Tea In The Garden

Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? 

March Hare: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. 
Red Queen: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. 
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing. 

                                                                    

       

We made the props for the Red Queen until midnight, 

then I woke up at 7am to set up the table, tea cups, cookies, red dates, butter, apples and flowers in our courtyard. 
Ran back home excitingly to wake my boyfriend and Catarina up:

" Wake up! Wake up! We have some shooting to do!" 

They laughed and yawned.

I have been wanting to shoot a version of Alice in Wonderland Tea Time Theme at our 

red brick wall with flower bushes courtyard for such a long time. 

Then came Catarina, the perfect blonde model to be my Red Queen!

She was too tall for the red dress - 

like an Alice who drank the potion and became so tall which made the red dress looked so tiny.

Deciding outfits for the Mad Hatter character was a hard one. I gathered all the hats we have, 

put a price tag and a pigeon's feather on it, and matched them with checked outfits. 

I was quite pleased with the outcome.

Some would ask me why there was no Alice in the shoot,

well simply it's because I think that the Red Queen is a more attractive character, 

or simply because I don't have an Alice's custom in my wardrobe...

The Red Queen and Mad Hatter were insanely hungry that they finished all the cookies just after 

I shouted DONE! for the shooting session. Then a Blue Dwarf passed by and joined us for very lovely breakfast prepared by the Mad Hatter under the cozy morning sun-

English muffins, scrambled egg, orange juice, homemade apricot jam, and salad (odd one)..

Thank you all so much for willing to get up early and be my guests-of-honour at the tea! 

Here are some of the behind-the-scene...