As I mentioned in my post about Julia's 4th birthday, Julia's 5th birthday was presenting a challenge to me since she just loved last year's party. She easily selected her theme, Alice in Wonderland, since Alice is her favorite Disney 'not really a princess' princess!
Once we had our theme, which naturally leant itself to creating a tea party, we began by creating the invitation. Julia loved this black and white original illustration from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, drawn by John Tenniel, so I incorporated it into our Queen of Hearts playing card idea.
For our decorations, we went with a pink and blue color scheme and created a simple tea party for two.
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Pink cylindrical and blue spherical lanterns from Target hung above our table. The table was set with
bright pink wavy plates from Party City, which sat atop metallic teal chargers (on sale at Michaels for just $1.00 each - boy do I love a sale).
It was also adorned with talking flower centerpieces made from fancy glass olive oil bottles from Home Goods, with keys tied round their necks.
Alice needs both the key and the little bottle reading 'drink me' (which Julia & Kirten both LOVED drinking from) in Chapter 1 of Julia's favorite story.
For dessert, Pillsbury Funfetti cupcakes were a must with our favorite buttercream frosting tinted pink.
Four cupcakes were tea party ready, being baked in silicone teacup shaped cupcake molds, which came complete (I believe from Home Goods) with plastic serving saucers!
My Home Goods cake stand and Dollar Tree silver serving trays made for quite a lovely presentation! And of course, our Alice figurines (minus the Cheshire Cat, who seemed to have disappeared a long time ago) made their way to the table with some help from none other than Julia.
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