It's Raining... Babies?

Not quite as catchy as the Weather Girls version but whatevs.

Hallelujah!
I'm here to report on a baby shower that a few of us threw for our good friend Christina.  We had a really fun time planning it and since we decided to have it at someone's house and do the majority of the work ourselves it was extra rewarding.  We think everyone had a really fun time and that the mom-to-be was happy with it.  Here are a few highlights:

Our color theme was green, yellow and grey.   Sara got the flowers from a florist friend and they turned out to be so pretty. 

We had a storybook theme so everything centered around that.  Sara made up some games for people to play.  We got the alphabet cards on Amazon and gave them to Christina after.

And everyone brought their favorite childhood book for the new baby.

We also had a craft for people to do since Christina, and the two of us of course, love crafty things.  We supplied plain onesies that people could applique their own design on. 

I was in charge of most of the food.  For apps we had a little table with cheeses, fruit, rosemary nuts and spinach cheese squares.

Aren't the flowers gorgeous?  Sara made the yellow runners out of a shower curtain.  Artsy craftsy!

For the main course I made chinese pasta salad with peanut sauce and a shrimp and mango salad in endive.  The highlight was the samosas that I bought from Christina's (and my) favorite Indian restaurant.

  Yes yes yes!

For dessert I made a baklava and carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.  I got these little paper wrappers off of Etsy.  

Wrapped but with bare heads!

Frosted.

I could just lick the screen.  But that would be gross.

I decided to top off the cupcakes with little storybook flags. I got some old children's books from the book shop in the public library.

Then I went through them picking out the illustrations that would fit in my hole punch.

It's the Poky Little Puppy!

 I love Richard Scarry.

So I just punched them out.

 Until I had a whole slew of 'em.

Then I glued them onto toothpicks. I had a picture on the front and text on the back.

Here is how the dessert table looked.

Sara made up the sweetest little favors for everyone.  It was a mini Envirosax bag with an Orla Kiley notebook.  Then she got pens with each guest's initial on the top.  

A good time was had by all but I think the best part was in the planning and doing.  Christina's friend Kara supplied her house for the festivities and our other friend, Christina (aka as "other Christina") helped get supplies and prizes for the games.  We had so much fun coming up with ideas and bringing them to life.  And I guess it worked because Christina now has a beautiful, healthy girl. 

More on my gifts to her in an upcoming post.

Byeeeee!