You know you are in your thirties when FIVE people who are close to you are pregnant all at the same time!!! One sister, one cousin, one best friend, one aunt, and one friend, all waddling around on sore feet with their varying-sized bumps, feeling sick and bloated, as they ready themselves for that day when they can come home with a brand new person in their arms.
When my sister complained of her morning sickness, which has been effecting every aspect of her life for the past two months, my friends mom said to her: "Oh, hang in there. It'll tough for only a few more months," then quickly added, "Plus twenty years."
Today was my best friend's baby shower. Wanting to be original and creative in our planning of this event, we came up with some wonderful ideas for decorations that WOWed the guests and did not break the bank.
CLOTHING LINE as DECORATION
One fun decorative element to add to an outdoor baby shower is the baby clothing line. To create this line, three of us pitched in and got the mom-to-be cute clothes for her soon-to-arrive daughter. She'll get to keep all the clothes in the end, but in the meantime, the clothes can work hard to add a decorative element that made every guest squeal with delight. After all, who doesn't love seeing miniature clothes hanging on a line??
CENTERPIECES:
Pacifier flower Bouquet
The thought of making flowers with pacifiers in their center came to me when we were trying to come up with some centerpiece ideas for the baby shower. What if we had a different centerpiece for each table? We thought, AND, what if each centerpiece was made of something that a baby would use??
We wanted the centerpieces to be baby-centric, practical, and simple. All the other centerpieces are self-explanatory. And the best part about them: They can be used even AFTER the shower is over and all the guests have gone home.
Rubber Duckies in a bowl
Baby's First Piggy Bank
Baby's First Picnic Basket
The fans were a perfect decorative and practical addition to each table and were hand made out of colorful papers.
WISHING TREE
For this wishing tree we cut colorful sheets of paper into 3" x 3" pieces, which we trifolded and hole punched. A small piece of ribbon fed through the hole gave the guests a way to fasten their best wishes onto the tree. The tree is a branch which as been spray painted to give it that shiny silver finish.
Side Note: I cannot wrap my mind around what an incredible miracle it is that a being can grow INSIDE another being!!! And speaking of things that should be impossible (but aren't): It is no less of a miracle what trees and plants do. What machine, for instance, can take dirt and water and sunlight and turn it all into a juicy, sweet, nutritious apple? The creation of life blows me away...
Great post! We recently had a baby shower for my sister and we used the clothing line decoration as well! It was so adorable, worked excellent as a decoration, and was easy to clean up (since they were all presents, obviously!). I just love the miniature clothes and maybe it's just me since I don't have children yet and I've never really had too much of a need to buy infant clothing, but golly gee, some of the outfits were absolutely adorable! Can't believe some of the stuff they make now for babies! BTW love the wishing tree idea, we'll have to use that one next time. Thanks!
Posted by: Dolce and Gabbana Junior | December 30, 2011 at 05:13 AM