Christmas at Downton Garden Tea Party

This post is spon­sored by Cost Plus World Mar­ket, but as always, all ideas and opin­ions are my own!

Just pri­or to Thanks­giv­ing, I post­ed about my excite­ment in part­ner­ing with Cost Plus World Mar­ket to throw a Down­ton Abbey themed par-TEA, while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly binge-watch­ing all four sea­sons of the show, con­se­quent­ly gen­er­at­ing both good and bad news. The bad news is I have now watched every sin­gle episode that has aired here in the USA and am expe­ri­enc­ing slight with­drawals, but the good news is I had the immense plea­sure of being vir­tu­al­ly trans­port­ed to the abbey, as my fam­i­ly and I par­took in all the #Dothe­Do­wn­ton fun by host­ing a tea par­ty of our own! As an avid tea par­ty fan, my daugh­ter, Anabelle, was espe­cial­ly delight­ed to attend the par­ty and even invit­ed her Amer­i­can Girl doll to join in on the fun.

I was so enthu­si­as­tic and anx­ious to pur­chase all the gor­geous items in the Cost Plus World Mar­ket Down­ton Abbey shop that I was stalk­ing my local store as they were still putting all the prod­uct out on dis­play! Once I browsed through the assort­ment, along with the beau­ti­ful hol­i­day mer­chan­dise, I decid­ed I want­ed to give it a sea­son­al spin and deter­mined that a Christ­mas at Down­ton gar­den tea par­ty would be just perfect.

Instead of a tra­di­tion­al table set­ting, I opt­ed instead for a buf­fet table. From the Down­ton Abbey col­lec­tion, I pur­chased the 2‑tiered serv­ing stand, teacups and saucers and coor­di­nat­ing plates and styled them direct­ly on the table, even uti­liz­ing the beau­ti­ful box­es in which they came as dis­play items. I also includ­ed the adorable but­ler nut­crack­er, Vic­to­ri­an frame {with a pic­ture of fam­i­ly and staff!} and the DA mug I received when shop­ping at the store on Black Friday!

In addi­tion to the cro­chet run­ner and table­cloth, I want­ed to incor­po­rate more lace details, which I did with the use of doilies. I uti­lized both large and small paper doilies to cre­ate a cou­ple of buntings to string across the trees by sim­ply fold­ing them in half and hot glu­ing them to some jute rope. Some of the doilies on the table ban­ner were embell­ished with paper fans, sim­i­lar to the ones I made for our Book of Life par­ty a cou­ple of months back, embell­ished with black bow ties. And final­ly, I crin­kled the cen­ters of small doilies and adhered the back with tape to cre­ate lacey paper flow­ers that I used to accen­tu­ate var­i­ous parts of the table.

The deli­cious food we served included:

♥ Down­ton Abbey black­cur­rant jam and lemon curd

♥ Eng­lish crumpets

♥ Cucum­ber and turkey sand­wich­es {shaped with tree cook­ie cutters}

♥ Mince­meat tarts

♥ Minia­ture bundt cakes with fon­dant top­pers and a red vel­vet hol­i­day bundt cake

♥ Down­ton Abbey short­bread tin

And, of course, the main offer­ing: tea! We served The Repub­lic of Tea’s Down­ton Abbey Christ­mas Tea and the But­ler’s Pantry Blend in the ele­gant teapot.

I wrapped some par­ty gifts with Down­ton Abbey paper, as well as match­ing Win­ter Soiree paper to add dif­fer­ent pat­terns and col­ors, then com­plet­ed the favors with addi­tion­al mugs and totes from the Black Fri­day give­aways and hol­i­day crack­ers!

As you can see, we had such a fun, yet dig­ni­fied Christ­mas at Down­ton tea par­ty that day. We also loved get­ting dressed up for the occa­sion! Hope you are inspired to throw a tea par­ty of your own and don’t for­get to enter the Cost Plus World Mar­ket sweep­stakes for a chance to win a trip for two to Lon­don, espe­cial­ly if you’re a Down­ton Abbey fan, as you can vis­it High­clere cas­tle, the DA set, plus a $1000 CPWM gift card!!!!

And last­ly, Cost Plus World Mar­ket is giv­ing away two prize pack­ages, inclu­sive of many of the Down­ton Abbey items I uti­lized for our own cel­e­bra­tion! Sim­ply enter below by end of day Fri­day 12/26 for a chance to win!

a Raf­fle­copter giveaway

Merci Beaucoup!

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