Thank you ever so so so so sooooooo much for a deliciously magical Mad Tea Party!
I had so much fun. I visited all the parties by last Sunday evening, and was simply blown away by everyone's parties. Everyone really had the Mad Tea Party mood in full wonderland enchantment swing.
I was delighted at each visit.
How can I thank you enough for joining in?
I'll tell you what, I am already inspired for jumping into my ship of dreams, and thinking about what we can conjure up for our Halloween party!
Parties always seem far away, but then all of a sudden it is a week before the event, and we sit there wondering where the time has gone.
Isn't it so true?
So this weekend, I am going to keep setting a special tea place for myself, and keep the party mood alive with ideas bubbling for fall.
I feel a little bit of the Halloween haunting mood trying to pull my toes. I really should pay attention. Mombie and I always talk about how we should do so much in summer for fall and Christmas. As the holiday crunch always seems so intense from September to December.
Still, when it is so hot here, and I am sipping iced tea in my garden tub, listening to vintage songs, really living summer to the fullest, I have a hard time thinking about the holiday season.
Although, just typing the word fall, made me get butterflies in my stomach......
I don't know about you, but I have had a very busy week. Running here and there, doing 5,000 projects at home. Moving huge furniture to and fro.
I am in this massive house and garden mode these days, just loving here, in this moment in time. Which Mister Lovee and I admit, is a lovely time in life. One for the memory vaults.
I also promise to tell you about my new cottage. The building months, how I will use it as a little hideaway, how it came to be, and how there are still more big projects going on in the garden. If you care to know, that is.
Goodness knows, you might be totally bored by me, and not want to hear any of it.
However, it is better than me coming here everyday and chatting about my dreams from the night before. I do that to my Mister. He seems to be very interested. I mean, he keeps perfectly quiet while I talk and talk. Oh wait, he sleeps through it ;)
haha!
Don't worry, I won't go down that path, hehe!
For tonight, I have a plan.
Mister Lovee brought me some delicious books this week (he always brings me thrifted treasures that I adore). Some excellent art books came to me, via he, and I am going to curl up, and be a perfectly despicable girl (a term I use often for myself).......
With no guilt about jumping into a fluffy bed (hang on to your tiara), jammied to the nines, and turning pages, whilst sipping lemon iced tea... yumm!
I can't wait to share another frocked Mad Tea event with you next year!!
Keep the lace and ruffles handy!
And thank you again, for a beyond wonderful Mad Tea Party season, 2011!!
Much love from all of us over here at A Fanciful Twist!!!
xoxo
ps: The winners (selected by random number generator) for an 8" x 10" print from, my shop, are numbers 194 & 36. That's Linda Diane, and Renee!! Hooray hooooray! Do please e-mail me with your choices.
Happy Happy, Joy Joy!
pss: Floomplink means thank you in Gnome. I promise. A gnome told me. I didn't just invent it. No really ;)
psss: I will leave the Mad Tea Partiers list, in my left hand sidebar, for several more days.
Gracias admiro tu trabajo y me encanta todo lo que haces hermoso blog, un saludo desde Bogotá, Colombia!
Posted by: Catalina Arciniegas | July 01, 2011 at 04:43 PM
I had a fantastic time, too....thank you so much for hosting this event every year and sprinkling some of your eternal magic into our lives! So nice to have an excuse to play...and imagine...and dream :D
I look forward to a perfectly spooky Halloween Party to come....heeheeehee!!
Posted by: Cameron | July 01, 2011 at 06:12 PM
I have enjoyed my first visits and look forward to the rest of the parties on the list! This has been a great mad tea party year, hasn't it?
by the way, I loved those shoes your mom made for you, from the last post!
I am already filling up the idea cup for the Halloween party. Watch out!
xo
Posted by: Chris | July 01, 2011 at 06:53 PM
No, we want to hear all of it! Well I do anyway...and seriously I am dying to know, do you actually have chickens!? Those lucky winners (jealous) are going to have a hard time choosing, you have so many wonderful prints! And by the by, thank you for being such an awesome party hostess, I know it is a lot of work! If you send me your address and favorite type of tea (we have pretty much everything you could think of at Chantilly) I will send you a little hostess gifty, yay!
