Posted on June 9th, 2011 by Brenda | Comments Off
Recently we hosted a baby shower for a dear friend. Since the baby was adopted from India, we thought it would be fun to incorporate a Bollywood theme, full of bright & cheerful colors. To make it even more fun, we had a menu of cookies and milk.
Gold elephants flanked each side of the dessert buffet and were spruced up with little blankets.
A Wishing Well greeted guests as they arrived and the table provided a spot to place gifts. Glass vases filled with Cookie Crisp cereal (ties in with cookie theme) and daisies were scattered throughout the party.
The table centerpiece was created with painted branches, tissue pom poms and butterflies.
Guests were able to write a message to the family on colorful elephant and monkey die-cuts and then hang the message on the tree.
Beverages included coffee and three flavors of milk: white, chocolate and caramel.
The cookie buffet consisted of lots of yummy cookies displayed on pedestals and in varying sized jars tied with ribbon.
It was a lovely afternoon to welcome a new baby to the family!
Posted on March 21st, 2010 by Brenda | Comments Off
Recently I had the pleasure of co-hosting a baby shower for my friend Tamara. Since the baby is a girl, we chose a pink and brown color scheme.
The invitation:
The day of the shower brought lovely weather and we were able to have the party on one of the host's lanai. Since the buffet was so pretty and the outdoors were all around, we kept decorations to a minimum.
One the wall of the lanai we strung a pink clothesline held by 2 sequined butterflies. On the clothesline we used pink clothespins to hang an assortment of baby outfits, which were later given to the mother-to-be as a gift (forgot to take picture).
The buffet table was divided into savory foods, beverages & the candy and dessert buffet.
The savory menu included cheese & crackers, vegetables and dip, fruit and dip and chips & salsa.
In keeping with the color scheme, all of the candy and desserts were picked in pink or brown.
Here is pink cotton candy in customized cups. I pleated and glued pink crepe streamers to Wilton nut cups. Around the middle I glued a strip of scrapbook paper. The tags are brown cardstock circles with Martha Stewart "It's A Girl" transfers.
Hershey Bars wrapped in scrapbook paper:
An assortment of yummy candy:
These little favor boxes were used for guests to hold candy. They were purchased plain 12/$1 at Dollar Tree. They are decorated with ribbons and plastic baby carriages charms.
The water bottles were decorated with scrapbook paper, ribbon and plastic pacifier charms.
One of my favorite drinks is Sonic's Diet Cherry Limeade. I tried to recreate this with Sprite Zero, maraschino cherry flavoring (found in ice cream topping aisle of the grocery store), lime juice and lime slices for color. We also had a yummy punch made with Sprite, pineapple juice and pink sherbet.
Chinet cups were rimmed with lime juice and pink sanding sugar.
We played 3 games at the shower. One was the traditional "How Big is Mother's Belly." A second game played was "The Price Is Right."
Guests had to guess the price of 8 baby items. The guest with the most correct won a prize and all of the baby items were given to the Mother-To-Be.
The third game was "Bun In The Oven." I made felt dresses with a small slit cut into the back which allowed a cotton ball to be inserted into the dress (looks like a baby bump!). Guests were asked to take one dress. When everyone had a dress, they pulled out the cotton ball looking for the "bun" (made from my daughter's playdough and painted with white icing and glitter). The person who found the bun won a prize.
These favors were these little paper Mary Janes (
find pattern here) filled with Dove chocolate eggs. The extra shoes were filled with raffia grass and flowers and used as decorations on the buffet table.
Here is the Mother-To-Be opening her gifts:
It was a wonderful shower spent with good friends!
