The Mad Tea Party!!

Hooray!! It's Party time!!

It's June 28th, it's Miss Vanessa Valencia's Mad Tea Party of the costume variety, of the Carnivalesque kind so to say....so send in the party clothes, the make up, the tea, the cakes and everything!

I'm a Libra, so of course I was in doubt whether to join the party or not (that's always a time issue, not that I didn't want to). My second doubt concerned whether to come incognito or not;

You see I'm just the average women, but coming to the party with the mask, gives me that 'je ne sais quoi', yes it adds a tad of mystery to this otherwise so common girl.

So it will be mystery and beauty for a change!

I even have an incognito leg. Yessss you are right, it's the one on the right, not the fake croc footed one, I said beauty remember??? Now where is that funny striped stocking, oooh I should have started much earlier....

But look who is here at the Mad Tea Party???

It's Alice!!!

Hi Eva-Alice, thanks for helping me out, taking pictures and stuff. Yeah I like your hair, no you cannot dye it this color...
What do you say?
I just have to wave with my wand and wish for the beautiful gown and shoes??
Where is that &*@*%*$ wand when you need it?
Gee, I only use it when I am supposed to use the vacuum cleaner. Oh well, let's just speak the magic words and don't waste time wand searching....
'Bibbedee babbedee boob'

Oh no Alice! What on earth happened to you???

No, no you haven't become small or large...(well a little larger :-) but you are eh much older...yes I am allowed to say that, as you look exactly my age....What???? Everything here has turned older....
We cannot eat that cake anymore...it's well over it's expiration date, as some say of yours truly, but she pretends not to hear/understand....
And look what has happened to the tea service:

It was already this small, but it was brand new. Now it's has aged into an antique children's service with fairies and butterflies, I have to tell you I like that!

And these were plastic red, blue and yellow children's services just a moment ago...

Would you believe that this was actually Playmobil?

And this was Fisher Price!

And who is this??

Here is the Mad Hatter!! Or should I say Mad Hatress?

Haha, no Mad Tea Party without the Mad Hatter!
Well she is mad because she has an akward date on her hat! It's today's date written down as the Dutch do, which I personally think is more logic than the way the rest of the world does it. It is the 28th day of the sixth month isn't it?? We Dutch say 28 June (28 juni, why use a capital?) too, not the other way around. What would you say?
Are you in for some rhetorics? Though the March Hare has just left the building, but we always have:

Nabaztag! the white rabbit!
He says stuff like:
mmmm, ahummm, yemmmm, (pauzes) maybe ahhm I'm sorry, I wasn't listening, can you say that again?
Nabaztag is definitely masculin!


Look, there is that mad Hatter again, magically she has changed hats and she has gone incognito again...

And another hat, other glasses, but no cakes and no music, as the Mad Hattress prefers to listen to her own music she has disenabled the party music....
But listen...
There is something going on:


Look! It's Nabaztag again!
He tells us the time, all the time. Like:

It's the same time as it was yesterday at the same time! Cute!
or
And now the fantastic and fabulous singing clock; taditadaaa papapapaa!!
or the best:
No, I'm definitely not going to tell you that it's eleven o'clock!
Though I'm not sure whether you can hear him or not, as we apparently are in a different time dimension, you can tell it's late, because I had to take this blurry picture of Nabaztag with flashlight.
Yes it's too late already! Too bad party girlies, the party at LiLi's is over now.
Hope you enjoyed my little Mad Hatters' Tea Party!

Don't forget to attend all Mad Tea Parties, there is a list at Miss Vanessa Valencia's fantabulous blog 'A fanciful Twist'.
Thanks a million for hosting Miss Vanessa, you are the best!
Thank you tea sippers for your visit over here
and remember:
It is the 28th day
of the sixth month.


And now an attempt to make a dutch translation:
Pfjoee en nu nog een vertaling.
Op Miss Vanessa Valencia's blog kun je een lijst vinden met bloggers die aan de Mad Tea Party meedoen. Ik twijfelde eerst of ik hier wel tijd voor zou hebben en vervolgens of ik incognito zou gaan of niet. Mmm dat masker verandert me toch wel van een zeer hollandse meid in een mysterieus iemand. Ik heb ook een incognito been!
Daar zou dan zo'n mooie kous over heen kunnen, maar ja die kan ik dus weer niet vinden. Te laat begonnen...Gelukkig is Alice hier om me op weg te helpen. Zij geeft me de tip om mijn toverstafje te gebruiken. Dat toverstafje gebruik ik eigenlijk alleen maar als ik zou moeten stofzuigen en waar is dan &&%*$#@ ding nou weer?? Nou ja, dan maar alleen de toverspreuk;
hocus pocus...
Whaah wat gebeurt er? Nee Alice, je bent niet verkleind of vergroot (nou ja, oké een klein beetje vergroot dan ;-). Je bent verouderd...en jij niet alleen, alles hier. De taartjes zijn nu ver over de houdbaarheidsdatum hahaha, sommigen zouden zeggen: net als Alice nu! Maar we doen natuurlijk net alsof we dat niet gehoord hebben!
Ook alle speelgoed serviesjes die al klaar stonden zijn plotseling verouderd. Je zou toch niet geloven dat het eigenlijk plastic serviesjes waren? Van Playmobil en Fisher Price enzo?
En wie komt er nu weer bij? Het is de mad Hatter! (als je op de hoogte bent van Lewis Carol's Alice in Wonderland dan leest dit stukje net iets gemakkelijker, het is namelijk een personage uit dat boek. Hij geeft acte de présence op zijn eigen thee feestje, dat dan ook de Mad hatters Tea party heet). In het hoofdstuk komt ook wat rhetoriek voor. Waarom zouden we niet allemaal zeggen dat het vandaag de 28ste van de zesde maand is (de Amerikanen doen dat in ieder geval niet!) Verdere pseudo rhetorica laat ik in bovenstaand stukje opknappen door Nabaztag, ons witte konijn. Hij zegt altijd allerlei grappige dingen zoals de tijd; het is net zo laat als gisteren om deze tijd. Je hebt dus nog steeds een horloge nodig, maar de positieve kant is dat hij niet poept, geen schoon hok nodig heeft en geen kabels of draden doorknaagt. Volgens Nabaztag is het alweer veel te laat. Het is de hoogste tijd jongens, om verder te gaan bij iemand anders op de lijst op Miss Vanessa Valencia's blog: 'a fanciful twist'.
Bedankt voor je bezoek, LiLi M.

