Morning Tea Round Up

Our Australia's Biggest Morning Tea was a huge success with 50 wonderful women coming together for a great cause.

The desserts. Image taken by Tomoka Ota. This was BEFORE everyone filled the table with their home-baked goodies!

Kylie of From My Deck generously shares her dairy-free Berry Friand recipe here. I tried them and they were delicious!

Katherine, Simone and Kylie.

Tanya, Maria and Maria.

Drawing the raffle. Jennie Walker gave away her beautiful doll. Image by Happy Little Queenslander.

Above images from the Katherinetheoldboathouse instagram feed. Katherine donated, polished and ribboned all of the 50 souvenir tea-spoons for our goody bags. What a woman!

A BIG thank you to everyone who came along, baked cakes, contributed to the goody bags, donated raffle prizes and donated on-line. 

It was an amazing team effort and we have raised $1870 (only $130 short of our goal). BUT it's not too late to donate  via our official Cancer Council link here. It would be wonderful to achieve our $2000 goal for vital Cancer Research that could benefit you or a loved one.

Almost Ready

We've had over 50 RSVPs to our Australia's Biggest Morning Tea for Thursday! We're so pleased with the support and about meeting new and old friends.

Cakes are coming from mummy bakers and professionals too. The wonderful Gillian Bell cake girl is bringing something special for us. The above Hydrangea Petal Cake is one of her masterpieces. Can you see where the inspiration came from? Genius!

Lucky Door Prize to match is donated by Quirky Comforts. 

Gorgeous postcards  (4 different ones) designed for us especially by Samantha Stenner Creative for the goody bags.

Raffle prizes include 'Miss Trudi', a hand-painted doll by Jennie of A Little Vintage valued at $58

a $50 gift voucher from Lyssy May hand-made bags that you can use on-line

a $30 Master gift voucher donated by Anita of Fun and VJs.

If you can't make it, PLEASE make a monetary donation via our official Cancer Council Page. We have already reached 13% of our $2000 goal that goes directly to Cancer Research. It really does affect everyone and the life you save could be yours or a loved one. 

We will give you 6 raffle tickets (to be drawn at our Morning Tea tomorrow) for every $10 donated. To see some of the other prizes and sponsors, see my previous post here. LET'S KICK CANCER IN THE BUTT! 

Our Biggest Morning Tea

We're taking part in 'Australia's Biggest Morning Tea' again this year!

I was disappointed that I couldn't host a tea last year due to family medical issues but thankfully, here we are again.

The date is Thursday, May 23rd and I would love to invite you all. The location is our Studio in Capalaba and the time is: 10 am - 12.00 noon.

In 2011, we raised $900. This year, we have set our goal at $2000. All proceeds will go directly to the QLD Cancer Council Fund to help fight this terrible disease that affects all of us! We are asking all attendees for a donation of $20.

I am very passionate about this cause as my husband is continuing to battle cancer and I have lost 3 other family members in the last 18 months to it.

The goody bags are back too! We have 50 to giveaway to the first people who RSVP and attend. Please do so by visiting our Events Page on facebook, leaving a comment here or emailing me if you're not on facebook.

Including in the goody bag is a Thea & Sami screen-printed linen tea-towel,

a mini hand-made soap from Outrageous Soaps

a clay gift tag from Mud by Nest. Other surprises will be included too.

In addition, generous small business friends have donated unique prizes for our raffle. Some of the prizes include this 'Peacock Party' clutch purse hand-made by Monkey and Me.

a Beautiful Mors natural soy wax tea-cup candle donated by Ruby and Rose Interiors

One-of-a-kind hat by Kelly Maddock Millinery

OLFA Rotary Cutting Set in pretty pink donated by Sew Much Easier with more prizes more to follow. 

You may purchase tickets at our Morning Tea at 3 for $5 or pre-purchase if you can't attend. To pre-purchase, please make a donation on our official Cancer Council page here and email me to receive the corresponding amount in tickets. Prizes will be shipped Australia-wide but we ask that winners pay for postage costs.

If you are attending, please feel free to bring your business cards; it will be a fun day for networking while raising funds for an important cause. We are also looking for more baked goods so let me know if this is your specialty.

The Morning Tea

Our Australia's Biggest Morning Tea on Thursday was a great success thanks to all who attended, donated to our Cancer Council Fund, baked cakes, donated goody bag items or raffle prizes.

We far exceeded our original target of $500 with a total of $940 raised so far, including 20% of our studio sales that morning. It's not too late to make a donation if you wish.

Read on to see who was there and click on their names to read their blogs.

Here's a glimpse of the crowd with Georgina and Liz on the right.

Jenny, Kerri and Katherine.

Linda, Joyce, Pam and Sonia.

Three lovely sisters; Amie, Jessica and Kate.

Emma and Sandrine.

Tracey and Linda.


Sandrine and Sophie.

Home-baked goods by Sandrine, Tracey, Georgina, Chantal and me.

I'm sorry if I didn't get to chat to all of you and take your photos. I really need to invest in a hot water urn before future functions so that I can spend more time with you.

I will be posting more images later of the goody bag items and acknowledging those who contributed.

It was a lovely morning with a lot of great networking happening. Would you like us to host future Morning Teas for free social networking?

Looking and Smelling Good!

I bet you wish you were coming to our Morning Tea, right? Great company, yummy cakes and goodie bags all for a good cause.

It just keeps getting better with Pam of Bayside Rose generously donating samples of her delicious hand-made natural soaps for all the goodie bags.

Do you prefer jewellery? How about this wooden brooch from Red Revival? Emma has kindly offered it for our raffle. You probably don't recognise the fabric but it's our Cottage Garden printed flax linen. I love how a snippet makes it look so different.

