Up Above The World You Fly, Like A Teatray In The Sky...

A Mad Tea Party

To Which You're All Invited

Down The Rabbit Hole

And Into My World For A Day

For A Wondrous Party

Celebrating All Our Un-Birthdays

There's To Be Teas and Cakes

And Music and Dance

So Join Us As We Take A Trip Into

Wonderland

-I Am-
Listening To: The Way I Am-Ingrid Michaelson
Reading: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You-Peter Cameron
Craving: Cupcakes Of Course!
Thinking About: What A Marvellous Tea Party This Is To Be!





-Curious Tracks-

1. Oh No-Andrew Bird
2. Expectations-Belle & Sebastian
3. Japan-Cocorosie
4. Lather-Jefferson Airplane
5. White Rabbit-Jefferson Airplane
6. Mad As Rabbits-Panic At The Disco
7. Hurdy Gurdy Man-Donovan
8. Cardigan Weather-Meg & Dia
9. So Nice So Smart-Kimya Dawson
10. Belle-Jack Johnson

-What It Is-



The wonderfully talented Vanessa Valencia of A Fanciful Twist has a tradition of putting on a Mad Tea Party every year and having other bloggers do the same. So please in addition to reading my post, go to Vanessa's beautiful blog, and read hers, and then look at the long list of others who are making Tea Party posts and visit their blogs! It's all sure to be amazing!






-Visually Enchanting-

I've read Alice In Wonderland many times, and have read many different versions, and every time I read it I find something I didn't notice another wonderful and imaginative image.





I see things in imagery. When I think, most often, it is in pictures, and because of that my words do not always come out as gracefully as others. I don't think so much of a word for something as all of the adjective that describe it visually. For instance, one day I was in the hallway, and my dad asked me where I was, I said "In that long narrow room, it's white, and there are doors." not being able to think of the word hallway, but being able to describe it as I saw it. For me most things are thought that way, and therefore described that way, and this is probably why I love photography so much, because I can get out a thought much better, a feeling, in a picture, than by saying what I wish to say in words that would make sense to all of you. lol.



So that's what I did. I found all of the brilliant imagery being Alice, and Mad Tea Parties, and cupcakes, and white rabbits, hatters, and door mice, and took photographs. My imaginings of a perfect Mad Tea Party.





-Wonderland-

All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretence
Our wanderings to guide

.......

Alice! A childish story take,
And, with gentle hand,
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's wither'd wreath of flowers
Pluck'd in a far-off land.
-An excerpt from the first poem in "Alice In Wonderland" By, Lewis Carroll



When I think wonderland I think soft faint colors, and brilliant waves of sparkle, and glow. Trees and flowers, afternoon bike rides, cups of rose hip tea, and lemon tea cakes. Each cake and pastry having a elegant tag that says ever so softly "Eat Me", and likewise each cup of marvelously flavored tea whispering "Drink Me".



I'm every so lucky to have quite a few tea shops in my area, and with the most wondrous variety of loose teas imaginable. Of course I will be having a few cups of tea today, what's a tea party without tea? And a pocket watch filled with butter and jam of course...



China Rose, Lemon Myrtle Green, Orange Chocolate Red, Chocolate Truffle, Berry White, so many amazing teas to choose from, and then of course there are the edible treats, cupcakes, and berries, shortbread cookies, and scones.





-"You Don't Know How To Manage Looking-Glass Cakes," The Unicorn Remarked. "Hand It Round First, And Cut It Afterwards."-

The nonsense of Alice, I think, is what makes it so brilliant, amazing, and real.
I'm heavily anticipating Tim Burton's version of Alice, he has forever been a huge impact on my creative life, so to speak.  He inspires me to create what I want, and not worry about what the world may think of it. He is sure to make Alice amazing.





Of course there's always the amazing Richard Burton, great actor. Who acted in a live action version of Alice in the nineteen-eighties. His daughter, Kate Burton, was Alice.




-Coffee and Tea-



Nursery Rhymes are a wonderful thing to read whilst drinking tea, especially those about tea.
And then, if you're me, you'll draw an illustration to go with the Rhyme, 'cause you almost always do.
Coffee and Tea.





Have a very happy un-birthday. Eat tarts, and fall down a rabbit-hole or two. It could become an adventure you know!







'Til Next I Post.