Wonderings on a Tale of Tea Parties, Gingerbread and Mysteries
It was a beautifully sunny day and Agatha ChrisTEA had
decided to pay her dear friends Earl and Lady Grey a visit.
They were so happy to see Agatha and tea was set up in Lady
Grey’s sitting room, complete with an Apple sponge cake.
All of a sudden a kerfuffle was heard at the door and in
walked a gypsy woman!
“Oh I say” exclaimed Lord Grey “How did you get in here? What do you want?”
"My name is Gypsy Rose Tea and your fortunes I shall tell,
the tea leaves are my guide and good luck is what I sell."
Gypsy Rose Tea picked up one of the empty cups and looked at
in intently, slowly starting to frown.
“The leaves do not look good and bad vibes are in the air,
they show me times of murder, darkness and despair.”
Suddenly a Lady Grey let out a piercing scream “AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH
look, OH NO, look.”
The party all turned towards her and gasped, for lying on
the floor, headless was the ginger bread man.
“Oh no” Lady Grey
sobbed "Not the gingerbread man, who would do such a thing? Where is his head?"
Now Agatha thought herself a bit of an amateur sleuth and
she knew exactly what to do in this kind of situation. “Right well we must all keep calm and look
for clues. I know that I didn’t eat the
gingerbread man head so I shall interview you all."
“Earl Grey I shall start with you.”
"Where were you at the time of the murder?"
"You know where I was, I was in the sitting room listening to
the Gypsy woman. I didn’t take the
gingerbread head, can’t stand the things, By Jove."
Lady Grey was next.
“Now dear, take a deep breath and try to remember what you
can.”
“Well Agatha, dear, I was sat next to you listening to the
Gypsy lady when I heard a noise from behind me, I looked around and that was
when I saw the body. I really can’t bear
it, I was saving it for us to share, it certainly wasn’t me, I always start
with the legs."
Gypsy Rose Tea wasn’t able to offer any further help either.
“I told you that it was in the tea leaves, I warned you this
would happen.”
Hummmm, Agatha addressed the rest of the group. "Well clearly
it is none of us here, let us go back to the gingerbread man and see if there
is something we have missed."
“A Ha! What is this?
There are crumbs on the floor.” They all
looked excitedly round at each other, this tea party was far more interesting
than they had expected.
“Where do they lead?
We must follow them.”
They followed the crumbs outside and over to the mushroom
patch.
As they got closer they could see that a figure was sitting
amongst the mushrooms. It was an elf.
An elf who had a gingerbread head in his hands.
“It was you, naughty elf!
You stole the gingerbread head.”
The Elf, who was indeed rather naughty, quickly lept down and ran off,
clutching the gingerbread head tightly and laughing.
The group, happy that the mystery had been solved, and not
really bothered about the loss of one gingerbread man head after all, went back
inside to finish there tea.
Later that evening when Agatha ChrisTEA was back home she
started to write the tale of the Headless Gingerbread man down, she had decided
that, with a few embellishments of course, it would make a wonderful mystery
novel, she might even try and get it published.
The End
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I hope you enjoyed my mad tea party with my teacup people. I've decided that this would be an ideal time to have my first giveway! The giveaway consists of a teacup (maybe for a teacup person?), a wooden mushroom (a miniature version of the ones the elf was found in) and a little flower fairy.
All you need to do is leave a comment and let me know you'd like to be entered into the draw and I'll add your name to the hat. Oh and please make sure that I have a way to contact you if you win.
Big thanks to Vanessa at A Fanciful Twist for holding such wonderful Tea Parties. Sooooo looking forward to seeing what everybody has come up with this year.
Much love
R xxxx
Comments
Your teacup people are adorable. Do I smell gingerbread?
Thank you and Party On!
Kelley
when you can please visit!
http://teacupmosaics.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-wonderful-mad-tea-party.html
Hugs and enjoy the rest of your parties! elisabetpollock.blogspot.com (Mossberry Cottage)
Beth P
http://theweekendartist.blogspot.com/2012/07/mad-tea-party-2012.html
Those teacup ladies...such a good idea! And it's the first time I see wooden mushrooms, so cute!
I've been visiting your very nice blog, lovely tablescape for your wedding!
Thanks for your visit.
Besos from Argentina, Silvina
thank you for visiting my party earlier also :)
Please come take a cuppa with me at my party, link here:
http://idlebakes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/a-mad-tea-party-in-idle-wonderland.html
Thanks for stopping my my post.
Happy Tea Party day!
Tricia
Hugs
XO,
Lisa
hope you can stop by my parties!
Sincerely, Theresa :)
Happy Mad Tea Party Day!
Give me a visit some time ~
thriftshopcommando.blogspot.com
Thank you for stopping by my party and inviting me to yours. xoxo
Happy Mad Tea Partying!
♥ Vanessa {a fanciful twist}
Oh my,Rachel, this was brilliant! I loved the story and I adored the pictures(and the puns). Those elves! Take anything not nailed down! Thank you for visiting my blog and your sweet comment.
As for Miss White, I had a call this morning and she's been located. I hope to have her on Monday. Fingers crossed!
Carmen
http://www.moonlyf.com/2012/07/moonlyfs-mad-moonlit-tea-party.html
Your tea party was magnificent! I would love to be included in your giveaway! Also, when you get a chance please come by and visit me for tea and a giveaway!
http://www.anaboocreationsbysylvia.blogspot.com
Please do visit my tea party!!
http://queencreative.com/illustration/fanciful-tea-party-2012/
Lots of sugar and spice and everything nice.
Queen Creative
I hope the Gingerbread man will recover from his injuries. ;-)
Thank you so much for your visit to The Tearoom yesterday! I was too tired to do my visiting then and so I am doing it all today! What a fun and clever Mad Tea Party you had! I do so love a mystery and had to look for a second because I wasn't so sure that Sir Earl Grey was not Monsieur Poirot!!! Very fun!
Wishing you a wonderful rest of your Mad Tea Party weekend!
Betty
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Please enter me in your lovely giveaway. I think those wooden mushrooms are absolutely wonderful.
***Please fall in for a Mad Spoonful of Tea over on The Other Side of Wonderland***
Wishes and Whimsy
Wendy from Wonderland
http://candydelane.typepad.com/curiosities/
momentsinaneye.blogspot.com
I love a good mystery.
Please do enter my name into the drawing.
Thank you for stopping by the shop.
Wonderful wishes,
Shopgirl
what a lovely post...so creative in your story!!!! I adore the cute painted tea cup and how you have decorated them.
Of course I would LOVE to be entered into your giveaway!!!!
if I am selected you can reach me at miladyleela@gmail.com
Thanks so much for visiting me also...I am glad that you enjoyed your visit♥
~~Hugs,
Dena
Thank you for sharing!
Cheers, Kelly
http://scrapvamp.blogspot.com/2012/07/mad-tea-party-2012.html
love it!
xoxo
Sarah :)
Kerstin
http://cobblestone-prims.blogspot.de/2012/07/mad-tea-party-2012.html
thanks for having me
lisa
the tea cups are adorable!!!
http://butterflydream27.blogspot.com/2012/07/2012-mad-tea-party.html
And I can´t wait to show you my Midsummernights Dream costume! I will play a fairy in Oberon´s court. I have created the character myself, I´m a "key fairy", a good excuse to wear lovely jewelry with old keys!
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