2016 Holiday Tea

This year's holiday team had a fairly wide open theme, and since I was tired and stressed, and I just wasn't in a mood for corsets or stays, I decided to go 20s. I have exactly one 20s dress (I need more!!) but I had bought a vintagey sweater and modified the belt to closer resemble the photo of 20s sweater jackets I had. Added a new hat from Etsy, and some Forever 21 glasses (thanks for the find, Judy!) that resemble ones worn by Miss Fisher, and my new Miss L Fire shoes that sorta go. I also made use of a brooch and a 20sish necklace from Sweet Romance. Everything was slightly not matchy, but I liked the end look. And the tea was really fun! It was at Tea on the Tiber at Ellicott City. The food was delicious (those cinnamon scones!!) and the company was great as always!

Here's the look I was going for - funny, I didn't realize the lady in the brown sweater was wearing a pink dress with black trim! :-)













Oh, and I wore my great-grandmother's watch from the nineteens:



Oh, the food! That lemon cake!



Scones! Fruit! Cheese!







Jess and Judy wore 20s too!



I loved Amanda's cheerful plaid dress!



Kristin brought her sweet new baby and hubby as well! It was little E's first costume event! At least outside the womb!







Ellicott City had pretty holiday lights:



Group pic:

Outlander Holiday Tea

So our holiday tea ended up being Outlander themed - we thought it would be fun to have a time-travel theme and have everyone come in either 1740s or 1940s because those are the two period in the show. We opened it up to 1840s too - and we had a lot of really fun costumes. We ended up at an Irish pub (not quite Scottish) for late lunch/early dinner and they restaurant was nice and empty and we had the place to ourselves. It was a really fun afternoon!

(I posted about my outfit here: http://costumersguide.blogspot.com/2015/01/outlander-inspired-outfit.html)













Gloria and I were twinsies! Even our shoes!






























Kat's pic:


Gloria's pics:

Holiday Tea 2013

A bunch of us met up for tea in Annapolis after Christmas and much fun was had by all. I wish I'd take more pictures of my outfit, but honestly I was so tired after the insanity that was December, that I just look exhausted. I didn't have the time/energy to put on makeup, which I should have done, but it was a cold rainy day so I'm lucky I got dressed! Also, though I put rollers in my hair, of course the curl didn't stay well, so it wasn't a great hair day for me. Oh well. Oh, and those it's hard to see, I wore one of Taylor's collet necklaces over the chemisette. (https://www.etsy.com/shop/damesalamode)

I wore my old embroidered Target curtain drawstring dress but added the chemisette made my Stephanie's mom, which was great to wear since it was cold. And I wore my new Spencer jacket. I also wore my cheap $10 flats from Amazon which I believe Taylor had pointed out. Since it was rainy and yucky I wasn't ruining anything expensive.

It was a really fun time and I'm glad we were able to squeeze it in.

Most of these shots are Gloria and Mike's.

Annapolis holiday tea

I organized a holiday tea at Reynold's Tavern in Annapolis this past weekend.  We missed those of you who couldn't make it, but the 6 of us who did, had a lovely time!  The food was delicious, the company was good (I don't think we stopped chatting the whole time and it flew by!), we had a Yankee Swap gift exchange where everyone kept the gift they picked...  It was so fun! Here are some pictures!

(Costumes were "Georgian" so we could have people wear regency or 18th century.)