Precious Cargo Baby Shower Decor

Back in March, I co-hosted a baby shower for my friend. The theme was Precious Cargo. It was really fun to plan. Here's our Pinboard: Precious Cargo Baby Shower Inspiration Our colors were red, white and blue and we decorated with air planes, boats, globes, and luggage, as you will see!

Here are some pictures of the decor:

Here's the food table. We had some Jelly Belly candies in the colors of the shower, chicken salad sandwiches, a relish tray, a fruit tray (it came later, so not pictured), mini ice box cakes with strawberry whipped cream, and a banner cake. For decor, the honoree had the boat, cloud paper and typewriter. My co-host brought the glasses and straws.

Banner cake: banner by me (made with my Silhouette) and cake by my co-host.

Guests came in and picked up their travel passports. Inside were the supplies for all the games and other shower activities including:

Travel advice cards. Made by me =) Sign made by honoree (She was very happily involved)

Here's the whole table. I loved the globe she had and it fit perfectly with the theme!

This amazing chalkboard style art was made by the honoree (she is so talented) and so was the banner.

"Drop your luggage here" sign to show where the gifts went as well as some vintage luggage =)

Airplane banner by honoree. So fun!

Fun and Easy Baby Shower Game: Baby Bingo!

I think this is the best baby shower game ever. Why? It's low key, people can still visit while it's happening, the honoree gets to open presents and it gives people something to do while opening presents. I like watching the honoree open presents but it can sometimes be a little long or awkward...Am I the only one who feels this way?

So at the shower I helped with the day before I gave birth (humblebrag) we played this game and it was a hit! Not everyone played but those who did had a good time. Those who don't like games just visited and it was great. The only downside is that you wouldn't want to play this game at a small shower: the honoree needs to get a lot of gifts!

Here's how to play: Guests fill in the blanks with different gifts you think the mom-to-be will receive at the shower. Ideas: Bibs, socks, books, stuffed animal, diapers, etc. Each board will be different! As the mom-to-be opens gifts, the guests mark off the corresponding box. Once a guest gets 5 gifts in a row it's a BINGO!

Download the Word Document Here!

Don't forget to pick up a few prizes! I just bought some candy bars and wrapped them in scrapbook paper and twine. 

Paper Bag Scrapbook

Do you remember how I helped plan a monster themed baby shower? Well with all the pictures on my camera I decided to do a scrapbook for my amazing friend. I wanted to do something small and cute so I did a Paper Bag Scrapbook.

All you need is three paper bags. I folded one in half to see the halfway mark and I used my sewing machine  and sewed up the line. I made sure I doubled sewed the edges. For a three bag book you will end up having 12 pages and three open pockets from the top of the bags. I used some monster paper, solid cardstock, and  some fun baby boy paper I had on hand.

CD of all the pictures with a custom CD case out of the monster paper

It was so fun to scrapbook again since I haven't done it in a while. The whole book only took me an afternoon. I hope she likes it!

Monster Baby Shower- and a giveaway!!

First of all I want to say a quick and very heart felt Happy Birthday to my sweetie pie PB!! We're so blessed to have such a happy go lucky girl in our lives. We love you!! **Remember when I had her?

So my amazing friend M is due with a baby in just over a month. After having two girls we were all so excited when they announced that their third is going to be a BOY. Along with two of our other friends I threw her a surprise baby shower on Saturday. The theme was Mommy's Lil MONSTER !

Here are the pictures from the day: 

Surprised!!

Gift Table

Gift Card Holder (eater :) )

I'm bummed this picture didn't turn out better!! The sunlight was making it  really dark :( 

White chocolate covered marshmellows

Monster cupcakes

Peanut butter MnMs cookies, and steak salad, we also had delicious ham and swiss cheese baked sliders

The monsters invading our food table!

Photo booth props

We got together every Thursday for about 6 weeks planning this awesome party! I didn't get a picture of everything like the amazing raspberry lemonade we had as well.

Does this party look awesome? Want to throw one just like it? Well you're in luck because we're having a giveaway for the photo booth props!! In total there are 11 items including a message board.

Here’s  4 different ways to enter:

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Just so we're clear: each of these should be in its own SEPARATE comment! So if you like us on FB, follow us on Twitter, tweet about this giveaway and or are a follower of WGC, each of these should be it’s own separate entry. 


EDIT: Sorry I forgot to mention the giveaway ends on WEDNESDAY JUNE 13th at 11 AM!! 

Heaven Sent Baby Shower, Food and Activities

Last week you remember I showed you the decor for our Heaven Sent baby shower. This week I'm sharing the food and activities from the shower.

First, let's go with the food, since I love to take pictures of it.

