Wordless Wednesday::You are my Sunshine

Little Boy Blue

If you haven't noticed, a few of my friends are having babies...by a few I mean 9. And I love all of these ladies and their precious angels, so we always have to celebrate them in style. Here is a quick look at the latest and greatest.

The theme was "Nursery Rhymes"

Our invite, courtesy of you-know-who

The decorations are not quite up to my regular standard, but just hear me out, school showers are held in a science lab y'all. AND "they" expect us to teach the whole day and then the shower starts directly after school. So we all would run and decorate for 15 mins at a time separately and at 3:15 it just was what it was. The theme was there, and we did our best. I think it turned out really cute, despite our limitations.

We used nursery rhyme posters we already had in the music room collection, cause that's how we roll.

And we Eliza, adorned the food table with cute nursery rhyme allusions to describe all of our goodies.

Jack and Jill....drink table

Pat-a-cake

How does your garden grow? Veggies and dip.

Peter picked a pack of pickled peppers

This little piggy had roast beef, This little piggy had none...

There are no actual pictures of us with the mom-to-be for a couple reasons. One it was a little chaotic as 60 people came in from dismissal duty and started making plates and socializing. And two it was pajama day at school, so we were all looking a little sloppy and no one wanted their picture taken. 

We figured out in the middle of the shower, it was actually perfect that the nursery rhyme shower ended up on pj day, we could have all gotten cute matching pjs with cows jumping over the moon, or little lambs etc. But, none of us thought of that until the shower. Oh well, next time!

Happy Baby Boy "Murph!"

Glamping Shower

This is very late, but back at the end of September my friends and I threw our friend Ashleigh a woodland themed baby shower. It was pretty awesome.

Here is the background on the theme. I always use nursery colors or wedding colors as a jumping off point when planning a shower. It's not always where I land, but it's a good springboard. So Ash's colors were peach, gold and cream. So I thought peaches and cream...but didn't get very far with that. Well, she also had an amazing set of deer antlers in her nursery for decor, and that got us thinking, woodland...rustic...camping...BINGO!

I mean she has two boys and a husband...so this sweet little girl on the way is about to be dropped into a boy scout troupe. But we couldn't make it completely a camping shower, cause this was about a sweet, precious, delicate little girl! Well, we had just seen the movie Moonrise Kingdom, the story of a girl running away with a boy scout and camping, only she is wearing a little pink dress, patent leather Mary Janes and carries a cute little suitcase. (Obviously there is way more to that great Wes Anderson film, but I digress.) Anyhoo, this became the theme. A rustic woodland camping shower with touches of soft peach and cream for sweet Emmylou!

So here are the pictures, which are all you wanted anyway.

First what I (ish) made:

The invite (Matt):

Then we Eliza, my most talented friend in the world, took the logo in the top corner and made a camp flag. You can't be at camp without a flag! (The wind was not really cooperateing for pictures, but you get the concept right?) And Phi mu friends, yes that is in the shape of a quatrefoil!

Next decorations:

Did you know when you turn your tension way up and sew streamers together they ruffle! Look at what's going in and then out of my machine! Sew easy! And sew cute!

All hung up

Then this sweet wreath I made by monogramming a piece of burlap and sewing it to a swatch of peach deer print fabric, then attaching it to a wreath with a satin peach ribbon, pretty self-explanatory.

I hemmed a little burlap and peach satin to make a quick table runner. BTW those are two most difficult fabrics to sew a straight line with, hence the bunching effect I went with, I mean...I did that on purpose...

You can never go wrong with a sweet baby clothesline!

A sweet notebook to write all the gifts in.

A deer head made completely out of cardboard. (Eliza, amazing I tell you)

Sweet woodland creatures scattered the table.

Since it was suppose to be a campout we had a lot of seating set up outside.

I forgot to take pictures of my homemade mason jar lanterns until it was dark...but just imagine lanterns strewn about the back fence.

Next the yummy food, that everyone else brought, you know I hate worrying about the food. 

Lara's grilled peaches with mint

Terrah's perfect shade of peach punch

Tarra's dipped marshmallows and "acorn" almonds

Jana's amazing s'more brownies, Ashley's peach cupcakes and Meredith's HOMEMADE macaroons!

Jessica's fancy pigs in a blanket

We also had trail mix and coffee somewhere in there. There was so much deliciousness!

Then it was time for gifts! Pictures of people opening gifts are never good, but I wanted to share at least one. Baby girl got several adorable things and there were lots of oohss and ahhs shared.

And that was our Glamour-Camping/Glamping shower! Another successful party on the books! We never did get a picture with the mom to be, we were having too much fun, but I think Ashleigh enjoyed it, and we all loved hosting it for her! Congrats on Peak #3!!

Pickles and Ice Cream

So I have a lot of pregnant friends right now, and one is one of my college roommates. There are six of us and we are still very close. So every time one of us gets married or has a baby we host a shower together. We throw the very best showers! That being said, we out did ourselves this time!

Alexis is the mommy-to-be, and she is having a little girl! Alexis and I bonded early in our college days over our freakish love of pickles. So even before we knew the gender we all started referring to baby C as "pickle." So the theme for the shower started there. Also preggos eat weird things like pickles and ice cream right?!? But we took it a step further, her last name is Cherry (isn't that the cutest?) so our shower would be " Pickles and Ice Cream with a (baby) Cherry on top!" Do you love it?

Flowering ice cream sundaes, and our invite

The next few pictures show off all the onesies guest brought for the baby as part of a game. Alexis had four catagories to award prizes in:

 1. Sweetest Onesie
 2. Funniest Onesie
3. Onesie that most describes Alexis
 4. Onesie that most describes the  guest who brought it

Funniest!

Most describes Alexis!

The packers onesie won for most like guest who brought it...Rhiannon-what a cheese head!

 

The one I made her, it didn't win anything! Rigged (I was in charge of games ;)

Then we had the homemade decor, courtesy of our resident Martha Stewarts LB and Beka, who I believe could teach Martha a thing or two as well!

Floral Ice Cream with a real cherry on top, and the inspirational clothing line

Sweet bib that was PERFECT for out party and just itchin' for a sweet monogram!

I mean it's true

Then we had the amazing cherry, ice cream and pickle/dill inspired menu, by Melanie and Rhiannon

Chocolate covered cherries, salmon dill crostinis, assorted pickles, ice cream cone cupcakes and more oh my!

And our favors, which were really part of the decorations were homemade pickles (sweet LB) and homemade cherry body scrub (awesome Melanie!)

And out sweet roommate Lauren, stuck in sunny California, poor her :) So we face timed her in!

I thought it turned out great! And of course just seeing and catching up with my favorite girls was the best part!