G goes Victorian

G decided for her 14th birthday she wanted a Victorian tea party. It ended up being more of a hot chocolate party...which they all seemed quite pleased with.

It's slightly shocking to me that she is 14. In a few years she will be exactly half my age. When she was born that seemed ages away, now it's around the corner. Though it was a rather sorrowful week for our family, I believe both my mother and I enjoyed having the distraction of party planning. She throughly enjoyed watching me make all the tea sandwiches.

G & Co.

I stayed up much to late the night before doing paper projects.

Snack spread.

The great petits fours disaster:

The party has started, the girls are out in the front playing croquet while M & C₁ work on making frosting.  Sadly the melted sugar base reached a temperature much to high and became a mass of hard candy. I came to the rescue - meaning a much simpler glaze was whisked together. However, with the girls already back inside, the rush left many cakes decidedly haphazard. Not that a group of 14 year-old girls care.

Thank goodness we don't have to do a Quinceanera next year.