The Challenge for September was to share any Tea or Red Hat related projects.
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 On the left was a tea cup class I taught at the North Shore Miniature Society in Northbrook, IL. Some natural materials were used. Making a wattle fence and bee skep was part of the class. Always fun to see how students take the basics and personalize the project. I Created this tea shop (above) to display teapots.
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Ladies at Tea |
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From Judy Jazdzyk:
For this scene I used one of my mother-in-law's teacups! I'm happy with the layout, but those tiny glasses were hard to place on the table!!! |
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 I made this "Fairy bedroom in a Tea Cup" several years ago. My grandkids are fascinated by the idea that a Fairy Princess sleeps here.
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From Debbie Colombo:
All leprechauns by Barbara Meyer except for the one sitting on the chair in front, that is by Callie Brunelli. The little table set is by Lady bug. If you scroll in, you can see the leprechaun hiding in the back with his pot of gold! Little lambs on the right side were a gift from Ireland. |
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From Terry Unnold:
Thanks to the Create Monthly Challenge for inspiring me to work on this project. |
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From Natalie Maguire |
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 This is my finished version of Kathryn Grant-Abdinoor's 'Tea with Teddy and Me" Workshop, offered on Quarter Connection. I had so much fun with it. I was already into making pompom bears, so I added one of my white and pink bears next to the tan pompom bear. A friend and I worked on ours together, and she suggested that we flock the solid bear (it was supposed to be painted). That was great! We had both just learned how to do flocking; she loaned me some of hers. I had bought some Hello Kitty and My Melody canes at our local Sacramento, California Egg Show (usually in February or March), and I used one slice of each in the big picture on the left. I enjoyed making the baby doll in the cradle; I love dolls. I painted hearts on the teapot and the teacup and arranged them with the heart cake. I had pieces of plexiglass cut at Tap Plastics, to cover the front and the top. I used a braided rug I had made earlier, taking Ruth Stewart's "Braided Rugs" Registered Workshop at the Sacramento Houseparty in 2017 has been truly a blessing.
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From Cindy Bottasso:
Here’s my only tea cup thing and I made it years ago. |
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From Sue Ketchum:
I picked up this tea cup project at one of NAME'S Garage Sales and finished it. |
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From Jackie Browder:
I made the 1:12 scale purple flower teapot several years ago. It is hollow and has a removeable lid. The cake is very special. It is the first dollhouse item that I 3D printed after buying my printer! |
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 This scene on the left in a teacup made in a class with Barb Meyer. The photo above is a Red Hat scene made in a ring box! Class with Ladybug, Sue Thwaite.
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 I own more than 100 miniature teapots in all kinds of designs and I try to put one in every project. In this one below there is a fireplace, hutch, wall shelf, and center tea table all in quarter scale. It was lots of fun. The pink one (upper left) is a perfumery and I think it was part of a class. On the lower left - the tiny one with a house - I did with Sue Herber just for fun.
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 The two pictures on the left are from a 1/2” kit by Pam Junk called 1/2” Teapot Gardens (1996). The two pictures on the right are from a 1/4” kit by Karen Marsh in 1997 called 1/4 Full Cup Cage.
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From Debby Albert:
I found this cutie at my local thrift store. |
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From Linda Vallejos:
This teapot scene is from a class I took from Ginger Anderson at the 2018 National Convention in Charleston, SC.
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 The two pictures on the left are from Debbie Young's Around the World kit. The above picture is made inside a cup that had been from my mother’s dinnerware and it depicts things that I remember from her. She had a rose garden with a wishing well and a dog like that. She used to enjoy doing crossword puzzles.
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 The 1st is a kitchen in a tea pot. Interior kits are by Robin Betterley. The 2nd is a scene of the Prince after rescuing Rapunzel from her tower in the forest. Both were such fun to make!
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From Marilyn Ferkinhoff:
The first tea cup scene was made by Dave Ferkinhoff and the other 2 by me. The middle cup says Happy birthday on it so I put the cake on it. |
 My version of Debbie Young's Tea for Two kit. 
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From Rusty Smith:
Just remembered this 144th scale Teacup Mountain scene I made for Micro Minis a few years ago. |
 “Tea for Three” The furniture was made and painted by Karen Markland, the bears made by Paulette Svec, and the doll enjoying the tea party made by Cat Wingler. I won this at the Auction held at the 2009 National Houseparty in Indianapolis.
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From Cathy Wojewoda:
This is my teacup creation. |
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 Tea Time in 1" scale, before I succumbed to 1/4" scale, Tea in a tea box was a club project in 1/4 Scaleand Tea Rex is just a bit of pun-nonsense I made on a whim! (I'm such a fan of pun-ishment, properly administered!)
