Thanksgiving Eve Tea

It's Thanksgiving Eve

A day usually spent in the kitchen

But we still take time for tea

(although an early tea today)

In the dining room

With the turkeys!

Spode Blue Italian is our tea ware of choice

And cookies for tea this afternoon

My cutout cookies

cut with the turkey cookie cutter

(which I've never used before)

And tail "feathers" sprinkled with red and orange sugars

Not my idea

No, I found similar turkey cookies in Minnesota

at Kolwaski's

Which made a perfect tea time treat one afternoon

when we visited last week

And I figured that they would be a new tradition

these Thanksgiving Eve Turkey Cookies

I knew I had a turkey cookie cutter

(one of those copper colored ones from the 50s -- perhaps it was Mother's -- I'm not sure

because I don't remember ever baking turkey cookies!)

I baked one batch and sent them off to Minnesota for the Grands.

Another batch today for tea.

I love the Eve days before the Holidays.