Baby Shower Success!

Well the baby shower went great and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. I was very happy with how it all turned out and best of all the mother and father of the new little one loved it as well. As I told you before the theme was "Christmas in Pink". I showed you the invites on an earlier post, now I will show you the rest of the decorations.All the gifts were put under the Christmas tree. The lights were dimmed with only the spot lights on and jazz Christmas music playing in the background. It was a great ambiance.



Beautiful snowflakes adorned the ugly window treatments.
Mini diaper cakes served as table centerpieces with the favors beside them. The favors consisted of mixed Hershey Kisses with personalized labels on the bottoms.

A diaper wreath made a beautiful focal point for the buffet table.
The head table was decorated with a medium sized diaper cake along with a baby bouquet and and two sock corsages for mommy and daddy to be.

Dessert consisted of a cupcake tower and an 8inch round cake to match. The flavors were strawberry cheesecake, lemon, and the cake was pineapple.
Once the shower began, all the guest made scrapbook pages for the new baby and put them into this lovely scrapbook. Its a great keepsake for the honorees, but it was also a lot of fun for the guests too. There were small children in attendance, so this was great to keep them entertained as well.

Well, the shower is over and now I am working away this week on a Christmas party for my church . Pics and ideas will be coming soon for that event!

Blessings,
Stacey

Baby shower games and gifts

Today I am finalizing the games for the baby shower. One game that I have decided on and will share with you is the "Candy Bar Game." There are many versions of this game, but the way I chose to play it is to list the clues and answers on a sheet of paper and give the guest 5mins to see who could get the most right. The person with the most right will win the prize (which I will show you how to make later). Here is the list of possible clues and answers. I chose to use only 10 of them, mostly because I had a hard time finding all of the coordinating candy, but you can use as many as you like. The left side is the clue, and the right side is the answer, which is also the name of the corresponding candy

Contractions/or 11 pound baby= Whoppers
Grandparents/or Epidual=Lifesavers
Boys' Names=Mike & Ike
Umbilical Cord=Twizzlers
Father=Sugar Daddy
Baby Fat=Chunky
Girl's Name=Baby Ruth
Use your Eyes=Look
Cover Baby's Face with These=Hershey's Kisses
Hospital Bills/ or College Fund= 100 Grand
Time Alone=Zero
Lull-a-Byes=Symphony
Diapers, Formula, Medicine:, or Hospital Bills= Payday
First Year of Parenthood= Rocky Road
Dirty Laundry/or Engorgemement: Mounds
Night of Conception=Skor
Sweet Infant=Sugar Babies
Breast Feeding=Milky Way
Poopie Diaper=Tootsie Roll
Contractions=Now & Later
Triplets=3 Muskateers
Teething=Crunch
Cool Mom=Peppermint Patty

The gift for this game will be all 10 of the candy bars that I used to play it with. I didn't want to just hand out the candy by itself, so I decided to make a candy bouquet. If you want to make one, here is how you do it.

Find a container, small basket, or a medium sized terracotta pot (which is what I will be using)


Next you will want to put a piece of floral foam into the container. Make sure it fits snug so that your bouquet doesn't fall out!




Next you will need some craft sticks and your candy. Make sure you get the wider craft sticks because they will offer more support for your candy.


Then hot glue your sticks onto the backs of your candy.


Next, insert your sticks and candy into the foam and play around with the arrangement until you are happy with it (make sure your glue is completely dry before you do this or your candy will fall off.....I added some ribbon and a bow to my container as I was waiting for the glue to dry).


Then you can add basket shred to help hide the foam if there is any showing. I added some Hersey Kisses on top of my shred as well. You could also add flowers or anything else creative you can think of.


If you like you can wrap it in cellophane and top it off with a bow. Now you have a beautiful gift that everyone will be dying to win that game for!



Blessings
Stacey

BFF Baby Shower!

This Saturday is my BFF's baby shower that I am hosting! It's been a lot of work, but definitely will be worth it to see the look on her face. The theme is "Christmas in Pink" since she is having a sweet baby girl around the Christmas season. The colors are light pink, silver, and white. I think the colors just look spectacular together, especially with the settle Christmas theme. The glitter effect is just so girly and glam.

Here's a pic of the invitation to get everyone in the Christmas/Baby spirit. (sorry for the harsh black outs, but I didn't want all my friend's info posted)


My cousin does invitations so she made the perfect invite for this type of event, then I just added the glittery ribbon around the edges for her scrapbook. You probably can't see it too well on the pic, but there is also iridescent glitter on the snowflakes and baby carriage. Sooooooooooooooooooooooo cute! I wish you could see it in person!

I will be working on this all week, so stay tuned for more pics and details on this event.