Butterfly Tea

These butterfly plates (found at TJ Maxx) were the inspiration for my butterfly tea.  I don't like to use paper products for my teas but these were too cute to pass up and I convinced myself paper plates were OK for an outdoor tea.  I have been wanting to try "floating icing" on cookies so decided to give it a try with butterflies which I placed in each cup.

My mom did the cross stitch on the table cloth.



Another view of the table.  





       

        Menu

    Chicken Salad Tarts

    Lemon-Poppy Seed Zucchini Bread

    Herbed Strawberry Sandwiches

        Cream Scones with Lemon Curd and Blackberry Jam

Butterfly Cookies

Pavlova with Lemon Cream and Berries

Lemon Bars

Blueberry Cheesecake Bars

Lipton's Blackberry Vanilla Tea

Gevalia Green Tea with Mango

  



 

My tiered tray has pink roses on it.  I added crocheted hot pads in blue to go with my color scheme.

 Teacups ready for the addition of a butterfly cookie and trip to the patio.  Rain was threatening and I didn't set the table until 10 minutes before the ladies were due to arrive.  We lucked out with just a few sprinkles.  Unfortuately I didn't have much time to take photos.  I'm so envious of bloggers with the professional quality photos.



Desserts.

  Can you see the butterfly drip catcher on the teapot?

 





A new tea tile and tea bag holder that I used for lemons.  The metal bird is a lemon squeezer.

 




The butterfly vase was on a patio table didn't appear in any of the photos so took a photo inside.  This is an "Andover China" Vase.  Andover China was produced locally in the late1940's.

 




The tea lady obligatory photo