This past weekend my BFF threw me a book-themed baby shower. Because she lives on the other side of Dallas from me and the majority of the invitees we decided to have the shower at my house, and it was PERFECT. People loved getting a sneak peek at the nursery, and when it was all said and done all we had to do was carry the gifts upstairs! But enough of that logic and on to the amazing shower!
WARNING: this post is going to be total picture overload… bear with me!
I think I'm going to add a letter to it and take it to the hospital to hang on our door when baby girl is born! It is so cute! I arrived at the house with my mom about 10 minutes before everyone else, so I got to wander around and check out the decor. It was a child's book themed party, so there were nod's to kid's books everywhere!
I get to keep most of the decor, so you'll see some of these things hung on baby girl's walls in the nursery very soon! The picture below on the left has book spines printed out, as well as copies of Mother Goose and some other kid's books lying around on tables.
The pennant bunting was a DIY project made from pictures from children's books, which was precious! The whole room was ready for guests, I loved the attention to detail everywhere and how much thought was put into the whole party!
For food we had lots of my favorites: fruit, cheese & crackers, Paradise Bakery cookies, animal crackers and funfetti dip, and Nothing Bundt Cakes. (if you aren't familiar with Nothing Bundt Cakes… you should become familiar… they are A-MAZING).
And because baby girl is going to need TONS of hairbands, we had a crafting station where everyone got to make a headband or two for baby girl. I've previously blogged about this idea for a shower and I still LOVE it! I first saw it at my friend Lauren's shower in Little Rock, and was so excited that this little treat made it into my shower! Baby girl has some pretty amazing headbands after this weekend!
She made two display towers to put them on when complete (and even had tags so I know who made them and for what age!). The display towers are just paper towel rolls wrapped in fabric and put on wide candle holders, but they were SUCH a cute way to display them!!
Can you tell I had both Jayhawks and Aggies at the party?? Baby girl is going to have good headbands for both football and basketball season!
The other crafting activity was to put your finger print on her tree so she can have a tree of all of the people who came to her shower!
Somehow we only snagged this iPhone photo of me and Amy, but I am so grateful for her friendship and guidance through this whole 'pregnancy' thing, since she has kids of her own and has been through the experience!
But I did manage to snag a pic with my mom who flew in for the weekend!
Baby girl is definitely feeling the love after the weekend shower and I am so blessed to have such great friends and family!!
I wish I could have been there, but it looks like you had a fabulous celebration! We love you so much!
Que lindo te ha quedado tu decoración,sencilla pero con mucha clase y estilo. Te falicito .Dios permita un buen parto y que pronto pueda ver la carita de tu bebe ,sano y hermoso. cuidate y que en estos momentos reine la calma…salud.!!!