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 Tea with Alice (above) Victorian Ladies and Alice in a Tea Cup on the right.
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 This tea room on the right was made from a paper mache house. The cup scene above, was my rendition of one of the Seattle souvenirs. I won the red brick mansion one but was drawn to the rustic one so I made my own.
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 The first was done in a class given by Betty Dann . The others I made on my own as some of my first attempts at small scales . The one above has living plants in one of my mother’s tea cups . 
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 Debbie Young's Japanese Tea House
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From Georgia Queen and Jean Lierman |
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From Marie Weeks:
Here is my teddy bear tea party that I made several years ago. |
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 My Alice's Tea Party roombox.
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 A yellow and green tea cup with a dining scene.
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 A snow covered tea cup with two chairs and fireplace.
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 I found the cup in a secondhand shop and created the scene.
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From Lynne Hoffman:
Here is my Alice tea cup scene. Tired of reading, sitting on mushrooms, being late, and shrinking/growing, Alice decided to join the croquet game. She’s gotten fairly good a whacking the tiny hedgehogs through the wickets with her flamingo-
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From Barb Antol:
This is one of my favorite tea-related miniature projects. I used an old clock case I got at a garage sale for a couple dollars. Inside I put a half-scale tea scene. The clock doesn’t work, so I set it to the traditional 4PM tea time. |
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 Tea party friends going shopping after the tea.
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 I have several RH projects that I made when I joined the RH club that the museum in St. Louis sponsored. Cottage was a project from a NAME event and I it is a tea room with a RH lady in it. One is the outside and one is the inside. The other RH scene is in a hatbox. Bears are dressed up in RH regalia waiting for the tea. The last one is a tea cup that I made in a class taught by Barbara Ann Meyer 
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 The pictures I am submitting are from "The Tea Room." I made it with cardboard and printed it on both sides using my printer. I also made the furniture using my NAME Day kits - The Hutch - 2010, The Work Center - 2011, A Cart for all Reasons - 2013, Cozy Corner - 2014. It was my first attempt at making a 1/4" scale structure without using a kit. I was excited to be able to incorporate my NAME Day Kits. I also included a picture of the inside with the three of the NAME Day Kits. The Cart is on the walkway outside of the "The Tea Room."
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 This ¼” scene in a teapot was a project at the Strongsville Miniature Club (Ohio) back in 2000-2001.
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 I wanted to share with you my: "Ladies of the Red Hat Society" scene and my "Rose’s Tea Room" Scene for the Sept Tea themed miniature scene challenge.
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 Here are a few teacup scenes. The one on the top left is teacup mountain with teacups piled up and climbers going up the mountain. On the lower left is a little tea party scene and the ones on the right are a tearoom scene. 
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 “The girls” were going to meet here in red hats for their tea party. Unfortunately, COVID restrictions prevented this, so it is a pleasure that awaits them. I was able to make a mould from a paper plate and pour thin porcelain ones with transfers from Tee-pee Crafts fired on. These are 12th scale.
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From Erica Driscoll:
Here’s my Alice in Wonderland book scene. The kit was designed by Kathy Abdinoor for our club’s (Jersey Shore Mini Society)2012 Tea Day. I made the wonky teapot cake w Ruth Stewart’s kit, and added the dolls made by Julie Stevens.
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From Carolyn Eiche:
Attached is a photo of the very first teacup I did. |
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  When I was 11, my parents bought me my first dollhouse. A few years later, I began working at Littlethings (Irvington, NY). I worked there many Saturdays and would help the owner , Carol O’Connor , at the Mt. Kisco dollhouse show. I was even able to go to London one year to help out at the London Dollhouse Show! I stopped collecting/working on miniatures in my mid twenties. Then when my husband and I were living in Pound Ridge for a few years, I discovered Eileen Godfreys shop and instantly fell back in love with collecting/working on miniatures. I bought this little Victorian side opening two room dollhouse at Eileens shop a year before she passed away. I spent that summer painting the exterior. Then life got busy and out sat in our closet for over 10 years. My husband unexpectedly passed away in 2019. A few months ago, I decided to take this dollhouse out of the closet and finish it. I forgot how therapeutic dollhouses/miniatures are. I wasn’t sure what to do with the dollhouse since it’s just two small rooms. Then one day, I was remembering how my husband , Ellis , and I loved going to lady Mendles tea salon in nyc and it inspired me to turn it into a tea room /inn! I’m a teacher and am off during the summer so I finished it in July! I no will send pics of the interior in the next email. I’m not crafty so I unfortunately cannot make any minis but I love buying them and making them and putting them all together to create new scenes etc. 
