baby girl

I wanted to do a couple catch up blogs from past baby showers. This one is one I co-hosted with a friend in 2011. I wish I had more pictures, but my camera battery died during that one. It was super cute and fun and sparkly.

We added jewels to flowers cut out on my cricut (paper lace cartridge) for the labels and to scatter around the table and we bought a few more sparkly jewels and hanging crystals to scatter around too.

Check out the super fun crystals we hung from the tissue poms! (the instructions for making the poms are on the martha stewart website)

I made some home-made jewel/gem shaped candies for the party favors. You can find the molds for the candies HERE. They take a couple tries to get the color just right and the timing of pouring the super hot sugar!

Pretty right?! I want to do another Bling party!!

I suppose some of you remember when I did an owl baby shower last year for my friend’s baby boy? Well, recently I hosted another owl shower for a little girl and it looked completely different!! It was such a fun shower to do because my friend just adopted a baby girl, so the little one was able to come to her own baby shower and it was just such a sweet time celebrating this wonderful act of love and redemption.

The inspiration for the shower was the crib bedding they chose for the nursery from Pottery Barn Kids here. I have to thank Renee, Katy, Meghan, and Lisa for helping me with the food, supplies and decorations. I didn’t even have to do any of the food prep, so I am very thankful for that!

banner thanks to the handy Cricut! 🙂

I love this shot of the guests of honor chatting on the chair! It is precious.

Renee painted this lovely design on the wood letters and also the bird houses. The branches, birds and 2 owls are printed on cardstock, cut and taped to pictureshelves (or wall).

So cute, right?

Found this adorable owl at a local gift shop!

The food table

The topiaries were made by painting ceramic pots, inserting a piece of styrofoam in the bottom (covered up with some dried filling stuff), painted wooden dowel, the top is a styrofoam ball (I did paint this a quick covering of pink before I started)covered with paper flowers and leaves (cricut flower shop cartridge) and attached with a pearl stick pin.