Omiyage Gifts from the Tea Party

And now to show you the adorable, handcrafted gifts made by the talented ladies at the tea party last weekend:

First off, two gifts from Bren:  A tiny explosion box holding a little porcelain dish (sugar cup?); and a calendar album holding tea bags in each pocket as well as two spoons of Sympatea:

The adorable kokeshi doll calendar images were printed from http://creativemamma.com/free-printables/.  Check it out!!! L-o-v-e It!!!

Dori made two boxes from the WeRMemories Envelope punch filled with eye candy bling, lemon and lime bars from The Cookie Company and Big Island chocolate dipped cookie bars and a handful of kisses!!

BTW, the very next day I picked up the Envelope Punch at J's KnickKnacks!

Gail made this pink and silver gift bag which she used the Papertrey Favor-it Box 4 Die.  In it she places some tea bags and peppermint candy.  The back of the bag had a poem to join her for tea on New Years Day! It's soo pretty!!

In celebration of the Chinese Year of the Horse, Mel created this beautiful Lantern and tea holder.  She also gave us Zig Wink of Stella Brush.  We had lots of fun playing with it.

I wish I could show you the work involved in creating the Chinese lantern.  It's GORGEOUS!!  I'm still uncertain how she created it.

Finally, we each got this cute little Hawaiian Favor from Byron who did not attend:

We all gushed over it.  So cute, huh!!! Thanks, By!!  Here is what it looks like without the topper:

Thank you to my wonderful tea friends for a fun afternoon!!

The Tea Farm Cafe

This year we selected The Tea Farm Cafe in Pucks Alley, Honolulu, for our Christmas Tea.  I googled new tea places and this one popped up with good reviews by Yelp!

Although on the high end in price for High Tea, we had a most enjoyable time!!

Our Hostess Irwin took very good care of us.  The glass tea pots and cups were different from what we were used to.  Each tea pot remained warm via the lit candle in the pot holders.  When filled with tea, each cup displayed a little shaped heart at the bottom of our tea cup.

A picture of our tiered meal containing scones, fruits and sandwiches. The major attraction . . .

S'more that we could cook ourselves and . . .

their ever so popular fundue with chocolate, green tea and vanilla ice cream hearts, more marshmellows and brownies.  MMmmm, Mmmm, Mmmmm!!!

I would definitely rate this place a MUST for tea lovers!!  It's a treasure of a tea place located right there by the University of Hawaii, great place for college students to study, too!

After tea, we went to visit Cute Stuff whom, sadly closed its crafting doors on December 31.

Lastly, a thank you for wonderful friends and good times:  Bren, Mel, Gail and Dori.

xoxo

Bringing the new year in with scrap cards

Bringing in the new year with my personal favorite - scrap cards.  I made a cute little Bazzill mini album with their assorted shapped borders and pleated borders.   The borders were so cute.  I just couldn't throw them away even though I just had about 3-4 inches of it.   Light bulb moment!  A 3x3 card.  This took about 5 seconds to throw together and I thought came out adorable.  Cardstock, shaped border, pleated border - Bazzill, leather flower (very old-I think Making Memories) and the polka dot brad is old also (in my stash).

 

Enjoy and Happy New Year!   Karen

Happy New Year!!

I made this New Year Baby Calendar Frames for a tea party I went to this weekend.  The baby is a punchart and the frame I picked up at Ben Franklin (HouseMart) a couple of years ago.  The frame came bare, so I had to paint it and decorate it.

Here are all four frames ready for my tea part.  I'll post more later!

Happy New Year everyone!  

May 2014 be a prosperous one for you, 

rich in health and rich in friendship.  

A little rich in the pocket helps too ;o)

Thank you for visiting our Little Paper Studio!!!

Brown Paper Packaging

I have to confess that I didn't make this table treat.  A good friend of mine, Sandy, made these for her table treats at the retreat and I thought what genius!   One of the cutest treats and super simple.  The box is a brown jewelry type box.   She filled it with twine and strings in various colors (I'm pretty sure she shops at CraftySteals also) and tied it up with string and this tag.  Cute!  Simple!  Fast! and very usable!   And doesn't go to my hips like all the candy treats did!  Great idea, Sandy!  I might steal this for a future table treat!

Enjoy!  Karen

Merry Christmas!

Sorry for the bad photo.  This looked better on my phone.  You might recognize the style as I did a halloween and birthday card with washi tape this fall.   I love washi tape!    Own a ton of it and really use it (unlike a lot of other supplies I've collected).   Cardstock, ink, stamp-CTMH, Punches & bling-SU, Washi tape - assorted brands.

Enjoy!  Merry Christmas!  Karen

Craft Fair goodies

 I thought I would post a picture of our tent at one of the past fairs.  We offer a modge podge of items to sell.

These are Hello Kitty composition books with crayons set.

Close up of one of these books.