Vernal Equinox

March 20 2011 is officially the first day of spring! So I wanted to celebrate it by having a few friends over for a Tea Party, how lovely would THAT have been.  Well, winter wanted to give me one last blow and knocked me out with the most heinous sinus infection ever. EVER! I’ve been out of commission for…um…lets see….SIX days so far!!! How RUDE is that?!  In any case my plans will not be thwarted….just postponed. So even though there will be no tea cups clinking this weekend, I would love to share the invites I handed out for the event…

I ordered the saucers from The Vintage Teacup which is like browsing through the most wonderful china shop with no worries of breaking anything!  I wanted to do the writing using a pen made specifically for porcelain but I ended up using a paint pen.  The drying time for the speciality pen was 24 hours…I didn’t have that kind of time!  The place mats I scored at a local thrift shop, I couldn’t believe how perfect they were for the invites.  I used an inkjet compatable iron on material on the placement, but if I had to do it over again I would have opted to have the mats screen printed. Overall I really liked how they turned out!  I will be sure to post photos of the party when it happens…