I just love Emma's new work. How cool is this "Peter Pan Collar" necklace? Even cooler is the fact that it comes with interchangeable ribbon for the bow.

You can meet both Pam and Emma at our Morning Tea. Thanks gals! RSVP to the Morning Tea here or email me.

Back to the Real Job

Today it was back to screen-printing textiles. Only problem was that everybody (except me) was sick so I was flying solo. I was running back and forth from screen-printing placemats, tea-towels and napkins to putting them through the textile dryer. I came home exhausted! Who needs the gym?

We are still small enough that I do customise orders for our lovely stockists. These pretty 'Hydrangea' placemats are printed on white linen with 'Blue Heaven' ink.

As are the coordinating tea-towels which are now on their way to 'Themes' in Sydney.

The 'Dotty about Roses' tea towel printed in black and white will be available at 'Finders Keepers Homewares' in Peregian Beach next week. Do you like them? If so, I will print more of them.

We have ordered white linen fabric so I am planning more pretty prints on white for Spring. I want to have curtains made for our home.

Yay! I am so grateful that my shipment of linen napkins finally arrived today. All 8 boxes of them. We had totally run out but we shouldn't have any more supply problems now.

Tomorrow I will be announcing more goodies for our Morning Tea. What a generous lot you all are. I am getting quite excited and know it will be a great morning for a great cause with 30 expected guests so far. You can still RSVP until Monday so that we can make sure to have a goodie bag for you.

Yes, I am taking offers of home-made cakes, cookies or whatever else is your specialty :)

Art for Charity

We have added another beautiful item to our Morning Tea's Cancer Council raffle prize pool.

This beautiful painting of Moreton Bay would cheer up any decor with its yellow tones (shadows are only in photo). It has been generously donated by lovely blogger Sarah Woods who is an interior designer, mum of two, founder of the Interior Design Mentor and co-owner of the Build4Cost Building system.


When Sarah's not designing or posting on her two blogs, she loves to dabble in her first love of painting, sketching and making fun thing with her kids. Sarah also accepts painting commissions.

You will find Sarah at Sarah ID Mentor, a blog for home building, renovating and decorating 'how to guide' or over at her Tropical Living/Design blog. Guests to our Morning Tea can meet Sarah in person.

Thank you Sarah for your lovely artwork and I look forward to meeting you on the 26th.

RSVP to our Morning Tea here or if you would like raffle tickets but can't attend, please make a donation to our Cancer Council fund and let me know when you do. You will be allocated 3 raffle tickets for every $5 donation.

Images are courtesy of Sarah Woods.

Massage and Bunnies

Our upcoming Morning Tea is looking better and better. Janelle Bray, my wonderful massage therapist has generously offered a 1/2 massage voucher to a lucky guest. Janelle's services come highly recommended by me!

Raffle tickets will be sold and drawn at the event with more items to be added to the prize pool before then. If you would like to buy raffle tickets but are unable to attend the Morning Tea, please make a donation to the Cancer Council here and let me know so I can allocate tickets to you. A donation of $5 will buy you 3 tickets and so forth.

Or if you want to donate an item for our raffle, that would be nice too.

And for the goodie bags, Clare Bower of Clare's Craftroom has kindly sent me 20 of her adorable Honey Bunny patterns.

Check out Clare's other craft patterns here. Thank you Janelle and Clare!

Would you like to come to our Morning Tea and meet other Brisbane bloggers while socialising for a good cause? Your RSVP is kindly requested.

Speaking of tea, does anybody in Brisbane have a large hot water urn that we could borrow on the day?

Art for Our Morning Tea

Thank you to the lovely bloggers who have already RSVP'd for the Australia's Biggest Morning Tea that we are hosting in our studio on Thursday, 26th May.

'Neon Blossoms'

The event is to raise funds for the Cancer Council of Australia. If you would like to join us, visit our event page and RSVP or leave a comment on this post. We are giving each guest a goodie bag that includes a Thea & Sami linen tea-towel and other items donated by guests and readers. Let me know if you would like to include something or your promotional material.

'Hilltop Life'

Georgina Berkman is a local artist who is donating reproduction postcards of her colourful pen drawings for the goodie bags. If you are unable to attend our event but would like to help us reach our goal of raising $500, please consider making a small donation to the Cancer Council here. Cancer affects everyone!

'Birds and Blossoms'

I hope you have something nice planned for this beautiful (in Brisbane) Autumn's day. I'm off to meet a dear friend for breakfast and then will keep painting the fabric shelves this afternoon.

Australia's Biggest Morning Tea

Australia's Biggest Morning Tea is an annual event held across our nation to assist the Cancer Council with winning the war against Cancer.

Did you know that 1 in 2 Australians will be diagnosed with Cancer before they are 85? Those are scarey statistics!

As Voyt is a cancer survivor and both of us have lost family to the disease, I have decided to host a Morning Tea this year and you are invited.

The venue will be our new Studio Shop and the date is Thursday, 26th May so do mark it in your diaries for 10.00 am - 12.00 pm. We ask that all guests donate $20 to the cause and 20% from any Studio Shop sales on the day will also be donated to the Cancer Council.

Attendees will receive a goodie bag that will include a Thea & Sami hand-printed, linen tea-towel. If you would like to donate something small to the goodie bag to promote your own business, that would be lovely too.

I have set up a Facebook event page for RSVP's to ensure that we cater for everyone and that we have enough goodie bags. Otherwise, please email me.

If you are unable to attend, you may choose to make a donation to the Cancer Council through my Morning Tea page. My goal is to raise at least $500.

I hope that fellow Queenslanders are enjoying the Labour Day holiday today. I am catching up with housework and a few little painting projects that I will share with you soon.