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 A friend of mine found these unpainted tea pots and so we all had fun designing a scene. This is mine Alice and Wonderland Tea Party!
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 These pictures are of a Kids’ Make and Take I designed for the Atlanta Miniature Society’s show two or three years ago. I had the kids glue their terra cotta pots together, stick down the grass, hedges, gravel paths and gates (I printed them on sticker paper), make tiny chairs and tables from jewelry findings, paint a pencil eraser cake, glue tiny cookies onto sequin plates, plant trees and bushes in beads and even make a tiny topiary. These might be my two kids’ gardens, or one of them might be mine. It was really ambitious but everyone went home with a really cute (and free!) tiny garden.
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From Rita Crawford:
Teacart ready for a tea party! I made the wicker cart, cake and cookies years ago. |
 This one was my “first” teacup scene and it’s called “Dress Up”. The initial scene was created by Rosemary Zilmer a miniaturist from the Seattle area who started this infatuation in the Northwest. My husband purchased it for me as my first “show present” after our first year of producing the Seattle Dollhouse Show. Over the years, I’ve added all my tiniest dolls and teddy bears to the scene. My second cup includes a Linen cabinet made by Georgia Matuschak and Lori Ann Potts as well as a leather trunk by my friend Barb Kalty. 
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 The photo below is of the China Hutch where my teacups live. 
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From Dori Allard:
Attached is my photo of my most recent Tea Cup. I made it for a friend, copying the front of her house! |
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From Sunni Dixon:
I am in the Miniature Enthusiasts of Edmonton Club (Edmonton Alberta Canada)- I was in the process of taking photos and doing write-ups of my mini things to send to our up-coming Club's yearly Show in it's second virtual year!! (We have previously been physically having a big show and sale in September for the last 20 or more years.) Upon reading the NAME newsletter (love it) I saw you needed pictures of tea things, so here you are. |
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From Diana DeWalt:
Here is my teacup, I made it into a little quilt shop. These are fun, should do more. |
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 These are my tea cup scenes. The one in the blue and white cup is 1 ½ inches high. The one in the green cup was made in a class at a local vintage/antique store.
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 Here are a couple pictures of my 1/12th scale doll sitting on a tea cup yard. I did not make the porcelain part of the doll but I dressed and wigged. I crocheted all the teddy bears and other animals sitting on her lap and next to her.
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 3 Scenes in Tea Cups
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 I love being able to share some of my prized collection with others through the monthly Create Challenges! I love all things tea related! I have created a tea room and scenes in tea cups. I have a collection of mini tea pots, a collection of miniature tea carts (and two life-sized ones), a collection of life-sized tea cups waiting to be incorporated into a scene, and even a set of 12 Bespaq tea cups and saucers around which I plan to create a vignette. These photos are of my creation to join the tea cup and tea cart collections together. This is the first of hopefully many more. (I made the patio design from egg carton pieces cut to look like slate.)
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 This Tea for 2 is a Jane Markstrom scene. Can't remember if I won it or bought it. It was so long ago.
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From Paula Francis:
My submission for September is “When I Get Old…I Will Wear Purple”! It was one of my first attempts at quarter inch and has become one of my favorites because now I am old and I wear lots of purple:) |
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From Cat Wingler:
Here is a picture of one of my favorite pieces. I loved having Tea Parties with the Granddaughters and this kind of reminds me of that. |
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From Peggy Alvarez:
This cup was decorated by me in 2001. |
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From Judy Pick |
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 Created these from Gail Baillargeon designs of teapot. Dolls I bought are from the deceased Jan Stockwell in Canada.
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From Ann-Cary McLain:
My 1" scale tea room includes a tea kit from Lisa's Little Things, my hand-painted cups, saucers, and dishes on the back wall, and one of my samplers from an Annelle Ferguson kit.
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From Carole Ann Davis:
This Christmas Scene in a Tea Cup was done as a drawing prize for our local museum's Victorian Tea a couple of years ago. One of my most favorite minis.
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 I made this in a Mary Engelbreit teacup and saucer for my BMFF Cheryl for one Christmas.
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From Mary Chris Schultz:
Here is my favorite Fall teacup scene. |
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From Barbara Meyer: This is one of my old teacups I did years ago. |
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 It never fails, I sent this first pic to Cat yesterday for the clay challenge and it's the only pic I have of a teacup scene. I also have a scene with a couple of Red Hat ladies from Julie Stevens that I will share also. I'm having such fun with all the new stuff you gals keep coming with.
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