Dr. Seuss baby shower

I had a great time planning and throwing this baby shower for a friend and first time mom. I found some great inspiration on Pinterest which led to some really fun things. 

A great party has to start with great invitations. I was inspired by this find on Pinterest. I collected TP tubes to start, then designed the outer label on Photoshop. I punched circles out with the info for the party on them and attached to a ribbon. I had the ribbon loop up through the outer circle to make a pull tab. I sealed both end of the tube with circles and filled with confetti. 

Here's how the invite went

It's a celebration!
The time has come,
To help (insert name)
prepare for the
arrival of her
little one.

Did you hear?
Did you see?
A baby boy is
coming,
oh what fun
he will be!

The place you
should go, the
place you should be
Why the home of
(insert name of host)
(address of shower here)

(insert date) is the date
()Pm is the time
We'll have food
We'll have fun
and friends both
yours and mine.

(insert names)
 are the ones to call
if you can't make the
party at all.

 And as usual I didn't get pictures of everything because I was too busy finishing things up when people started to arrive. I did have someone snap a few and will add those once I get them. I did get a few detail shots so I'll share those.

I designed water bottle labels and added a stripe straw.

 I found a great idea for a diaper cake and ordered the template to make one. I think it turned out very Dr. Seussy.

 For each guest who came we had these tubes full of sprinkles. The tag reads "Thank you for sprinkling "mom to be"  and baby with love"

 I had a little table by the door as guest came in and had each guest sign a Dr. Seuss book for mom and baby. The sign on the table read:

Stop here you see

and write a special message for baby.

A special wish or great advice 

or even your name would be nice.

On the front, the back or any pages

It's something (add mom's name) 

will treasure through all of the ages

I used Dr. Seuss characters and books to decorate

 as well as tissue poms and Cat in the Hat hat's which I found at Joann's

I had a game area where I had set up two tables with two different games guests could play. I know some people dread the baby shower games so I put it out and those who would like to play could. I made cupcake kits as prizes for the games but didn't get any pictures of them. You can go here to see what they basically looked liked.

The games were design a Onsie where you used fabric makers and plain white onsies and decorated it. I had some of my stamps out they could use as well. I had them hang them on a clothes line with decorated clothes pins and then the mom to be chose her favorite as the winner. The second game was guess what is in the bag. I spelled out the word BABY SHOWER on paper bags and inside placed items that started with that letter. 

This is the only shot of the food I got. We had great food. These are marshmallows dipped in chocolate and sprinkles. I love this idea of putting mini cupcake papers underneath.

I also made a bunch of "clovers" to put in some pails and boxes. I used Styrofoam balls I found at Dollar Tree and covered them in fun fur yarn. I then stuck in some stripey straws.

tasting dishes

This is one of the fun things I got this year for Christmas. My mother in law shares a love of serving dishes and well dishes in general. She sent me these super cute tasting dishes and spoons and I've found so many fun things to put in them. Now, I just need a party to use them at. . . . . . 

I'll have to get working on that. : )

ladybug party

 This year I did a ladybug theme party for my daughter. I made party hats for all the girls using scrapbook paper and cut up boa's. I also made the medallions from a tutorial I found at the TomKat Studio.

 Each girl had a ladybug coloring page, her party hat, and a box of crayons.

 I kept the treat table simple but also decorated with a few tissue pom, ladybugs, and balloons.

 I dipped Oreo's in red and brown candy melts and added my non perils for a ladybug look.

I made the labels for the water bottles as well.

 I had a cute ladybug on one of my cricket cartriges that I used throughout the party

 chocolate and powdered doughnuts to go with the polka dots in the party.

more ladybugs for cupcake toppers. I also used all my fun red and white scrapbook paper I'd been accumulating over the past year to make the cupcake wrappers.

 I love my new stand I found at HomeGoods. Some one had stripped the screws on it so it was really wobbly. I got it for a discount and went home and glued them in place and it's as good as new.


