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...

              

              

The Apple Diet

Obese Snow White started an Apple Diet
The Queen sent her apples from the Poison Tree
Poor Snow White dies
Of hunger or poison apples



03.12.2009

Some time in 2009 some where at a bookstore I read of  an interior scene as above from an interior design magazine.
Bought a dozen of imported apples from the supermarket just because the shape of the apple was perfect for shooting.
The preparation work was pretty funny -- I was biting 14 apples!
Until the fifth apple bite, I realized I actually could not finish eating all the 14 apples' bites!
Oh so the rest of the bites were kept in the fridge.

That night I used pillows and cushions to create the sofa as in the interior scene.
And set up the apples, red pumps, tv remote control, magazine, Michael Jackson's CD and "Angel and The Demon".
After a few runs from the camera and the scene, finally I accomplished this self portrait.
So what should I do with those bitten off apples?!
Well, I started a boring apple diet for a week...


I screwed up a relationship with a good friend few months ago, she hated me and we were no longer friends.
After a few church services, I finally sent her a text message to said sorry because I realized that I made a mistake of judging her.
She never reply and I always have bad dreams asking for her forgiveness.

No one has the rights to judge anyone, no matter how sinful they are.
Human like to judge, gossip, jealous -- these acts are as poison as apple.
What make a person different from the others is to be mercy to those who are sinful.
It's hard to be like Christ but that is what we should try to practice!

I am a very sensitive and emotional person. All my expressions are shown on my face.
Of course I show sour face when I am unhappy, and then I would be judged again.
Although my parents have advised me hundred times not to show sour face.
But I am sorry to say that this is who I am. I mean no harm. Love me or hate me.

Next time before you judge people, see how you would like to be judged.