Mad Hatter's, 2001
Event/Tour Cottages (Enesco)
Size: 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches
Issue price $120
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Welcome to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. The qwner of this remarkably bizarre house is obsessed with Lewis Carroll's famous story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Of course, there is one particular character who our man favours above the rest -- the Mad Hatter. But, "curioser and curioser:' so obsessed is he, that his house actually resembles the Mad Hatter's top hat. It's built from stone jigsaw pieces, complete with topiary hair cascading from it's rim!
   All those attending the party have to dress as characters from the book. You can imagine the surprise on his neighbours faces as they watched the procession of zany characters climb the elaborate 'tie' steps to the front door; all in costume and all very much in mad party mood. If past parties are anything to go by, the Tea Party is sure to go on into the early hours until, exhausted by their mad antics, the guests will probably collapse in a heap in the garden!