This is just lovely

Elizabeth Anne Designs

Beautiful.  Had to post just so I wouldn't lose it. :)

Baby Season

No, this is not an announcement. :) We have several women in our ward expecting this month and in the next few coming. We had a baby shower today for two of these women - both are having girls. One, I visit teach. She's close to my age and it is their first child. The other sweet woman is having their 4th but had given their baby stuff away since their youngest is now 2. I did games and decorations - that seems to be my assignment each time. I found this idea and tutorial a while back and kept it for such an occassion as this. I used bigger flowers but think it turned out super cute. It was swagged above the table of gifts. Originally we were going to swag it a couple times in the middle of the room so we made the string pretty long - maybe 15 or so feet and the flowers would be further apart. We ended up just hanging it from the two air vents and it worked out great.

One game we played was Pin the Pacifier on the Baby. The baby was posted on the wall and the pacifiers were cute little pink ones. All-in-all, it was good. I just wanted to show my cute garland off. (Thanks DeLynne for helping me make the flowers.) Also, DeLynne did a great baby gift as a flower box She has lotions, and cucumber-melon baby wipes, a cute color coordinating outfit, (coordinating of course) hair bow, and some wash cloths...super cute. I'm going to throw it out there that I did the little card on the front. :) The one's last name is Wright so W and on the back it says, "What whirl...it's a girl!" and the other's last name is Seagraves so S and on the back it says, "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice..." Hold your applause. :)

Final Blowout

Thank you Debra and Liz - it wouldn't have been half as good without your help! The pictures are of the spread, one game I like to call "Mommy and baby" and the decorations we did in the Relief Society Room. It turned out cute. Shout out to Taryn for the clothesline idea. The baby is super cute - she was 5 weeks early. 4 lb 14 oz if I'm not mistaken. She hit 6 lbs today. Her little burpy cloth thing was cute so I took some pictures.

One Down...

I got to give Michelle at work a baby shower. yeah! I posted the Halloween inspired invites earlier. Everything came down to today. I think it was a success! Here are a few pictures of the cute notes we put on the table with the food. I had my pumpkins and mummy on display and we had black, white, and orange balloons adorning the food and present tables. We had orange and black eating utensils and paper products as well. I made a diaper cake for Michelle's present and to do double duty as decoration. Here are the pictures. We used little socks for the rosettes (flower wanna be's) and some ribbon. The blanket we stuffed down the center of the cake so it wasn't too long and then stuck the bear on for a little extra something. I think it turned out cute. We've got another one at the next baby shower for a girl. I'll post some pictures. People told me they had fun at this shower and were all impressed with the decorations and execution. That's good. :) Julie and I put some effort into this. :)

Numero Dos

The baby shower is also in October but is not Halloween themed. The pictures make the invites look large, but they're just little pass outs or reminders - not large invites. This is pretty much all that I've been up to.

Lil' Pumpkin Baby Shower

Three girls at work are pregnant and due within weeks of each other. The first one is having their baby shower the end of October so we decided to do a take off Halloween for her shower's theme. Good thing she loves Halloween :)

I tried and tried to find party invites that didn't say Happy Halloween on them and didn't have a skull and crossbones on it. Apparently, there's not a big demand for that kind of invite or for Halloween Stationary. :) I put these together to hand out. I had to start doing the wrapped thread since I ran out of the ribbon. I bought the 4 rolls they had left at Hobby Lobby, but it wasn't quite enough. Just thought I'd share my weenend project with you. I've made 25 of these so far. I've got to count again and make sure it's enough.