kitchens, teas, and such things
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deird1Had my kitchen tea today.
For those non-Aussies in our audience:
A "kitchen tea" is broadly similar to a bridal shower. It involves people such as grandmothers, aunts, and female friends of the family having a party, playing light-hearted games, eating afternoon tea, and possibly giving gifts – usually of the kitchenish variety (such as measuring cups, recipes, or tea towels).
Mine was lovely.
The invites asked people to "take tea with Miss Deird", and to wear a hat and gloves for the occasion. And, so that we could "take tea" in truly fancy style, the tables looked like so:
And we had beautiful food to eat:
We played several "parlour games", and then everyone made me a wedding cake – out of lego; wedding toppers – also out of lego; and of course I had to cut it with the fiance, who wasn't there, so they made me a robo-fiance to cut the lego cake with me:
And here's the cake. Note that the bride is carrying flowers. And the groom is on wheels, to match robo-fiance:
In summary? I have the loveliest bridesmaids in the universe. And I am so very tired...
For those non-Aussies in our audience:
A "kitchen tea" is broadly similar to a bridal shower. It involves people such as grandmothers, aunts, and female friends of the family having a party, playing light-hearted games, eating afternoon tea, and possibly giving gifts – usually of the kitchenish variety (such as measuring cups, recipes, or tea towels).
Mine was lovely.
The invites asked people to "take tea with Miss Deird", and to wear a hat and gloves for the occasion. And, so that we could "take tea" in truly fancy style, the tables looked like so:
And we had beautiful food to eat:
We played several "parlour games", and then everyone made me a wedding cake – out of lego; wedding toppers – also out of lego; and of course I had to cut it with the fiance, who wasn't there, so they made me a robo-fiance to cut the lego cake with me:
And here's the cake. Note that the bride is carrying flowers. And the groom is on wheels, to match robo-fiance:
In summary? I have the loveliest bridesmaids in the universe. And I am so very tired...
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Date: 2013-07-28 11:22 am (UTC):-)
Ray.
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Date: 2013-07-28 04:37 pm (UTC)I noticed your post on LJ saying DW was having problems cross-posting and saying we may have missed some of your posts, and it spurred me to ask something I've been meaning to ask. As you don't allow comments there, do you actually read LJ posts by having them imported to your DW, or do you no longer read our posts?
Just that I realise that you used to comment quite often on my posts, but stopped when you moved to DW.
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Date: 2013-07-28 08:05 pm (UTC)I miss you guys lots...
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Date: 2013-07-28 06:30 pm (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2013-07-28 09:03 pm (UTC)Much nicer than a 'hen's night', which I also forwent (is that a word?)
Did you get pretty kitcheny gifts? :-)
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Date: 2013-07-28 09:14 pm (UTC)I'm going to have a hen's day, involving lunch at a winery. Should be nice.
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