A Very Fine Tea Party!

As you can see, we had a tea party for Ellie Kate on her birthday.  It was so much fun and possibly my favorite party yet!  I had so much fun coming up with all the details and making everything in our house so pretty:).  Ellie Kate was sooooooo excited to have her school friends see her house and come to the party.  I loved watching how excited she was.  Her friends are so sweet and they all seemed to have so much fun!

I borrowed a lot of stuff from my mom...the tablecloth, silver tea set, and cups and saucers. 

I had sweet tea in the tea pot and the girls LOVED pouring that into their teacups.  It was so cute!  

I also had pink lemonade in their milk bottles in case they didn't like the tea.

When the girls arrived, they had to get ready by putting on a hat (dollar tree finds by my mom),  pearl necklaces (from amazon.com), and lip gloss that I applied.  They all looked so beautiful when I was done with them:). 

Outside, I had a few activities for them.  First, the decorated little tea pot foam frames.  They loved that of course.  Then I had little purses from Hobby Lobby and fabric flowers (I asked a sweet friend Allison to make them for me) for them to pick out.  I then hot glued the flowers onto the purse.  They loved these too!

Since Ellie Kate and her friends are so into American Girl dolls, I had them bring their favorite doll to the tea party.  I made little party hats for the dolls that turned out so cute.  I found the template on pinterest.  I was going to have a table set up for the dolls to have a tea party at, but I just sort of ran out of ideas by the end of the week and couldn't implement that one, so the dolls just got carried around a lot and then sat on the chair together during tea time.

 

For food, I did a Publix cake, fruit, Publix petit fors, chips, cheese straws, and little sandwiches (not pictured).  Simple and mostly cheap (besides the cake).

I think EK will remember this party for a long time.  It was so much fun and we loved celebrating our special 6 year old!!!! Now, I am just soooo glad to be done with parties for awhile!  My children have birthdays all in a row with Christmas in between and it's exhausting, but fun:).