LITTLE MAN BABY SHOWER {Party}

Decorative items for this shower can be purchased HERE.

Well, the shower went off without a hitch.  I will admit it was a TON of work for me….much more than I anticipated.  I was exhausted by the time the party started!  But I think all the guests had a nice time and enjoyed themselves and hopefully my sister was happy and felt loved. 

So, I am just going to post a ton of pictures from the shower.  I had some trouble taking some of the pictures due to the time of day and lighting in the room.  Hopefully you will still be able to see all the little details.  In the coming days I will post recipes for the food.  Enjoy!

How to make this printable HERE

I wanted to do something a little different with the cupcake toppers than I have seen before.  So instead of just scalloped circles I did scalloped squares and pinked circles, each in 3 different colors.  I love how they turned out! HERE is my tutorial on making cupcake topper graphics.

Cupcakes made by my sister Melinda.  We use an icing coupler to pipe the frosting because we could never find a big enough tip.  The coupler is the little white thing that makes it so you can switch out the tips on your pastry bag.  You have to find one without a little notch in it though.

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Garland inspired by THIS party.

The onesies were made with heat transfer vinyl I cut on my Silhouette.

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These hanging garlands spun around slowly all night.  Here you are seeing the back side of several of the circles.  I connected the shapes using clear fishing line and clear tape.

This was a fall colored wreath that I had spray painted white.  I added the ribbon and fabric rosettes to match my color scheme.  The twinkle lights gave a nice effect during the shower.

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Vinyl mustaches on plastic cups.

Stamped paper plates…how to HERE.

Black Bean and Corn Salsa (Made by my sister Molly)

Homemade Chips (made by my sister Molly)

Italian BOWTIE Pasta Salad (Made by my sister Laura)

Cucumber Water (SUPER refreshing!)

Oreo Truffles

Pretzel “Cigars”

Bowtie Sugar Cookies (made with a homemade cookie cutter)

Triple Dipped Strawberries (made by my sister Maggi)

Baby Caleb all dressed up + the favors.

Chocolate mustache molds can be found at Bake It Pretty

Four of my cuties in disguise!

To purchase some of the decorative items from this shower, please look here

30 Minute Organization-Ribbon Scrap Cards

Are you frugal?  Do you have a hard time throwing away things you might use later?  I sure do!  I guess you could say I am a borderline pack-rat.  Definitely not a hoarder, but I do like to be thrifty and frugal and I don’t like to waste things.

One thing I have a hard time throwing out is ribbons.  If I get a gift with a cute ribbon, I keep the ribbon.  If someone brings me a bag of treats tied with a cute ribbon I usually keep the ribbon if I think I could reuse it.  Or If I use a ribbon for a party for something I will keep it if it can be reused.  For example, the ribbons I put around the wheat grass centerpieces when I threw THIS shower were in perfect condition so I held onto them.

So, in my new craft space I have a large buffet and hutch.  One of the drawers had silverware dividers in it that just happened to perfectly hold spools of ribbon.  I got all my ribbon in the drawer but didn’t know what to do with all my pieces of ribbon that weren’t on spools.  So, here is what I decided to do:

I had this metal container and I had a bunch of these cute notecards that I got from the dollar bins at Michael’s.  I cut each notecard in half, which made them the perfect size to fit in my container.

I simply wrapped the ribbon around the cards and secured them with a straight pin.  I put 1 or 2 or 3 or more ribbons on a card depending on how wide they were.  Then I stuck them in my container.  I also stuck a magnet to the back of the container so I can stick the pins on it when I take off a ribbon.  I love the way it looks and I love how I can see all the ribbons I have and they aren’t all tangled up in a drawer.

What do you have a hard time throwing away?