Ah, now I know we are well and truly HOME! 🙂
Ninja and I finally managed to arrange our housewarming party, two months after we’d moved into our new place. It took the format of a tea party in the garden, because there was no way to squeeze 20-odd visitors inside our little cottage! In answer to prayer it was a gorgeous day out – clear blue Joburg winter skies; windstill and sunny – and so wonderful to have our dear friends gathering at our new address.
Unfortunately I didn’t have time to go all out like I did with Ninja’s ninja party, but between my mom and I we baked up a delight of treats for the guests. A friend of mine also helped cater, providing some amazing savoury snacks to balance all our sweeties 😉
Decor-wise I didn’t do too much other than focus on the main colours: red, white and mint/sea green. I also printed out some home-related scripture verses to stick up around the cottage (Psalm 127:1, Heb 3:4, Josh 24:15 and Prov 24:3–4). Other than that we just made sure the cottage was clean and the ratties were safely out of the way, and then we held an open house from morning tea time (11 a.m.) to afternoon tea time (4 p.m.)!
It was a lovely way to accomplish Goal #49 on my 101 things in 1001 days list.
Here are a few pics from the day, starting with our soldier…
Of course our soldier was involved in the celebrations
I found the perfect housewarming napkins
A tea party in the sunshine
Mini biscuits, sweets and dried sausage sticks
Shortbread
Vanilla biscuits, ginger biscuits, cheese biscuits and coffee biscotti
Crispy oat biscuits
Old-style soetkoekies – a South African classic
Butterscotch biscuits with various flavours
Plain and wholewheat rusks
Throwing this party just reminded me how much I love spoiling the people I love 🙂 I definitely need to find more excuses to play hostess, even if it’s to fewer folks at a time!
Sunshine Scrapbook 
Looks like such a warm and beautiful party! Moving to a new place is always so exciting!!
Ah, thank you! 🙂