More Anne Tea :) ........

If you want to do your own Anne of Green Gables Tea event, you could check out the Anne Cookbook and the Anne Treasury from the library, full of wonderful ideas and recipes.

Our menu included:

1. Raspberry Cordial

2. Pear Scones with Plum and Peach Jelly

and since it was Fall, I made

Honey/Maple Butter

3. Chicken Cresents

Orange Cream Cheese on Pumpkin Bread

Cucumber on Dill/"Carrot" Bread

4. Mrs. Irvings Shortbread

Fruitcake

Gingersnaps

Jellied Tart Cookies

5. Plum Pudding

(as the girls served this, they set a little felt mouse on each table:)

That was alot of food, but my teas are always five courses,

so that is what I do.

Our very own Anne.........

At the beginning of tea, she wandered through the room reading "The Lady of Chalot", as her sister played the piano.......very nice

Her eldest sister graced us with readings from the book.......
Tables and such before ladies arrived......

The little brown booklet by each plate is the menu with "Anne" quotes for each food item, as well as a collection of "Household Tips" from the Treasury book which were quite entertaining.

Anne again.......how cute is she!!!!

Our little tea guests......

I cannot believe my head is already spinning for the next tea....

A Nutcracker Tea

Our Anne girl and her sister are doing a ballet number and our menu goes along with each scene in the Nutcracker Ballet. Stahlbaum's Christmas Party, Nutcracker Battles the Mouse King, Land of Snow, Land of Sweets and Back Home Again. Five courses, I am having soooo much fun, I will share it with you as I go.

Must go, lot's of work to do, we are also

making more lovelies to sell at the tea:)

Proverbs......

Why, WHY, do I know so many "Christians" like this....

Proverbs 6:12-14

A worthless, wicked man:

1. constant liar (gossip, slander, etc.)

2. rebellious (towards God's ways)

3. stirring up discontent (among us!)

Proverbs 6:16-19

7 things God HATES!!!:

1. Hautiness...........try being HUMBLE in our views, opinions

2. Lying......tell the TRUTH, stop making things up

3. Murdering.......in any FORM!! Replace this with LOVE.

4. Plotting evil........plot how to be HOLY instead

5. Eagerness to do wrong......be EAGER to do what is RIGHT

6. A false witness......again, TRUTH

7. Sowing discord/strife among brothers.......try PEACE for a change, maybe agree to disagree!!

We must strive to please God and be more like him, and in doing so, we will gain these positive attributes, rather than being the

kind of person God hates.....

Moving on......

Here are some more pictures of the Anne of Green Gables Tea........

another peek at our store.....

Look at these young ladies all dressed up!!

Look at those "puffed sleeves"!! She made that dress just for this tea...... More decos.......

Encouragement Today.......

"For the Lord is our judge,

the Lord is our lawgiver,

the Lord is our King;

He WILL save us!"

Isaiah 33:22

"Therefore since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumberance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the JOY set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you

will not grow weary and lose heart."

Hebrews 12:1-3

Jesus looked at His suffering in His future not as suffereing but as the JOY that would follow after the suffereing. Keep our eyes upon Jesus!!

Election Day......

Praying today.....

Praying for the elections.....

Praying and being oh so THANKFUL

that GOD is

AWESOME

ALL POWERFUL

ALWAYS, ALWAYS IN CONTROL

AND ESPECIALLY

that God is

STILL ON THE THRONE!!

We as Christians can REST in KNOWING without a doubt no matter what happens after today....

GOD KNOWS EXACTLY

WHAT HE IS DOING!!

PRAISE GOD FROM

WHOM ALL

BLESSINGS FLOW!!

Ohhhh Sweet Fallness........

I just cannot stop decorating.......

Miss Harvest Bunny with her

little quilted pumpkin....

Little pumpkins, sunflowers and leaves everywhere......

Happy to have chrysanthemums leftover from tea....
Favorite Apple plates.....

