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Another Witch's Tea Party

The Invite 

(nice pictures by my friend Cami)

I personally don't like to theme my witch parties to movies, I keep forgetting they made a movie called "Into the Woods" lol!   For this party I wanted it to be outside under the full moon🌕🌜

I made a bunch of quick lanterns from wire and baby food jars/mason jars and hung them with tea lights, battery lights for the table, and some citronella candles to help keep the mosquitoes away.  My sister also had around 20 origami cranes she was getting rid of - perfect timing!

I prefer an elegant yet spooky look.  

I kept the buffet pretty simple this year, the only thing I had to make were the "marshrooms" and the rotten eggs, oh and I carved some shrunken heads for the witches brew.  

I should have taken better before pictures, but this is the set up, pillows to sit on and low tables.  

Adding skeletons is a must ;)

I made these lovely Fatal Fates eggs again.

 Crack open the crows egg to see what your fatal fate shall be!

I received "Death by playing with matches" 

Other notable fates include: Poisoned at a tea party and Bitten by a Vampire. 

My moon adored the Fortune Tellers table 

with my deck of Gypsy Witch Fortune telling cards

The Fortune Telling Table 

I made some Poison tea cups too, using a sharpie mug tutorial online

 Fill up the cup! 

But you have to do it by blowing into the top of the tea pot. 

Hilarious! 

Marshmellow Bobbing

We also played musical chairs, but by passing brooms in a circle to my fav song on the 

Practical Magic cd (Lime in the Coconut ;)  

My witches ;) I should note that we are not "actual" witches, just all my lady friends enjoying my crazy idea of fun - in June no less!  My birthday gift to me 😀

Broom parking serves as a nice photo backdrop

So much fun! 

Caring

The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy.  For if you hate someone you are still caring about them.  This is why children who are ignored will act out and misbehave just for a scrap of attention, whether it is positive or negative, they just want you to care.  So remember that next time you say, "I don't care!" to someone you love.  And remember that when you worry about what other people think about your hair or clothes - do you love those random people on the street? No? Then don't care!

Just a thought from KAREn who often cares too much ;)

A Witch's Tea Party

The best time for a witch's tea party is after dark so all the little monsters are sleeping and the witch's can rule the night! A Moonlight Tea please! 

It's all about the treats! Pumpkin Bundt cake, aged eggs, and jello worms recipes found on Pinterest.  And ghostly meringues from my friend were to die for! 

A little witch's brew and loose leaf tea for Tea Leaf Fortunes

My extra hats for guests who forgot theirs, and a few broom they brought.  We used our brooms to do a game of pass the broom (just like musical chairs) ;)

A horrible picture, but tiny bats cut out and perched on the edge of a tea cup were such a cute detail, and easy too!

And of course a photo booth! Another very fun game was a version of bobbing for apples, but one that doesn't mess up your makeup.  Marshmallows in a bowl of water, 3 players take a straw and the first to get the most marshmallows out (by sucking them up with the straw) wins!

More ideas on my pinterest Witch's Tea Party board:

https://www.pinterest.com/randomkaren/witches-tea-party/

My plans for next year:

Make a backdrop as cool as this: https://www.etsy.com/listing/229234897/prohibition-paper-moon-backdrop-and?ref=shop_home_active_3

Make some lovely bones: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/snow-violent-sugar-skulls

Food for thought

http://www.gotquestions.org/argument-existence-God.html
One of the most objective arguments I have found so far.

Moon

What a world....

Someone said it the way I wanted to but can't!

Why MEDICALLY abortion is a no go:

http://thetorchblog.net/?p=996

BEST COMMENTS:

Fred says

August 14, 2016 at 11:21 am

You are pro birth like many others and not pro life. Here are the 3 questions I ask the many “pro-lifers”

1) Do you donate to any pro life organizations that help with unwanted babies?

2) Children need figures in their lives that will Mentor them and help them develop socially and emotionally (i.e loving parents). Now before I go on I’ll say this, I understand there are parents now that don’t provide that however,I’ll argue and say that those parents went in thinking they will provide all that and unconditional love while the people that want abortions know that they won’t so don’t try to use that argument. Anyways, would you be willing to be a mentor to these unwanted children during your free time without pay?

3) Many of these unwanted children are in a vicious cycle of being adopted and then “returned” or never get a chance to be adopted. The orphanages don’t have money to provide them with healthy and nutritious meals, clothing, and even safety. Things like this require money …so are you willing to have our taxes raised so the government can better equipp these orphanages?

You see what I mention requires actual work involved. Many pro lifers are all talk with no action. This is why I call you all part time pro lifers or just pro birth. Have you ever asked “I wonder what happened to those unwanted born children? Of course not, because if it’s out of sight it’s out of mind. I give you credit for no longer performing abortions, and your form of action is teaching about preventative measures. However, what are you doing to contribute to the many that were never wanted and those people who were forced to have that child?

Lastly, there is potential for life to exist after conception. Yes, I know cells will signal to develop a brain, heart, liver etc… but before it does it is just a culmincation of cells. You are creating guilt for something that hasn’t even developed. You manipulated the facts using your knowledge on human physiology. FACT baby is inside the woman. FACT 2 the baby needs the mother has a host (until we have the tech that won’t require this). Maybe that’s what you part time pro lifers should do. Invest money to a group of scientist that can develop a machine that can host the unwanted culmination of cells.

(P.s this article is very well written as opposed to mine because I’m typing on my phone, quickly, if I may add. Judge the 2 opposing views by the points mentioned and not by punctuation or sentence structure. )

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• Andrew says

  August 14, 2016 at 9:04 pm

  Fred,

  I’ll be happy to answer your questions.

  1) Yes. Substantially.

  2 & 3) Red herrings. Your questions have nothing to do with the question, “Is this a life?” or “Is abortion murder?” Otherwise, the logical extension of your inquiry is that killing babies is a reasonable solution to the problems of “unwanted” children. By that logic, why not keep the babies and kill the older kids that are harder to foster? If death is better than being unwanted, then there is nothing morally preventing us from killing the kids we can’t foster. I don’t even want unwanted pets to die. let alone babies.

  If the question is, “What do we do about the problem of un-mentored or unwanted children?”, then I would suggest that we focus on proven solutions that don’t involve murder. Birth control, two-parent families, and abstinence might be good places to start.

  I am all for women having a choice – in fact as the article states, they have many choices. However, once you have another human living and growing inside of you, you’ve made your choice (except in the rare incidence of conception by rape, which the article addresses). Your choices now are to keep and raise your baby or give it up to one of the thousands of couples looking to adopt.

  Lastly, your argument about the “culmination” of cells was destroyed by the writer of the article already. If your argument is that without the mother, the fetus will die, then we have opened the door to infanticide. Sadly, infanticide has its proponents, though I don’t believe you are one.

  I believe you are a well-meaning person who has bought into these pro-choice arguments, as flaccid as they may be. Let me invited you over to the other side. Use your passion, wit, and intelligence for life. It’s much more satisfying to stand with those who oppose this barbaric practice than it is to stand with those who would defend ripping a baby from the protective womb of its mother and then selling it for parts.

  Come on over. I’ll leave the lights on for you.