Victorian Tea

After Longwood Gardens, we headed to the DuPont Hotel for our tea. Kat was kind enough to let me use her room to change and also gave me a hairpiece which I used just for fun.



This was butter and lemon curd, but it looked like an egg yolk!

The huge dining room:



Meanwhile, Doug took Elena over to a kids museum and let her run around. They had a good time.







I have a fairly limited Victorian wardrobe, so I tried to take in my black watered silk Poe dress, which I haven’t worn for a while. Over it, I wore an antique pelerine. The little pin was a party favor.

Longwood Gardens

Before the Victorian tea in Delaware at the DuPont Hotel, last January, a bunch of us went to Longwood Gardens. There was costumed photography but because I was baby-wrangling and tired, I just went in Muggle clothes and changed later for the tea.

Elena was very recently walking and she held mine and Gloria’s hands and walked, and it was super cute.

Here’s some pics!



Elena wore her robot jumper, gifted to her by her namesake, Jasmin, all the way from England.

The little boots were from my Mom.

Victorian Christmas Tea 2019

Back to costumes! We’re finally at the Christmas season! (And it’s only May of the next year! Progress!)

These photos are from Caroline’s Victorian Christmas tea. I love her parties! Victorian is a huge hole in my wardrobe, so I rewore my 1840s plaid gown, but that’s ok because I like this dress. (I have since bought a couple Victorian gowns on a FB buy/sell group so I’m hoping to mix it up more in the future. Just don’t have much sewing time right now.)

Anyhoo, it was a fun party, here are photos!

(Mike and Gloria of In the Long Run Designs were experimenting with a new lens and I was happy with how these turned out. I also asked them to try and get a shot of my antique Victorian star comb. My earrings and necklaces are classic Dames a la Mode.