Afternoon Tea Party

Afternoon tea today for Mum's birthday.

Chips, crackers and dips

Sausage rolls and party pies,

Cheese and spinach savouries.

Homemade gluten-free sausage rolls

(yum)

Sandwiches: egg, chicken, pesto, cream cheese & sultanas

(gluten-free & regular varieties)

Blueberry Almond Birthday Cake GF

Swedish Chocolate Cake GF

Caramel Creams GF

100s and 1000s biscuits GF

Armenian Nutmeg Cake GF

Choc Chip Cookies

Peach and Date slice

Chocolate Cupcakes

Everyone brought a plate of food or drink,

I made most of the gluten-free foods.

We decorated the table with some butterflies

(cut from an op-shop copy of Pride & Prejudice)

and pretty labels for each dish.

I pulled out all my pretty vintage china

and a vintage embroidered tablecloth.

I bought some pretty pink-edged lizianthus,

and my aunt & co. surprised me with a lovely

arrangement of proteas in a gorgeous pot.

(a late "thinking of you" gift for my surgery!)

It was lovely to see most of the family again,

there were about 20 of us, and to celebrate Mum's birthday

A good way to spend a winter afternoon.

And a good way to spend this winter evening:

eating leftovers and watching To Kill a Mockingbird.