Mmmmm......the colors.......

Even a Fall Salad.......

I tried the Rice Salad in the October/November issue of Mary Jane's Farm....it is amazing!! I just added some spinach. Served with a Pumpkin

Roll and Dilly Beans.

For Pumpkin Rolls I replaced the mashed potatoes in my

Potatoe Roll recipe...it worked!

Plums!!!

Awhile back, one of the girls in our Titus 2 group

brought lots of plums from her tree!!

Have you ever used a steam juicer?? I LOVE mine!! All you do is rinse the fruit and put it into the top basket there, it steams and juice comes out the little hose, right into the jar. It is sooo hot, you can

just put a lid on and it will seal.
Beautiful Plum Juice!!
Beautiful Plum Jelly from the Plum Juice!!

However, I do have a confession to make....I could not find a recipe for Plum Jelly anywhere. After making plum jam that came out realllly thick, I decided plums have alot of natural pectin, so should not need pectin for jelly. So, I decided we would follow directions for Grape Jelly. Similar shape and color, riggghhhhtt??? This was for our Titus 2 meeting. I, the older woman, was showing them how to make jelly. Directions said to boil until it reached the stage where the juice is clinging to the spoon and drips off twice....2 drips. We stirred and boiled and stirred and boiled. Finally, we decided to take a break from that, have our lunch and come back to it. After lunch, it had hardened soooo hard, I almost broke the wooden spoon trying to remove it from the pan!! It was quite amazing and we laughed very much!!!

So, later I followed the pectin directions, using pectin, still for Grape Jelly. You only boil that for 2 minutes. :) It made the above jelly, which is very thick, but it is jelly!! So, we had a fun class that day....

learning how NOT to make Plum Jelly!!

Autumn Anne Tea..........

As you entered...............

A "plain brown" teapot and "chrysanthEmums"..........

The tables........pumpkin spice votives in glass teacups, fall colored leaves tied around a napkin with raffia for place cards........Centerpieces were fall colored cocktail napkins and on some tables plaid napkins with a tall pumpkin spice candle sprinkled with leaves, cinnamon sticks and dried sunflowers.....

Mmmmm, we served "plum pudding" for our last course.

Lot's of pumpkins, sunflowers, leaves, doilies......all to ad an old fashioned harvest feeling.

Our little store....breads and pies, pincushions and bunnies......

pillows and gloves, jams and jellies, homemade soap......

Then the tea was done....ladies went home......and it was time for a Harvest Party with friends!!

We just left the decorations, moved things around a little and enjoyed!

Later some special music and then some good ol' dancing!!

Just having fun......

some favorite faces....one of us couldn't hold still!! :)

My most favorite face....my very own sweetie!!

I will have more tea pics later.....from friends....some shots of the girls serving hopefully!! I cannot believe I missed them!! One was dressed as Anne and they all were dressed for the time.....also, one of the girls did readings and one played songs from the soundtrack...all and all it was a lovely time!!

Class today...........

The girls in my Home-Making class

finished their pillowcases......aren't

they ADORABLE!!!

Two Days Later......

Soap gets uncovered, and then.....
Cut into bars and ready to cure! On the board is Lavender Vanilla, top of basket is Cinnamon

Clove and lower basket is Oatmeal Cinnamon.....mmmmmmm!!

They will be for sale at my tea and later in my Etsy shop.

Tea Preparations.......

A perfect day of tea preparations.......

Watching Anne of Green Gables while stirring soap....... :)
Inspiration for an Anne Tea!!

Soapmaking.....

Gathering supplies......

Yummy scents.......Favorite recipe.......


I Love this recipe!! It is a chart that tells you proportions to what you have. If I happen to have 1 cup of lye, it tells me I need 8 C of fat and 1C of liquids!! I Love it!

Autumn in the High Desert........

Beautiful picture.................
But definately a soup day!!
I am thankful to have a warm cozy home to look out from at the snow....