Golden Book Baby Shower

You know what is hard for a party planner? Having someone else plan a party for you. Handing over the reigns can be very challenging, but so rewarding.  When I was pregnant with Little B I had already thrown 2 beautiful baby showers for my best friend.  I was tickled pink that she wanted to return the favor.  Because the gender of Little B was a surprise a gender neutral shower was a little more challenging. I gave her a few links to ideas that I liked and then stepped back and was surprised when I walked in that afternoon.

I am pleased to present my Golden Books Gender Neutral Baby Shower!!


          
 

Inspiration and printed party supplies from Aesthetic Nest

Shabby Chic Tea Baby Shower

I was honored to be able to plan and host a baby shower for my very best friend.  She is expecting her second little boy, so early in the planning we decided it would be a small intimate affair at a local garden restaurant. 

As guests sat down they were greeted with a packet. I found an adorable poem:

Inside the packet was a few games for the guests to play while we waited for lunch to arrive.  There was a celebrity baby matching game and a fill in the blank “mother” game.  Since we were not playing for prizes I included the answers at the back of the packet. The best part of the packet was the labor story mad lib game that I found.  The mom-to-be actually collected the stories at the end because they were so funny.

I knew that the tables would be small, so I made a small topiary for each table and limited the “extras” to a water bottle and favor.  We did bring our own tablecloths.  The ones at the restaurant are a fruit pattern that didn’t match my color scheme.

The water bottle labels were very simple and only said “Welcome Baby Ben”

The favors were little boxes that I cut out of kraft paper with my Cricut.  I attached a teacup to each favor and instructed guests to write their name on them to be used during the drawing for door prizes. The candy inside was a miniature Take 5 bar – the Mom-to-be’s favorite candy bar.

     

The shower was exactly what I had hoped for, a small quite affair that honored the Mom-to-be.  The best part was that there was very little clean up!  That is always my least favorite part of any shower.

35th Birthday Party

I had hoped to be able to throw a fantastic birthday party for my husband's 35th birthday this year. He had never had a birthday as a child growing up, so I wanted his 35th to be special. I had it all planned in my head. A San Diego Charger's theme with a yellow and blue color scheme to match. I hired Sugar Mama Cakes to make him a lightening bolt cake. I asked our friend at HD Audio to set up his DJ equipment so that we had music. I planned a great menu of all his favorite foods (carne asada, faijtas, chile con queso dip, jalepeno popper dip and all the trimmings) I did not expect life to get in the way. His first birthday party ever was not what I thought it would be, but we had a wonderful time with the friends that were able to come and celebrate with us.  We had LOTS of cake left over, but I don’t think that is a problem when you have a chocolate cake with peanut butter filling.

 

Super 8 Party

For my son’s 8th birthday we made it a “Super 8” party.  I made a super sized rainbow layered cake, that I surrounded with Super Heros.  We held the party at a new “Super” location in town called the Fun Factory.  They have everything a kid would want: miniature golf, go karts, water bumper boats, an arcade and a Wii on a Super-sized screen in the party area.  The kids had unlimited access to the activites and they took full advantage!

Party Planning: Shabby Chic Baby Shower

My best friend found out last week that she is having a boy! Now I get to start planning for her baby shower. Since this is her second baby, we scaled down the guest list and picked one of her favorite restaurants. It is cute local garden cafe with a tea store attached, so I have decided on a fun baby theme: A Baby Boy is Brewing

It will be a shabby chic tea party with no games, just a great atmosphere with friends and family to help her celebrate. Her first baby shower was Brown and Sage. The colors this time will be more muted; robin’s egg blue, sage green, butter yellow.

celebrations at home

amy atlas

I will make the custom invitations again, these are a few of the Scrapbook Kits I have picked out:

The Very Thought of You by Krystal Hartley and ScrapKitchen Designs

Shabby Baby by Misty Cato and Krystal Hartley

Baby O' Mine-Boy by Melissa Bennett

I have a feeling this party is doing to turn out adorable. What do you think?

Before There Was Baby

In 2004 I put together a Baby Shower for our daughter with the help of her dear friend Martha. As I look back on these earlier events, I am amazed as to how far we have come.



She was (okay, may I was helping her)putting together a Tinkerbell Nursery so we used the colors sage, purple, pink and yellow from the nursery for the decorations. The cradle below was my daughters' when she was born and I used a patchwork pattern for the bedding I made for the nursery. To make the canopy I used an embroidery hoop, netting and trim.