Children’s Toy Sets

What is cuter than a little girl's toy tea set? Toy tea sets are beautiful and they become collector's items that are passed down as heirlooms (that is if someone does not manage to lose a cup or a pot along the way.) The teapots are really small and typically hold two to five ounces of liquid and the tea cups often just hold an ounce or two of liquid. Most of these little China tea pot sets also come with cute little creamers and sugar containers and sometimes little spoons of either china or silver to match.

One of the most popular motifs for toy teapots is bunnies. There are toy china tea sets made with bunny, mice and duck images by story teller and illustrator Beatrix Potter n them but there are many different realistic portrayals of bunnies on childs tea pots. However when it comes to gorgeous little teapots and cups Beatrix Potter is not the only game in town. There are many more anonymous illustrators and designers out there that have put their designs on teapots and the bunnies are equally as cute an equally as realistic.

You can get teapot collections made by Disney, but like the Beatrix Potter collections they have become a bit too common and corny. The company called Cardew makes a unique European looking Snow White teapot that features her and the seven dwarfs and that does not look much like the Disney version of the popular storybook character. If you think Disney is too corporate it is a good idea to look around for something less commercial. It does exist.

Reutter Porcelain is a great company that makes all kinds of different storybook character based tea sets. One of their nicest lines is their Alice in Wonderland line which features pictures of Alice playing croquet with the Pink Flamingo and The Red Queen. The illustrations are based on the original ones by Lewis Carroll.

There are also some companies that simply make tinier versions of their adult collectible teapots. These have beautiful floral patterns and nice gold trim. Madison is quite a famous old company that makes beautiful tea sets that are packed in a beautiful designer paper and wood box that matches the pattern on the tea set.

The nice thing about these teapots is that they already come wrapped. Many sets come in nice boxes or even wood cases. Quite a few are packed for gift giving in their own closing and locking picnic baskets.

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Tiaras for Little Girls

Do you have a little girl who has the honor of being a flower girl at a wedding? If this is a case it means that she might have to wear a tiara. There might be other reasons why she might need to wear a tiara as well. For instance, many children that model in beauty pageants need to wear not one but several tiaras.

Believe it or not, they make tiaras for children as young as one year old. However a tiara that is made out of crystals, pearls or jewels can actually hurt a baby's head. For the most part a tiara goes best on the head of a kid that has a lush full head of hair and on kids that can wear their hair stacked up on top of their head in a bun style. Without this in place the child's tiara can fall off his or her head.

You do not need to go to a specialty store to buy a tiara for a child. Many bridal and tiara specialty places sell them for children. Furthermore most tiaras can be adjusted to fit any head-size including a child's. Usually all it takes is bringing your kid to the tiara store so she can try one on to see if it fits. If you are ordering it online measure your child's head to make sure that it is not going to be so big that it falls off of her skull.
Tiaras for little flower girls can be the sweetest little pieces of hair jewelry you have ever seen in your life. Many have a heart shape design in the center that fans out on the sides and are constructed of pearls and rhinestones. Usually a much larger diamond or pearl dangles in the center of the tiara.

You can get tall pointed styles that look like crowns or you can get flatter shapes that are more like headbands and a bit gentler on the head. You can also get them with centers that are in the shape of monograms or the first letter of your child's name in the center. Common tiaras that are replicated are the Princess Grace, Shirley Temple, America Pageant, Princess Diaries, Audrey Hepburn, Princess Kate and Princess Diana.

One fun thing to do is throw a tiara party for all of the princesses in your neighborhood. There is nothing that little princesses love more than wearing their delightful crowns.

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