Mad Hatter's Tea Party

Just finished up our little part of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party on Saturday. This is an annual event held at the Idaho Botanical Gardens and I was participated as one of the vendors. The booth typically touts hand knit scarves & shawls, hand warmers and hats. But since the occasion was geared to the children the inventory grew to include crowns & wands, lots of "little people" hand warmers, crazy hats and of course, all the fun-fur "feel good" mini scarves a little girl would want. Those who visited the booth had a great time....although they were few & far between. Just had 1 1/4 inches of rain the day before & the weather was still a little overcast. I think that kept a lot of people home.

There was this Crazy dressed up guy who kept running & screaming through the vendor area that he "was late..I'm SO late" for something or another. And this very pretty lady dressed in a velvet dress must have had a lot of candy in her pockets as she had a line of kids constantly following her. They were doing a "Parade of self-made Hats" and let me tell you...there are a lot of pretty creative kids out there!

Five different little ballet troups entertained the crowd during the afternoon tea. They were absolutely adorable.

What a "FABULOUS" event for the children! They had a great time.
I have never been to this event but if my grand children lived here...I would definitely make this an annual Grandma's day out with the grandkids.