Posted by: Alia | July 01, 2011 at 09:21 PM
Vanessa, thank You for the Mad Tea Party! There would be no tea party without you. Thank you for so much inspiration the whole year long and for your fanciful words and friendship. Have a safe and wonderful holiday weekend! Twyla
Posted by: two crazy crafters | July 01, 2011 at 10:03 PM
Floompink and a Purrrrrmerow right back at you!!!! I speak Gnome too as there are several in the garden. They confirm that with slight exceptions for regional dialect differences you are correct in your choice of Floompink as meaning "thank you". Though out here in California we tend to say more often Floompinkued. I think the "ued" ending might have something to do with the surfer influence. The Purrrrmerow is Cat speak for "I-am-super-contented-and-I-send-you-many-meowrumbles-eye-squinting-paw-needing-belly-scratching-happy-gratitude-filled-purrs!
It is the end of the day here and I risk becoming too sentimental but I want to express to you how full my heart is at the moment. Thank you so much for EVERYTHING you do... for your superfragilisticexpeallidocious blog party, your fun silly fanciful self that lights a wonderful inspirational flame for others to follow... why? Well to learn how to have more fun in life (what it is all about in my opinion!). For your free creative spirit that is a wonder to all... You are lovely and in the vast land of internet blogs I am finding to my surprise my kindred family out there, something I never though I would, and you are by far a principal member. I appreciate you so much!!! Thank you Vanessa,
All my silly creative, off-the-wall- love,
Tricia and the kitties
Posted by: Tricia Fountaine | July 01, 2011 at 10:23 PM
Your tea party was great fun as always! Thank you for being such a lovely host! And you are right about how quickly things come around-this year I was completely unprepared and thought I had another week, then realised it was THAT DAY! and I hadn't done anything! I did have ideas-very vague ones, but it all worked out ok in the end. We wee out for the day and I was just putting the final full stops and corrections to my post when our guests arrived!
Fun fun!
Have a lovely time curling up with you art books. Sounds perfect.
x
Posted by: Sarah | July 02, 2011 at 01:41 AM
You always throw such amazing parties, with such finesse and flare.
It is almost time to sort through my Halloween things and see what I have. There is always more things to collect and save.
Have a great 4th of July weekend.
Thank you for all you do for the world to see.
Posted by: Miss Linda | July 02, 2011 at 03:58 AM
The party was great fun, Vanessa! Thank you so much for hosting ~ again! I hear ya about doing stuff in the summer for fall and the holidays. I actually did get a start already this year and made up a few things that will be gifts for Christmas. I did miss the heat and humidity deadline to get into the attic and try and clear through some of that stuff. I'm hoping for a couple of cool days so I might be able to still get to it before fall.
Posted by: Kathy @ Creative Home Expressions | July 02, 2011 at 04:32 AM
As always we had the best time at your party, and the parties that spun off.
We did not sleep for days although time went unnoticed - it moved quickly and stood still all at the same moment.
We will get through a bit more of summer's heat before we begin to plan for Halloween, but count us in!
Thank you thank you thank you in all languages.
Posted by: DogsMom | July 02, 2011 at 05:34 AM
hi my sweet fairy vanessa!!!!
i just posted the video of the mad tea party in Pumpkinland and the 2 winners!!!
My pumpkins and my little fairies and elves would looooove to send you a little gift from greece! Will you accept it? if yes please e mail me to write me your address!!!
THANK YOU!
Posted by: eleni | July 02, 2011 at 05:36 AM
Can you hear me screeeeeeaming all the way in a Bizarre Arizona?!!! Make that all the way in a Fanciful Mad Wonderland of a Vanessaful Arizona?!!! I am sending floomplinkalinkalinkness galore to you for the 8x10 print I won! I have 2 of your lovely lady portraits, and I would over-the-top love to add another and make it a trio. I will have a discussion with Camellia and Flora, and we will decide who shall join us.
Oh, you naughty, wicked, wondrous girl. You do love to toy with us! Ha ha! I think the drool smudges we leave on your posts should be evidence enough that we most certainly DO want to experience all of your other goings on and project-lisciousness! Oh, but the problem is we want to see them NOW, no, make that last week!!! : D Oh, but thou, the worker of all things magical, knows that anticipation is lusciousness in and of itself. Thusly and so, we shall wait for our ever-so-lovely enchantress to grant us another peek into the world we all would love to be our own . . . . We love you, Vanessa!
