Jane Austen Birthday Party: Party Favors II

So as you know if you have been following my page, I just celebrated my 29th birthday with a Jane Austen Garden Tea Party.

In my earlier posts, I have shared some of the earlier pieces in putting the party together and of course I had to go over the party favors.

But I realized after I posted it, I completely forgot to include what I put in the gift bags for the little girls who attended my party!

From Clueless

So like for the adults, all the girls were given a teacup of their choice. I had picked out a few small ones especially for the little girls Each cup cost no more than $4, varying from $2-$4.

I needed more bags than the ones I purchased at Hobby Lobby, so I ended up going to the dollar tree where I got three brown bags with pink sparkles for a $1.

The girls were also each given a reusable teabag from Madsen Creations and for the material I chose this beautiful flowered print in the shapes of different fruit. Strawberries and pineapples were a must have in regency times.

Each girl was also given a beautiful gold teaspoons from Best Starloop. A set of 16 for $15.99 ($0.99 each).

And each girl was also given a bag filled with loose leaf tea I already owned, giving each person a different tea. The tea I used was: Adagio Tea Scottish Breakfast, Caroline’s Coffee Roasters Princess Earl Grey, Crafted Leaf Golden Tip Lapsang Souchong, Good Earth Rosa de Jamaica, Harts of America Sleepynight Tea Extra Strength, Tiesta Tea Fruity Paradise, Tiesta Tea Nutty Almond Cream, Tiesta Tea Royal Breakfast, Tiesta Tea Victorian Earl Grey, and TWG Singapore Breakfast

I also gave them each Chocolate or Vanilla wafers, each one only costing $0.38 in the bulk section at Winco.

But while these were nice, I also wanted to make sure the girls had more fun in their party favors. They also were each given a rose pen and a slinky (the pens were $1 at the Dollar tree and the slinkys came in packs of 2 for $1. I also gave the girls the leftover balloons from the pack I used to make my teapot piñata.

They came out to be about $8 a party favor. The girls all liked it and used their bags to store their candy from the piñata.

We are almost done with my party plans. Can you believe it? Just a few more things to share.

For more of my Jane Austen Birthday plans, go to Jane Austen Birthday Party: Party Favors

For more Jane Austen party ideas, go to Jane Austen Birthday Party: What’s in Your Purse Game

And in other news, Happy 4th of July! I hope you all have a safe and fun holiday!

Jane Austen Birthday Party: Party Favors

So as you know if you have been following my page, I just celebrated my 29th birthday with a Jane Austen Garden Tea Party.

In my earlier posts, I have shared some of the earlier pieces in putting the party together and of course I have to include the party favors.

So for the first thing I wanted to do was have teacups for everyone to drink out of, whether they wanted tea, lemonade, or water; and have enough for them to all be taken home. I found two at a local vintage shop, fourteen at Goodwill, and two more at a different vintage shop. I tried to have a real variety so there was sure to be enough for everyone to have one they would love. Each cup cost no more than $4, varying from $2-$4.

I was just going to buy plain brown bags for people to take their favors home in, but when I went to Hobby Lobby I found a beautiful printed set of 12 for 6.99 (making them about $0.58 each). You can see three of them that I used for the prizes.

To go with the teacups I ordered reusable teabags from Madsen Creations and chose this beautiful flowered print in the shapes of different fruit. Strawberries and pineapples were a must have in regency times.

I also ordered these beautiful gold teaspoons from Best Starloop. A set of 16 for $15.99 ($0.99 each) was a great deal, and they are so beautiful.

I also filled a bag with loose leaf tea I already owned, giving each person a different tea. The tea I used was: Adagio Tea Scottish Breakfast, Caroline’s Coffee Roasters Princess Earl Grey, Crafted Leaf Golden Tip Lapsang Souchong, Good Earth Rosa de Jamaica, Harts of America Sleepynight Tea Extra Strength, Tiesta Tea Fruity Paradise, Tiesta Tea Nutty Almond Cream, Tiesta Tea Royal Breakfast, Tiesta Tea Victorian Earl Grey, and TWG Singapore Breakfast

And to finish it off I decided on Biscoff Chocolate and Vanilla wafers, each one only costing $0.38 in the bulk section at Winco.

