Baby Shower Day!

Danika's

Baby Shower has come and gone....

Let me just say I had a wonderful time planning and hosting this shower for my Daughter in Law. She is a lovely person and I really enjoyed trying to make her shower as special as she is to us. All the pictures below will enlarge when clicked on.

I had her invitations customized and printed at tiny*prints. They even addressed and mailed them for me.

The link above will give you a full size view of her invitations. (without all the addresses and phone numbers)

Danika's Mother brought this table cloth she had made for them with her from Florida.

She had the little poem embroidered in the center.

Table cloth before the pens got to it! :)

Catherine brought the cake from the Cakery...

I kept this small so as not to have a watermelon taking up half the table.

The cucumber sandwiches were made with  cream cheese and dill as opposed to butter.

It was 90 degrees here today, so these were especially refreshing!

Asparagus wrapped with homemade Boursin Cheese and  Prosciutto.

Ready to eat!

This was taken before the final table arrangement. Just throwing this one is because I failed to take a picture of the little decorations hanging from the chandelier. I stumbled across this adorable idea at Traci's Blog over at Beneath My Heart.

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I know we did! Heck, we were just happy that it wasn't raining and the sun was finally out!

Baby Shower Favors

My sons wife, came over yesterday to help me assemble the party favors. With the boys now occupied with one another we went to work. I purchased these sweet little favor tins and personalized labels at "flavorstudio.com".

E, was a great help with these. I originally had intended to tie the ribbon around the tins, tying a bow...which would have taken days on end as the tins are slippery. She was so clever to come up with the cute idea to place the labels lower (rather than centered) and to attach the bows with hot glue just above the labels.

I think they turned out perfect!

I then went ahead and wrapped up the towels I had made earlier in the day as attendance gifts. My plan is to get a bit done everyday this week so I'm not overwhelmed come Saturday/Sunday. I would like to reserve Saturday for food preparation and cleaning (lots of cleaning). Thanks again for all the help E! You are "oh so" clever! :)