Posted by: Linda Diane | July 02, 2011 at 07:57 AM
Thank you for a wonderful time!!! My kids and I can't wait for the Halloween Party!!! Have a lovely weekend enjoying your books!!!!!
hugs
lisa by the bay
Posted by: Lisa | July 02, 2011 at 10:22 AM
I can't wait for the Halloween Party. I already have ideas for that bubbling around.
OOh..I can't wait to see your magical new cottage. Have a Happy July 4th
Posted by: Shell | July 02, 2011 at 12:24 PM
Thank you so much for hosting such a beautiful event. I had so much fun getting everything together. I am already plotting and planning for the Halloween Party myself. Did you know Michael's is already stocking some fall/halloween stuff. Crazy, but getting me in the mood. ;)
I can't wait to hear more about the cottage and what all you have going on.
Blessings!!
Posted by: Betsy Bailey | July 02, 2011 at 01:00 PM
Floomplinks to you dear V!!!
Posted by: Papillon Bleu UK | July 02, 2011 at 01:40 PM
My dear Vanessa! You must be exhausted! Thank you again for being the hostess with the mostess. :) I had a grand time! Big congrats to your lucky giveaway winners - I'll bet they will have a fantastic time selecting a lovely print from your shop. :) I've been trying to relax just a bit this holiday weekend - although I will be cooking like a mad woman tomorrow in preparation for Monday! Then...who knows! I am definitely looking forward to fall - can't wait for the Halloween fete. Hope you and yours have a DELIGHTFUL holiday!!! xoxo Theresa
Posted by: Theresa | July 02, 2011 at 03:18 PM
What fun! Oh Miss Vanessa, it was indeed a wonderful tea party...phew! Thankyou so much for hosting such a delightful soiree...I did enjoy myself. And, are you kidding me? I want to hear ALL about your projects going on in the garden and how your little cottage came to be...you are beyond wonderful and I adore you to the moon and back x
Posted by: tina | July 02, 2011 at 06:28 PM
well, you must be EXHAUSTED...i have been peeking and sneaking and stalking and sometimes commenting and sometimes not in writing, but always out loud oohing and aahing at all the tea party madness.
NEXT YEAR i am in like flynn, as I have to have to bring Cowboy's idea to fruition (I was just too sad this year to tackle it).
Annnd, how very sympatico....i am dreaming of fall, of cooler days and pumpkin spice, of leaves falling and fires burning, of moonglow nights and apple crisp mornings, of needing a blanket to sit in the swing and read, early mornings and apple cider, of hearty casseroles and fresh baked pies....
and owls and black glitter and potions in glass and cauldrons bubbling and magic and of course a certain enchanted halloween soiree!
love you veevala <3....xoxxoviixoxoxox roo
Posted by: Rhonda Roo | July 03, 2011 at 08:12 AM
oh my... the festivities were grand ~ starting at your little cottage and running from blog to blog & trying not to bee late..
but I must say I did put on a little weight by eating all the sweets & treats but each 1/8th of pound was happy to bee gained since there was sooo much more that was gained by exploring all of the wonderful wonderlands of blOZville...my little tea wasn't as grand as I wanted it to bee, due to the weather (it rained three days straight before the party)...
I will make it a point to start brewing & planning now for the Halloween festivites... I'll make a spell so I won't wait to the last minute to get things completed... Can't wait till next years "Mad Tea Party" either...this too I will beegin to start planning soon ~
like the saying goes "don't put off till tomorrow what can bee done today"
Well I'm off on my broom hehehehe again thank you miss vanessa the fairies, gnomes & pup boyz thank you too...for all your kindness, creativity and sweetness...
have a honey of a night ~
marlene / mIzZ hONeY bEe
;O) xox
Posted by: Marlene | July 03, 2011 at 03:36 PM
You do not bore us, my dear miss fancyfloomplynkle! We are on the edge of our seats with anxious, deliciously anticipated curiosity about this new playhouse of yours- so spill the beans missy! And happy summer to you and your boys :)
Posted by: magickwyrds | July 03, 2011 at 03:37 PM
Floomplink, hahha...love it! And oh my gosh...fall, I can't even think of it yet. But it is nice to get started on the holiday stuff early, so it's not such a rush and you can enjoy it too, I agree!
Jamie :)
Posted by: A Forest Frolic | July 05, 2011 at 05:06 PM