An Autumn Tea party

Last Week I gave a little Autumn tea party for a few older ladies I know.
Here are the photo's from it.

I made the gift bags.

 The gift bags were simply brown paper bags, cut open, sewn again. I made the ruffle tape from crepe paper. (will be available in my shop this week). I used an old book and tore out some pages. Then a paper doily, a manilla tag and printed pictures of a photograph I took of the flowers that inspired my theme/color scheme.

 After the little gifts were inside, I punched two holes for the string to go through to tie it closed and attached a gift tag to the string with a teeny tiny clothes pin.

Designed a quick label on the computer for the soaps.

 Before...

 After...

 The Table.

 Some of my favorite books stacked up and tied with ribbon.

 Lot's of acorns, pine cones, autumn leaves.
A Carrot cake....

For the flowers, I simply put some double sided tape on the glass, attached some leaves and secured with twine.
I made some no-crust cucumber sarmies on a little 2-tier plate stand. My little collection of birds, nests and eggs went well with the autumn theme. This little tea party was very cost effective. I didn't spend any money on decorations, everything nature provided, and I made the gift bags with what I had at home.

 Here is a close up of one of the gift bags.
I am going to be selling ones similar to this -as a DIY kit in my shop soon.

Thanks for looking! I hope this inspires somebody to give their own little tea party!