The Tea Party – Country Piecemaker’s Winter Luncheon, Saturday, Jan. 10, 09

Posted By on January 11, 2009

We had a delightful time at our Winter Luncheon – at Becky’s Tea Cafe in Powhatan, VA.  I had the best chicken panini sandwich ever (I was nice and saved half of my sandwich for my DH – however I wasn’t totally altruistic.  I wanted to have room for the hazelnut cheesecake.  I saved half of that for DH too.  🙂  I don’t want to forget to mention the HAPPY TEA (cinnamon and apple.)  It was both pretty and aromatic.  It tasted great too.  We got to choose the tea cup that we wanted to drink out of.  I really enjoyed that part!

Now for the FUN PART.  We were supposed to create hats – if we wanted to (and if we didn’t want to, there was an ample supply of tea party hats there for us to select and wear….sound like fun?  Yes, it WAS!)

Every MADE UP HAT had a story.  My hat was named SILVER BELLES (that was the name of our quilting group that created the orphan quilt blocks.)  In the spirit of  Bonnie Hunter’s inspiration for us to REUSE and  RECYCLE  my hat was ONCE LOVED prior to my acquisition.  I got it at the Powhatan Antique Store.  I also decrated the hat with Christmas ribbons, flowers and bells….all silver, of course.  It was quite a lot of fun.  Catherine is holding my hat in one of the pictures so that you can see the back of it.  (With cats in the family, it is a miracle that the hat survived long enough to make it to the luncheon!)

I wish that I could remember all of the hat stories – but I do remember that Nancy used Christmas poinsettias on a man’s straw hat – and Colleen LOVES Sun Bonnet Sue Quilts – hence her very cute sun bonnet.  Catherine collects EVERYTHING – and she wore one of her antique WORKING sewing machines.  Michelle actually made her entire hat with the help of her children and it was lovely!  Merci made her gorgeous white fabric flowers that she had placed on her black hat – she looked like a fashion model….really.  There she was – so elegant and wonderful, and I was lucky to have my clothes on right side out!  🙂 LOL  I am known by some of my friends (and mostly by my family)  as a fashion disaster.

I thought all of the hats were creative and wonderful.  By popular vote, Michelle won the hat decorating contest.  Her children helped her make her hat – you will love it – look below for all of the pictures!  We had to turn our backs so that the vote could take place – and that is how I came to take a picture of the cute little lace cafe curtains.

Merci made a wonderful poem to THANK our long arm quilters, Sara, Nancy, and Karen, for quilting all of the baby quilts that we donated.  SHE MADE GOLD LONG ARMS for them.  That was such a wonderful and creative gesture.   I wish that I would have taken a picture of the poem….but somehow that didn’t get accomplished!

We had a wonderful time and were showered with gifts – it is so much fun to have creative friends.

Here are the pictures of us at the tea party – wearing our hats!  ENJOY!

 

 

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  1. Catherine says:
    January 12, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Look at that ooh-la-la lovely lady with the red hat and pearls, I surely bet she’s a load o’ fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks as though a great time was had by all, just as it should be………………………

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