Fall Baby Shower

My daughter Jennifer is having her third child, Emerson Rhys, in January. Her sister Megan and I are preparing a Baby Shower for her.  It is going to be a gift card shower.  She has a lot of baby things, but this little guy is arriving in the winter and the other two were Summer babies.  She wanted a Fall Theme so here are a few things we have been working on.  Can't wait to put it all together.  I will post pictures of the actual shower once we have it.

 This is the invitation we made using Stampin' Up! products. Jennifer really liked one she found on  Etsy (the printable is the one on the left), but I knew I could hand stamp my own and make it similar to the one she liked.  So this is my version. I used Baked Brown Sugar Card Stock, and ink, Pumpkin Pie ink, Hardwood background stamp, Larger Than Life Alphabet and Numbers stamp set for the "b", and the little pumpkin is from the stamp set Holiday Home.  I also used our Crushed Curry and Tangerine Tango Bakers Twine.  I hand cut the little banners from our Motley Monsters and Brights Color Collection Designer Series Papers.

This is a big wooden letter that we covered with fall leaves

 I gathered pine cones on our camping trip lat month and made this garland.  I screwed  small eye rings to the tops of the pine cones and threaded jute string through them, then tied on fall fabric strips.  My floor looks dirty but the pine cones wee shedding their seeds!

This was fun!  I went out to my storage area and found these old mason jars.  Painted them with acrylic glass paint in fall colors, then distressed them.  These are all over Pinterest.  Love Pinterest!! Aren't they cute?

So this i it for now.  Still have some projects in mind to do.  Will share those later!

Thanksgiving Projects

These were 2 of the projects we did at my Thanksgiving Project class

Bird Themed Baby Shower

My daughter Megan and I gave my youngest daughter Jennifer a baby shower this past Saturday.  I have been planning it for months now and it was planned for outdoors.  Well, all who live in our area know what happened Friday....it rained and poured ALL day!  I was beside myself.  But we kept preparing and hoping that Saturday would be OK.  We went to bed late, got up early to set up and finish preparing the food.  It rained again!  Just a little, but it did put us behind a bit.  The shower started at 10 am.  I was pretty stressed, but it all went beautifully and everyone enjoyed it.  I love planning and creating parties!  It is so much fun!  Sometimes stressful, but still fun! I wanted to share some pictures with you.

Jennifer, me, Megan

 

Gift Table

Sign in Table

Favors were little bird nests with chocolate eggs and a hand stamped tag

Opening gifts.  She got so many cute outfits!!

Megan is our artist she did 3 prints for the nursery

I used an antique ironing board and an old lace window panel for part of the drink station.

We used mason jars, spray painted the lids and drilled holes in the seals, added paper straws and tags to write your name on.  I saw this idea on pinterest!

I made ice cubes with fruit to add to water and punch.

Our buffet table

 We hung birds with bakers twine.  These were made with the Big Shot and Stampin' Up's new Elegant Bird Die.

Popcorn!

Doughnut Holes and chocolate eggs

Fruit Kabobs.

I stamped the ends of the skewers!

Chicken Bacon Wraps and Crescent Cinnamon Rolls

I found these cute baby bird cupcakes on Martha Stewart's web site

Sausage Cheese Muffins

Mini yogurt Parfaits

Winners! of one of the games that Rion's mom, Rhonda planned.

Rhonda, Rion, Jennifer and Kellan

Megan enjoying her punch.

Kellan really enjoyed the box of tissue paper from all the gifts!!