Sorry for my summer hiatus! I was so excited to be the hostess to my friend's recent baby shower and had to share! I had been seeing some lovely ideas for a "Sugar and Spice" theme on both Kara's Party Ideas as well as Kara's inspiration "ModernEve"... and used the ideas to create my own. I fashioned the invitations from scrapbook paper I found, and went with a bright pink and tangerine color combination. The invitations turned out adorable!
Decor: I had a lot of fun creating this "Sugar and Spice" banner that displayed over the buffet. Also displayed on the buffet is the afternoon's "menu", something I have noticed done by catering company's. Of course, mine was completely in theme! I used Photoshop and"Shabby Princess" papers from the "Blossom" Collection. Everything was perfectly coordinated (I couldn't allow anything less!) I found lots of cute fuchsia and orange ribbons (I am a ribbon junkie!) and of course, fresh flowers abound. I also had an assortment of Izze's Sparkling Juices... in coordinating shades of orange, pink and deep red!
Food and Favors: I was originally going to use shakers full of cinnamon sugar as the invitations for the shower... but that later transformed into party favors. I ordered them about 1 1/2 weeks in advance from fooddirect.com.... and I received an email the day before the Saturday shower, Friday, that they would arrive on Monday. Nice. I had to scramble... quickly finding some itty bitty personal sized shakers at a kitchen store nearby my house. Not quite what I had in mind, but it worked.
Games: We had a lot of fun with the games. Along with the invitation I also included a little insert on the same scrapbook paper announcing the mother-to-be's registry information as well as "Pampers for Prizes". For every pack of diapers brought, they were entered in a raffle for a gift certificate. She ended up with enough diapers to last her months! We also played this Baby Shower guessing game that I saw here. We had B-Barrettes/Bows, A-Applesauce, B-Bib, Y-Yellow Rubber Duck, S-Socks, H-Hat, O-Onesie, W-Washcloth, E-Electric Outlet Plugs, R-Rattle. Some of them were really stumped! I was afraid it would be too easy, however we did end up with two winners...we had to ask the secret tie-breaking question, "How many times did mommy-to-be have to get up last night for a bathroom visit?"
I loved the little trivia idea that "Modern Eve" did at her Sugar and Spice Party, so I made one of my own. It was pretty funny and I tried to make some of the answers a little bit silly for fun.
At my best friend's baby shower years ago I made up a madlib, this time I found one pre-made here. It ended up pretty darned funny, and I made sure to print it on pretty paper for the baby-book.
All in all, I think it was a success! My dear hubby helped me so much! Our entire SUV was filled to the brim with items I had to transport. I can't wait until the next excuse for a party!