The girls got to take these ladybug takeout boxes home full of treats from the table.

 I also made these ladybug hair clips for each girl and the card they were clipped to.

 The girls had a lot of fun, maybe as much fun as I had putting this all together.


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mother/daughter dinner

Well I'm bummed because I didn't get a lot of fabulous pictures of this event. I was so occupied with everything else it completely slipped my mind until people had started eating. So this is what you get instead.

these were the tables obviously, I did mini poms and wrapped them around the napkin and silverware. Each place had their own bowl of chips and salsa.




Center pieces were the frames I painted from the dollar store and I had a few quotes about mothers and daughters with them as well.



















I had been growing this grass for a month, way longer than needed but it turned out to be super cute.

We had some great desserts, mini cheese caked, mini chocolate cupcakes, & stuffed strawberries.

Dinner was taco salad.

we also had a photo booth that the moms and daughter had their picture taken in and then we printed them out for them to take home in the frames that were on the table.

We also played the newly wed game only with questions for the mom's and daughters to answer.

I had so much fun putting all this together, can't wait to do another party!

prep & gather

I've been out gathering things and finding inspiration. I found these beauties at my local DI. I like the shape of the smaller and the detail on the larger frame and knew these would be perfect.
I'm still on the hunt for at least another two frames but this was a great start.

The colors I'm using are teal, lime, white and brown. I LOVE this frame that I got at Hobby Lobby, (so much so I got it in black as well). I'll be using it on the table in the hall with a Welcome sign in side. The small stand I made from a candlestick and a candle plate from the dollar store, and the large cake stand I found at HomeGoods, LOVE that place!!!

For the centerpieces on the tables I'm growing grass in those white buckets, which I found in the dollar bins at Target. They're coming along great and will be so cute. I'll change out the white ribbon for either brown, teal, or lime. The candlestick is something I have in my bedroom that I found at Real Deals. I think I'll use it one the welcome table with a teal tissue pom on top.

I'm so excited to put this all together but still have LOTS of work to do. I'm gathering tissue to make my poms from and fabric for flowers and small frames for the girls to take but it's been so fun planning.

More to come!!

Picture Perfect in the works

I am SO excited to have some kind of entertaining in the works again. This time it's a Mother/daughter activity for Young Woman's. The plan is for a taco salad bar and chips and salsa for the dinner and then play the Newly Wed game with adapted questions for the mothers and daughters.

I've already thought up the color scheme I want to use and a "theme" to go with it. It's going to be a "Picture Perfect" night. I've had this image in my head since I saw it back in February on Hostess with the Mostess.

I'm going to use frames on the table that I've found at DI and painted white and teal. As well as having one to use in a photo booth that the mom's and their daughters can use to take a picture to take home.

I can't seem to fall asleep at night with ideas running through my mind. I'm so excited to be planning again!!!

I'll post as I develop more ideas. : )

Peppermint Perfection

Last week we had our annual girls night cocoa party. This year's theme was Peppermint Perfection, and was it ever. The best part about these parties is that I get to do them with the two most amazing girls I know. We had so much fun prepping and getting things together and it was all worth the hard work to see the end result.

The invitation we made to look like a peppermint with a peppermint treat inside.

This is the table scape

We had some really yummy food this year. White chocolate covered pretzels with red and white nonpareils, chips and homemade salsa, cheese ball and crackers, sugar cookies, dipped Milano's, and of course all the toppings for our hot cocoa.

I used a lot of my decorations off my tree at home for this party, it was fun to put them to another use.

For our favors this year, though you can't see exactly what they are, we did milk and white chocolate on a stick that you could stir into hot milk for a yummy treat.

I has so much fun designing the invites and tags for the party. Thanks again Dacia and Lynne for being my partners in crime. Love ya!

*all pictures taken by Dacia (she did a great job) Lynne took some too but I'm waiting to see those so they may be added later.