Mad Hatter Party - Relief Society

Each year we celebrate the birthday 

of the Relief Society, which is the 

women's organization of our church, 

The Church of Jesus Christ 

of Latter-Day Saints.  

I am in charge of the 

Relief Society parties.

We have about four a year.  

I chose the theme of 

Finding Joy in the Madness.

That felt so appropriate with 

all of the crazy things in the 

world and on the news.  

My good friend Karen also has 

the same calling, or responsibility, 

as I do.  I told her about my idea 

and she decided to do the same theme.  

Karen added to my ideas with 

lots of creativity.  

The activity is held in the church 

cultural hall, or gym, so it is 

a large space that can be 

difficult to make inviting. 

She came up with this idea 

at the entry with a wooden 

feature from her garden.  It 

made the venue so inviting.

On the other side of the entry 

I hung a photo backdrop that 

I found on Amazon.  They are 

my new favorite decoration items 

and so reasonable.  

Another great idea of Karen's 

was to take a PVC pipe and 

hang it from the basketball hoop, 

and hanging from it is inexpensive 

lanterns.  I just loved the 

mushroom shaped ones.  These 

are also from Amazon.  

I made 48 Mad Hatter hats 

using 12x12 papers, headbands, 

and paper cups.  They were 

time consuming, but were really 

a hit.  We told them they couldn't 

eat without their hats on, and 

everyone gladly donned them. 

(That was Karen's idea and 

hubby suggested I only make 

a couple per table so people 

could take pictures, but 
I was so glad I did one for

everyone.)

We filled the cups with different 

colors of cotton candy, 

then the ladies could pour 

pink lemonade over the 

cotton candy, as it changed 

the color of the drinks.  

The buffet table had mini 

scones, ribbon sandwiches, 

blueberry goat cheese 

crostini and chicken 

sandwich cream puffs.  

These delicious scones 

were glazed with an 

almond glaze.  We had 

raspberry jam and lemon 

curd on the tables to 

enjoy with the scones. 

One of our committee gladly 

took the assignment of 

making heart shaped 

chocolate covered 

strawberries although she 

had never done those before.  

We found these foam cubes 

at the dollar store to 

place them in as they dried 

and also to serve them.  

I think they turned out 

beautifully.  

Another member of the 

committee made the 

painted roses cupcakes.  

These were displayed on 

the tables on adorable 

Alice in Wonderland 

tiered serving platters.  

You can find the cute 

paper products, tiers, 

runners and cut outs on 

Amazon also.  

I used two different tiered 

trays and will reuse them for 

a family party.  

Tables were filled with clocks,

rabbits, flowers and 

mushrooms.  

We haven't tended to 

take a group photo in 

the past, but with the 

hats on, we just had to.  

I think we need to make 

this a new tradition. 

Just before the group 

picture we had a speaker who did 

a great upbeat presentation 

on Finding Joy in the Madness.

  She used clips 

of Marjorie Hinckley, 

whose delightful humor 

had us all laughing and 

feeling joyful. 

This is my wonderful 

committee who stretch 

to try new things and 

follow all of my crazy 

ideas.  I love them!

And a great thank you 

to my dear friend Karen 

for all of her creative ideas 

and work.  

Thanks for coming to visit! 

I always enjoy your visits. 

I will be posting this 

with 

Tablescapes Thursday

&

Love Your Creativity