Butterfly Meadow Tea

I hope you can join me for a butterfly and blossom tea this week to showcase my "everyday china," Butterfly Meadow by Lenox.

My mother gifted me with the tablecloth, which is also Butterfly Meadow. 

Butterfly Meadow has wonderful variety.  The sets you see on the table are six different patterns, each named for a butterfly, with the exception of one dragonfly.

Dragonfly set:

This is the only set where the cup and saucer and the accent plate (the luncheon plate) both have the same insect--the dragonfly the set is named for. 

All the other sets just have a flower in common between the cup and saucer and the accent plate.  It's really fun to find all the random additions in these sets--different flowers, lady bugs, bees, moths, and even other butterflies just to name a few.  In each of the sets below, the butterfly that the set is named after is on the cup.

Fritillary set:

 

 

Eastern Tailed Blue set:

 

 

Yellow Swallowtail set:

 

 

Monarch set:

 

Orange Sulphur set:

With some yellow tea roses the table is almost complete,

except for the tea set, of course!

Even the tea set has different butterflies and flowers depending on what side of each of the sugar, creamer, and tea pot you are looking at.  Everyone at the table gets to see something pretty!  I really like the interesting lid handles on the sugar (a rose bud) and the teapot (a yellow butterfly).

Please pick your favorite set and have a seat--because I have a full blown tea to share with you today!

Egg salad in phyllo cups, chicken salad with grapes and kiwi on croissants, and dill cucumber sandwiches, shaped like flowers of course, because what other kind of cucumber sandwiches would you have with Butterfly Meadow?

I also have one additional sandwich, but unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of the ones I actually served, just the test sandwich:

 The real ones turned out much better, but it is a tomato rose.  See here for a how to.

Of course, afternoon tea isn't complete without scones, and I served the orange blossom berry scones that I've featured on the blog previously here.

Finally, I made little cupcakes meant to look like little white flowers for dessert.

Check back tomorrow for more on these little cupcakes :)!

This week I'm joining:

Tea Time Tuesday at Rose Chintz Cottage

 Bernideen's Tea in the Garden

 Tea Cup Tuesday ~ http://www.marthasfavorites.com/
Tuesday Cuppa Tea~ http://www.antiquesandteacups.info/