{"id":746,"date":"2008-07-03T07:18:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T11:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2008-07-01T12:21:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T16:21:45","slug":"mad-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Mad Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/snailgirls-150x103.jpg\" alt=\"Snail Girls\" title=\"Snail Girls\" width=\"150\" height=\"103\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>A Fanciful Twist&#8211;who, from the number of exclamation points on her blog, probably takes amphetamines to <EM>calm down<\/EM>&#8211;recently threw a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/afancifultwist.typepad.com\/a_fanciful_twist\/2008\/06\/the-time-has-co.html\">Mad Tea Party<\/a>&#8221; costume extravaganza.  She made all manner of paper and scrap fabric decorations, and the resulting carnival atmosphere is simply amazing.<\/p>\n<p>This would be a fun party theme, whether or not you choose to do something as elaborate.  eHow has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_2057310_plan-mad-hatter-tea-party.html\">list of suggestions<\/a> for planning a Mad Tea Party, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-in-wonderland.net\/shop\/tea-party.html\">this shop<\/a> offers a selection of Alice-themed party supplies (some are rather cutesy; beware).  Obviously, you can always look to the books for additional inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>I like tea parties because you can serve lots of little nibbly foods, many of which can be made in advance or purchased.  You don&#8217;t have to worry about keeping dishes hot, and guests can select whatever bits suit them.<\/p>\n<p>You can extend the drink theme beyond mere tea, of course.  Years ago when I worked for Disney, I gave some of my more favored co-workers bottles of homemade cranberry cordial with fancy &#8220;Drink Me&#8221; tags.  Any sort of unusual tipple&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/SPICED-ORANGE-WINE-241733\">orange wine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratsplace.com\/rogov\/joys_ratafia.html\">apricot ratafia<\/a>, and so on&#8211;would be a good choice for a similar presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Dress up in a top hat or pinafore (or, um, both, I guess) and enjoy yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fanciful Twist&#8211;who, from the number of exclamation points on her blog, probably takes amphetamines to calm down&#8211;recently threw a &#8220;Mad Tea Party&#8221; costume extravaganza. She made all manner of paper and scrap fabric decorations, and the resulting carnival atmosphere is simply amazing. This would be a fun party theme, whether or not you choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}