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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Waddle It Be? Reynolds Baby Shower!

I was so excited to get to plan a baby shower for my friend Laura. And something else that made it really exciting is that they are waiting to find out the gender of their baby until birth, so i needed a gender neutral theme! I found ducks on pintrest and fell in love with the all the bright yellow! One thing that i was really excited about was the floral arrangements. Putting the lemon in the mason jar added that natural boost of yellow to the flowers!  photo DSC_01812b.jpg I had asked our mom to be her favorite cake and she told me it was salted carmel cake that her family had all though her childhood. Naturally i was terrified i wouldn't live up to expectations, I used a recipe from , for the salted carmel frosting and it was sooo good!  photo DSC_0139b.jpg And then there was our onsie banner! i used twine and clothes pins to hang theme oriented onsies in from of a modified ribbon banner. instead of ribbon i used burlap. I am very pleased with how that turned out. what do you think?  photo DSC_0142b.jpg To keep the theme going I made Almond Shortbread duck cookies! They were adorable and delicious!  photo DSC_0140b.jpg  photo DSC_0149b.jpg  photo DSC_0148b.jpg  photo DSC_0145b.jpg I am so pleased with how this shower turned out! And even more please with how happy our mom to be was!! Blessed to have given them such a memorable shower. Now we wait to meet this sweet baby!

Bowtie Or Bow?? Gender Reveal Party

I had the great pleasure of planning and hosting a gender reveal party for my great friend and neighbor. We loved the theme "bowtie or bow?" and were really inspired by the vintage rustic trend right now, so naturally our colors were soft pink and vintage blue. TO save money i made most everything myself, starting with the invitations.  photo IMG_3053-blog.jpg I found a paper pattern i liked that match our theme. I ended up going with graphic 45, Little Darlings paper pack. each invitation was slightly different but buying the one pack was a very affordable. I enlisted the help of my sisters cricut to cut all my bows and bowties and designed the back off of a vintage poster. Add a little (or a lot) of double sided sticky tape and viola! I made the burlap banner by printing my images full scale and tracing them onto the burlap with a fabric marker. Then i strung it on twine. it was really easy and very affordable. I made my chalk board out of an old cheap frame that i distressed with some acrylic paint and sand paper. The Chalk board part was chalk board contact paper which was much more affordable. it worked great on the small frame for the tally marks but for the big one it had quite a few bubbles that I couldn't remove. it ended up looking fine, but up close it is very bumpy! in the future i will make my own chalk board paint, which would also be a cheaper option than buy it pre-made. the cake was a banana cake with brown sugar cream cheese frosting. I absolutely loved the flags on top! i used left over paper from my Little Darlings packet and just cut and stuck them to the ends of skewers. for some added texture i added some ribbon as well. For the banner across the top of the cake I wanted a stamped look but didn't want to buy all the stamps so i download a "stamp font" and it turned out great! they looked stamped!  photo IMG_3042blog-1.jpg It was really fun to plan and host this party for such good friends! And they are very excited to announce they are having their second son! Welcome to the 2 boy club my friend!  photo IMG_3057blog-1.jpg