My Birthday~ Tea cups and Roses

My birthday is just around the corner. On February 14th  I'll be turning 25 years old and I'm finally having a tea party. Yes a tea party. I have been begging everyone to join me for tea but they just don't want to, so when asked what I want to do for my birthday I knew I had them.

I love to plan parties, I love every detail of planning the party just as much as the party itself. Last year  made my own cake just cause I found a new cake I wanted to try both for baking and eating reasons. I started getting everything together last month, plates, planning a menu, picking a cake, picking the tea, and the other options for non tea drinkers, and anything else I needed to have for my perfect tea part. But The most important thing to me was to have the best birthday outfit. I love having something fun or theme related to wear on my birthday so when It came time to plan my outfit I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

For a while now I have had my heart set on an Royal Albert tea set. I'm just too poor to get the whole set at one time so I have to get it piece by piece. Well the first this I would love to get is a tea cup from the Country Rose Collection

my favorite one is this one

Royal Albert tea cup and saucer set in Polka dot blue.

I just fell in love with the design. I wish I could find it for my birthday but everywhere I looked they were sold out of this style. Anyway I had decided to base the theme for both the tea party and my birthday outfit on that cup. I prepared myself to have to search for a similar fabric, but it only took me two hours to find fabric. Fabric that was both very close to the tea cup and that I loved. When I saw it I knew it was my birthday dress.

So far I have cut the skirt out. I used my go to full circle skirt pattern.

skirt pinned to the dress-form

I plan on draping a new bodice this weekend. I'm not sure how I want the bodice to look so I putting it off for a few days.