Tea Time!

I have been working really hard all day on a tea party that I'm hosting with a few of my friends. Ever since I visited London in July, I've wanted to come back and use some of my tea and cookies(oops, ate all the cookies before the party...but I've had them tempting me for 6 months! c'mon!).
So since the cookies from Harrods are all gone, I made my own Pumpkin Scones, with my favorite recipe from a Restaurant here in NYC called, "Alice's Tea Cup" and the secret to these is the clotted cream, but since I can't make it (they don't sell unpasteurized cream in grocery stores, which is the key ingredient in Europe), I made whipped cream from scratch, as taught by my mother (thanks mom!). I also made Earl Grey Tea Cookies, with a recipe from Real Simple, and I sprinkled snowflake shapes on each cookie with powdered sugar and a stencil!
The tea I'll be serving is Earl Grey from Harrods and a Vanilla Toffee tea from Tea Palace, both from London. Tea Palace is an amazing tea shop right in the middle of Covet Garden, I definitely recommend it!
I'll also be serving two types of tea sandwiches: Cucumber (duh, my favorite!) with a chive cream cheese spread, and a Chicken Guacamole sandwich. I'll have a fruit salad and some other small munchies too.
Oh I'm so excited to see some of the lovely people I've been missing for these past few months while I've been on tour!
Chris has been gone this weekend, in La (poor thing.) so I decided to have some girlie time! Pictures to come!
I also could not have done any of this without my sweet friend Kristin who lives down the street from me and is a cooking genius!
I'll have pictures up on Facebook tomorrow of our good times, and my Martha Stewart-Esq party!