Bling my birdcage

Today it's Karla and Beth's bling your birdhouse day!

So ya wanna see my blinghouse?

You really didn't think that I would live in an ordinary house outside, did you??

It's bad enough that this cage was bought at the Action (a super cheap store here in the Netherlands) for less than 2 euros and revamped by LiLi into this:

Yeah, yeah it's a little of Sandra Evertson and it's a little of LiLi M.
Of course, the legs are LiLi's!!

(In fact I asked Beth if it was allright to bling a cage. Btw In case of not noticing the bling its a brooche on Marie Antoinette's dress. Just click the picture.)

I love bird cages. I have them in and around the house:

Mmmm, those inhabitants outside seemed to have suffered from winter. Aah, let them eat cake! Wait until spring, my little defeathered friends and your cages will be cleaned too (and you will be replaced I'm affraid, but I will allow them this one minute of fame now).

Not too much bling here either. I'm more the kind of girl who likes her birdcage the best just before it falls apart. I'm off now to see some more real blinghouses. You should do too and have fun. Thanks Beth and Karla for hosting this event.

One world one heart

Just a post between other posts. This is too good to pass.

This world of bloggers is such a nice world, you get to know people, people are sending each other packages and little cards. It almost seems if people are happy to give and to share. Last week I was a winner of such a giveaway which was organized by Heather Bullard and I was thrilled.
That's why Lisa Oceandreamer hosts a blogger giveaway event. And I'm one of the more than 242 participants. The drawing is next Thursday on Valentinesday.
Actually I was a bit of an opponant of that February 14th. Here in the Netherlands there was no such thing as Valentines day, but since globalisation the shops are filled with merely very ugly and useless stuff. Too commercial for me. But this is something else, its about sharing and getting to know each other. So welcome every one and join the fun!

This is my give away:

I have changed this stationary map a little and filled it with:

Mmm what is this???

Two cards I have made

Some scraps and some self-made heart shaped notes

This picture didn't want to load, what a shame, some surprises for those who have given their comments already...
Two old bingo cards and 4 new dutch Christmas cards with old pictures though...


Some ephemera. It's a word I have recently learned since my frequent visits to blogland. But those old papers were me all the way.
Here are some french pages, a sheet of music paper, two playing cards. And two pages of a dutch 1918 magazine with those beautiful adds.

Last but not least; some old and new but vintage-like wallpaper.
I'm addicted to wallpaper for about 10 years or so. I keep going to Laura Ashley's for pieces to try on my wall. Even play little acts with friends who need some wallpaper there too (shhht).
I never knew there were so many wallpaper addicts. Now I have discovered the vintage american wallpaper, mmm I wil not rest until I have ordered some of those sweet pastel colored pieces.

Well I have closed the file.
I hope your crafting imagination has been tempted!
Want to be a winner? Being here can be only one step from that goal.
The next step is giving a comment on this post. This post only!!!
You don't have to be a blogger but make yourself traceable. So leave an email adress if necessary.
I will draw a winner on February 14th, local time, which is CET.
Good luck to you all! So nice to meet you!

Sorry!! Its now Valentine's day here in Western Europe (CET).
I'm closing at a 158 comments (ooops).
You cannot enter anymore, but I wish you a happy Valentine's day!!!

Virtual Vintage Prom

Hi all!!
I have never been asked to a prom...until...I was at Natasha Burns' creative blog
Wow, of course I am going to this prom, now I finally have the chance. Ah you'll wait and see what I come up with, and every bloke will be sorry that he never asked me before...
Blokes? Here in blogland? Are there actually any blokes in blogland?? Ok, little joke...hahaha!
If you are a real promgown and/or vintage clothes/shoes/costume jewellery fan, just join the fun. See you the 20th!! Have fun, LiLi