Here is a link to learn more about this music event in the Memphis area to benefit one of our own members, Laurel Childs. She is currently fighting hard to beat ovarian cancer and was the featured speaker at a BHTP event in Tennessee this past spring. If you can help, I know the family would appreciate it, but more than anything they ask for your prayers. You can make a donation even if you don't live in the area and/or can't attend the concert.… Continue

The Wall Street Journal online offered this article this week!
Toward Earlier Detection of Ovarian Cancer

We all know the excitement of planning an event...ANY event...the adrenalin rush of making all your deadlines. It's like one of those "extreme sports" for party planners! And, so it is perfectly natural that, after the perfect party has been executed, the adrenalin rush subsides and the "hostess with the mostess" plops down in a chair completely exhausted but with a smile of contentment on her face. It is perfectly natural to then focus on the clean-up, while floating on air, reminiscing about t… Continue

If your schedule (and your life) is just too busy to commit to the official date for a Blue Hydrangea Tea Party event, consider choosing an alternate date that is more convenient for you. We welcome any and all tea party registrations! Just follow the registration process and add your alternate date in the "Comments" section of the fill-in at www.BHTP.ORG. Remember that your registration is the only way have to gauge the success of Blue Hydra… Continue

This might help others with ideas for their own parties. Be as detailed as your care to be about your plans for your guests, including the number of people you will be entertaining and how you will accomodate them, etc. and any special touches that you plan to incorporate. We are always amazed at the creativity of our hostesses!

Create a profile and enjoy the camaraderie of other tea party hostesses. You can share ideas and encourage each other as we "stir up the chatter" about ovarian cancer. Help us bring other women into the circle of awareness....

For information on our annual campaign to promote ovarian cancer awareness visit www.BHTP.ORG. Our goal is to raise money for the various organizations that promote awareness and research into this deadly disease. We do this by registering hostesses for private parties where individual donations are made directly to the organization each hostess chooses to support. Blue Hydrangea Tea Party (TM) does not accept donations.