They came out to be about $6 a party favor. A great deal? I think so and a cute party favor.

We are almost done with my party plans. Can you believe it? Just a few more things to share.

For more of my Jane Austen Birthday plans, go to Jane Austen Birthday Party: What’s in Your Purse Game

For more Jane Austen party ideas, go to Jane Austen Birthday Party: Guess How Many Sugar Cubes

Strawberry Lemonade

So you all know how much I love tea:

But unfortunately, not everyone does. Especially most of my nieces. So what to make for a tea party, that isn’t tea?

Hmmm…

How about some Strawberry Lemonade, made from real strawberries?! That sounds great to me! This recipe comes from Allrecipes. 

Ingredients:

• 8 Large Strawberries, Halved
• 2 Tablespoons of White Sugar
• 7 Cups of Water
• 1 Cup of White Sugar
• 2 Cups of Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice

Directions:

1. Place the strawberries in a blender with two tablespoons of sugar.
2. Pour in one cup of water and blend until the strawberries become juice.
3. Combine the strawberry juice, 6 cups of water, 2 cups of Sugar, and lemon juice in a large pitcher. Stir until blended.
4. Chill before serving.

So this was extremely good! I used Meyer’s Lemons and if you do that you want to reduce the sugar as they are sweeter than regular ones. But otherwise it was fantastic and came out a pretty coral orange color.

For more lemon recipes, go to Ginger Cardamom Meyer Lemon Crinkle Cookies

For more drink recipes, go to Skinny Chai Tea Latte

For more recipes, go to The Picture of Earl Grey Tea Cookies

Night of Day of the Dead: Lizzie McGuire (2001)

You ate the food offering of the Day of the Dead? You stole the sacred meal of my dead ancestors?

Its Halloween night and in Lizzie McGuire world that means her school is putting on a Halloween carnival. Unfortunately for her, Matt will be there. 😦

Kate is in charge of the carnival, Fright Night, and as usual and all of Lizzie’s friends are helping out. Miranda wants to include things from Dia de los Muertos, and while Kate isn’t really into that, the rest of the group are able to convince her. Miranda warns everyone to respect the skeleton representations of the ancestors, because if you don’t bad things can happen to you.

Lizzie really wants to be Vampira, the dungeon mistress and Kate says its okay as long as she cleans out the sticky, icky, nasty janitor’s closet.

Now this girl is in 7th/8th grade and she wants to wear this costume.  That’s really raunchy for a girl her age. If I was her parents I would keep a closer eye on her.

Gordo helps Lizzie out of course because he is in love with her. I never understood how it took her until the end of the series to discover that.

Of course when she finishes Kate turns on her and instead of letting her be Vampira she gets to be a clown and make balloon animals.

So unfair!

Matt is creating his costume, which is him inside out. He is trying to use all kinds of leftover food to make him look gross.

Back at the school Miranda’s parents come and drop of the Day of the Dead stuff.

As soon as they are gone, Kate is her rude self again and forces Miranda to move the stuff far, far away. She is being rude rejecting the ancestors like that.

That night is the party, and Lizzie is having an awful time being the clown. She can’t create any balloon animals and ends up handing out “snakes” all night.

Lizzie is really mad at Kate messing with her like that and complaining to Miranda and Gordo when Matt walks over eating a tamale. He stole it from the day of the Dead decorations.

Miranda: You ate the food offering of the Day of the Dead? You stole the sacred meal of my dead ancestors?
Matt: It had cheese on it.

Now Matt has unleashed the spirits and they will seek their revenge. Part of which is turning his lemonade black and moldy.

Then Lizzie looks over at the skeletons

THEY’RE MISSING!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then Matt sees a giant bride and groom skeleton exit the caf. Oh no!

Next thing you know Matt’s been turned into dirt

Gordo into a bobble head

And Lizzie into a Zombie Clown

How terrifying!

How Will it End? You have to find out for yourself 😀

Hey everyone, this is Moreland from the future! It’s October 2019 and this year I dressed up Jane Austen as a Dia de los Muertos Calavera. As it fits perfectly with this post, I’m adding it in.