These Oreo Truffles were a big hit. We used lollipop sticks (purchased at AC Moore) and ribbon to jazz them up. I wrapped a block of floral foam ($2 at WalMart) in wrapping paper and we topped it off with ribbon. Did I mention how DELICIOUS they are?

Angel food cake is a MUST at a Heaven Sent shower. I bought this pan for $11.99 from WalMart.com. It wasn't the easiest to work with, even for my mom who is an experience cake maker and decorator. We eventually used white cake for the smaller cakes and purchased a large angel food cake. My mom made a simple powered sugar glaze for the top and some left over strawberries from....

 These rainbow kabobs. We chopped the fruit the day before and then assembled the kabobs the day of. It was very easy. I think I'd try to find some shorter skewers next time. Inspiration here

We made these "Individual Crudites" as Martha Stewart calls them. Since she thought of 'em, we'll go with that. I called them baguette cups. We purchased baguettes and cut them on a diagonal. Next we hollowed them out half way and filled the bottom with hummus or ranch dip. Then we inserted chopped veggies. Everyone was talking about them.  

The whole food table. My best friend brought beautiful flatware for us to use and this punch bowl.

I think Brooke enjoyed the food ;)

Now for the activities!

As guests were arriving, we had them fill out this little card. It gave them something to do. Sometimes I feel awkward at the beginning of showers, so it was kind of an ice breaker. It comes in different colors, we used the gray/pink combination.

Next we had a little quiz about Brooke and her husband as babies. My mom and I came up with the questions and we thoughy the answers (at least for Brooke's questions) were SO EASY! We were wrong, no one got more than one answer for Brooke's section correct. It was fun to find out about Brooke and Mr. Brooke as kids. We had pictures to go along with our answers and then had them displayed for the guests to look at afterwards. The winners got Skittles and Snickers, the couples' favorite candies.

Finally we played a game I named "Exactly or Excrement" It was my take on a game my family loves, Fact or Crap. We had two teams. I read a statement and each team had to decide whether the statement was true (Exactly) or false (Excrement). I made cute little paddles with cardstock circles and popsicle sticks but forgot to get a close up of them. 

 Me (my best side) holding the paddles and explaining the game. The white side says "Exactly" in gold ink. The brown side says "Excrement" in brown ink. I'm mature.

Our team captains PROUDLY displaying their responses. We had a tie and had to have a lame tie breaker cause I was out of facts! The winners got yummy Hersey's nuggets and Smarties. The losers got Tootsie Rolls and Dum Dums.

The shower was lots of fun and I probably wouldn't change a thing (except having a tie breaker question). Thank you so much to my mom, who did SO much work. There was no way I could have done it without her. Also thank you to Brooke, my grandma, aunts and best friend for all the work they did. If you have ANY questions, I'd love to help!

Heaven Sent Baby Shower decor

Brooke's "Heaven Sent" baby shower was a complete success! My mom, best friend and I had so much fun working on this shower. We even put my grandma, aunts, and the guest of honor to work to create everything. Here are some photos of the decor:

The focal point of the room

Tissues pom-poms SO easy. I'd recommend making them the day of and with the ribbon in the wire. 

Proof we made the guest of honor work. This was taken two days before the shower. Brooke wanted to make these.  Super easy and can be used in the baby's room after the shower.

 The "Pomander ball" in action, it's in the smaller box. My mom made another one too. Speaking of my mom:

Here she is working on these Dinner Napkin Snowballs but we used small napkins. They were also easy. We made a bunch and put them everywhere.

 

I loved how the mantle turned out. We used wooden squares Brooke already had there but put in some shoes she's bought for her baby along with a few board books and baby accessories. (See above photos)

 We used Brooke's Cricut to cut out the circles, clouds and letters for the banner. We just winged the doily flowers and I loved how they turned out. (I know I keep saying that!)

 I got the wings from Oriental Trading Company, but was unimpressed since they were just cardboard cut-outs. My great mom glued feathers and added glitter to give them a little sparkle. We put them on Brooke's chair to make her look angelic.

Isn't she a cute pregnant lady? She is ALL baby!

My best friend took on the challenge to make a large monogram for the shower. I showed her several pictures of monograms with flowers. At the last minute I saw one made out of cupcake liners. It was perfect and Becky made it happen. 

Amazing, isn't it? Brooke can use it in the nursery too!

On the gift table we put some framed pictures of Brooke and her husband as babies. It was alluding to the game we would play later.

I could NOT decide where to put the cloud garland. At the last minute my mom helped me put it up in the doorway to the kitchen. 

Last week I said I'd post everything about the shower but I can't fit it all so next week I'll share the food and the games we played. Stay tuned!