bowl beside her:

My yellow Fiesta every day china was perfect with the little tea set plates:

Yellow tablecloth and napkins, and yellow handled flatware.

Elisabeth loves turkey so we had turkey sandwiches shaped like butterflies:
She also loves sliced apples and suggested we have those as well:

Cookies for dessert:

Elisabeth has a real Scotty dog and these shortbread cookies delighted her:

She also wanted "real tea!"
So --

Teddy bear tea:

The "real tea" was served in a real tea pot:

And she drank the real tea from a real china tea cup!

Elisabeth's place:

She was thrilled about using sugar lumps and just about used a dozen of them!! LOL!

KK's place (my grandchildren call me KK.)

Each of us had two short bread cookies, two sugar wafers, and two of the new Girl Scout Savannah Smiles lemon cookies! Yum!

And, yes, KK let her eat a sugar lump!!! LOL!

Elisabeth took Belle and the tea sets home along with a bag of sugar lumps and some teddy bear tea so she can have a tea party with her little friend when she comes to play!
The "plastic" tea slips just so far from the tea pot (then retracts back inside the spout when the tea pot is upright again!

Mrs. Potts is adorable, when you tip her to pour you push the knob on the lid and it makes a gurgling sound as you pour the “tea.” Belle sings several sweet songs.

It was a fun and enjoyable time for both Elisabeth and KK, and she'll have memories to last. I took many pictures for her photo album!

Isn't Belle beautiful!

Thanks to Kathleen for hosting her new dishing party! Click on her name for lots more inspiration!

Tablescape Thursday

Today’s tablescape is a little different. Inspiration for this tablescape came from these two toys I bought for our granddaughter.
I had planned to surprise her with a Belle Tea Party when she comes to visit us. Problem is – they don’t come to visit us!! When they come to Florida they don’t come to our house to stay with us, they go straight to Disney World for the week. Disney World is about two hours from our house. We are invited to go visit them there. This can be fun (and exhausting) but I would like to have our granddaughter come to our house to have memories of being in our home, etc! I’ve bought several things to do with her when they visit our house. She is now four years old, we haven’t had a tea party with her in our house yet.

So I'm having the tea party now and hope to someday be able to re-stage it if they will come here!
When I saw both of these Belle tea party tea sets, including the Belle as a child doll, I knew I wanted them for Elisabeth, who is a girly-girl, and enjoys girly things!
Mrs. Potts, the tea pot, and Chip, the tea cup has a place of honor as part of the centerpiece, along with the sugar bowl and faux sugar cubes.
A metal shabby chic plant stand is used for the table, with a cocktail napkin as the table cloth.

Mrs. Potts

Mrs. Potts is adorable, when you tip her to pour you push the knob on the lid and it makes a gurgling sound as you pour the “tea.” Belle sings several sweet songs.

The "plastic" tea slips just so far from the tea pot (then retracts back inside the spout when the tea pot is upright again!

Belle and Chip

The Tablescape

I used my yellow Fiesta dishes on a pale yellow tablecloth.

Yellow rose napkin rings on yellow napkins.

The little Beauty and the Beast plates top off the dessert plates.

Yellow handled flatware is used.

I took many pictures before I remembered my fresh yellow roses (a Valentine's gift from my husband!) They are perfect for the centerpiece!

Right?

Chip and Mrs. Potts ornaments are iridescent, the picture doesn't show the real beauty.

Belle
and

Mrs. Potts

Invite you to join them

Thanks to Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for hosting Tablescape Thursday, click on her name for more inspiration.

I'm also linking to Lady Katherine's Tea Party Tuesday. Click on her name for lots more inspiration.

Thanks for visiting!