Garden Party

Yesterday was my Mum's 70th Birthday, so I hosted a garden party all day for her family and friends to visit. Fortunately we were blessed with a beautiful sunny day. Guests were invited to drop round between 11am and 5pm (I handmade the invites but forgot to take a piture!!) and my sister and I served salads, sandwiches, a selection of cakes, cream teas, tea,coffee and champagne all day. My mum had made up a photo albumn using all old photographs and featuring every guest that had been invited. Some of these photo's were really old, and every one loved looking at it. My Grandad (Mums, Dad) had been a woodcutter (working on the estate at Wentworth) for most of his life. This must have been extremely hard work, but when he came home at night, he also kept a small holding, mainly crops which he ploughed with a horse and cart. The photo's of this could have been straight out of Larkrise to Candleford. After 5pm we were joined by a few very close friends and although Mum, my sis and I were all shattered, we continued on until 11.30pm!! My 2 very best friends M and L were fabulous. They helped clear everything away.

For the Garden Party, I dug my Grandma's Tea Set out of the loft. Why did I ever put this in the loft in the first place??!! It has 12 cups and saucers and 12 side plates and it is so pretty. It not going back into the loft


Sorry about the bright light in the corner, but I prayed for the sun to shine and it did. This was taken at about 6.45 am just as the sun popped over the fence. (We did place a warning on the trampoline stating that it was used by pensioners at their own risk!!). I also brought out the 2 crochet blankets I had recently completed, as a bit of a joke really (as hubby says they look like they should be in an old folks home). It amused me all day to see the older ladies pop them over their knees when the sun went behind a cloud. My cousin had her eye on the St Ives blanket!!

I got chance to use some of my lovely old table cloths. Most were my Grandma's, but my sister bought me this for £5.00 from a small antique shop a whoile ago. On the label, it said that it had been embroidered in an air raid shelter in 1942 near Chatham Docks. It is so beautiful and I wonder about the lady who made this every time I use the cloth.

The birthday girl arrived at 8.15am in a limo !!!courtesy of a friend of my sister. She had thought that I was going to pick her up, so she had a shock when this turned up.

I took photographs of her friends and family throughout the day, and the dancing queen printed these off and made them them into a little albumn before she went home. Several of her friends rang me when they got home to thank us for a wonderful afternoon. It was really hard work - but I enjoyed every minute of the day, and I know she did too.