Oh frabjous day!

I just realised I didn't get around to posting about my Alice in Wonderland party yet :P. It's mostly because all the excitement for it ended right after and after all the planning and hectic setting up etc I didn't want to think about it anymore. Annoyingly, a few days later I found so many things I had bought/made for the party and forgotten about. Oh well.


Anyway, to begin I made invites that looked like playing cards and then rolled them up into scrolls and sealed with a sticky craft heart:

Next I made some wonderland creatures that I'd seen in the Disney cartoon:

Flowers with Faces

Tulgey Wood creatures

Rocking Horse Fly

And here are some other Wonderland Decorations:

Last but not least, the food! New dishes kept popping up even after the table was set until there was barely any room for the plates :-p

Wonderland Cookies 

Jam Tarts

Mini pizzas, mini doughnuts 

Alice Cupcakes

Drink Me bottle

I put 'Drink Me' labels on all the bottles of drink. Looked better on the glass bottles but didn't get a snap of that, oh well.

For the cupcakes I got Alice toppers from ebay. I set all the mini foods, (mini muffins, mini doughnuts, mini teapot, mini loaves) on a coffee table which was at the end of the dining table for all the little kids to sit at. Unfortunately, didn't get a pic of it in all it's glory. 

During the party I had two games. One was wink murder except instead of an inspector catching a murderer it was the Queen of hearts catching the knave of hearts so instead of killing people by winking, the knave was eating tarts (people) by winking at them. The winner got a Thornton's chocolate bunny.

The other game was pin the eye on the bandysnatch. I printed an online pic of a bandysnatch from the new Alice in Wonderland movie and put bluetack on the 'eye' to stick it. Whoever got it closest to the correct place won a pocket watch necklace as a prize which I bought on ebay.

At the end of the day I gave out "unbirthday presents" which I also bought on ebay. I was going to give sweets or chocolates but I figured we'd have had so many sweet things at the party, no one would want something sweet again so instead I bought some cute little handmade soaps from an ebay shop called soaps&favours. The soaps were perfect, everyone loved them and they smell gorgeous. Some people thought they were sweets :-p and I regret not going through with my idea of putting little tags on the boxes saying "wash with me" or "don't eat me".

 

I'd love to cater a Wonderland party so I could concentrate solely on the food. The cookies got rushed and I never got around to make the chequerboard sandwiches I wanted to make with white and brown bread sandwiches cut into squares and laid out together.

I also made chocolate lollipops shaped like roses which I forgot to take out and serve :-p. 

Other foods I wanted to make and didn't get time are toffee apples, a mad hatter hat cake, fruit kebabs and meringues. 

I made chocolate mousse in cupcake shaped bowls; I was going to make meringues to put on top with hundreds and thousands sprinkled on them. But it would have made a very rich desert and so I think I'll save that idea for individual deserts for a dinner party.

And so ends probably the last fancy dress party I'll ever organise for the family because no one else is interested in them anymore :-(. 

I LOVE theme parties and I am really going to miss them. I hope the family I eventually (I hope) marry into enjoys them too.