tea.time.

if you're going to have a tea.embroidery party - it helps to have someone who collects beautiful teapots!  

alas - i forgot to take a picture of all of them.

it also helps if you are not much of a baker - to have a friend who loves baking to whip up all the treats - 

i barely got one picture of these, as well.  

so now that you know beforehand my failings in this documentation of me and my friend Allison's tea.embroidery party - you are free to enjoy the things that i did manage to capture.

we had 28 lovely folk.

i made sweet LOVE pincushions for all of them - with a needle to act as cupid's striking arrow.

one friend (who is great at hosting tea parties) suggested sprinkling mm's all over the tables - genius, right?!  we had beautiful, tiny bouquets of roses at each table with mason jar bouquets of embroidery floss.  i had one table set aside for all the other supplies - print outs and iron-ons of sweet little images from HERE and HERE, carbon paper and knitting needles to trace the images with, as well as pre-cut squares of fabrics in different colors.

after some bites of sweet treats and sips of tea - the dolls were ready to stitch!  (i failed to take any closeup shots!  forgive me.)  they had a blast!  a few of them hadn't done it since they were little girls in school.  ahh.  to be young again.

my dear, sweet 7yo - who helped me and some of the littlest stitchers, accidently touched the iron (again a failing on my part of forgetting to warn her not to touch the iron!)  and later at home when the blister began to emerge - we saw it start out as a heart-shape.  ?!?!  her thumb is better now!  whew!!

xoxo