Paper Bag Book

 This is one of my favorite things to do for showers, it works well as a guest book/best wishes book.  They are just so simple and cute.

Others I've done  1, 2, 3.

Baby shower game

 I put together a game for my friend's baby shower.  It's one of my favorites, a candy bar matching game. I used a big piece of cardboard and paper.  I printed pictures of the candy bars and the matching words. Then put pieces of scrapbook paper with numbers on top of them. I was sick for the shower so I didn't actually get to see it played. I hope it worked. ;)

Baby Shower Candy Bar Matching Game

Match candy bar names with pregnancy and baby words and phrases.  For example, "whoppers" would match "10 pound babies"  If you make a match you get the candy bar.

Matches

now and later- contractions

milk duds - dirty diapers

good and plenty - precious moments

hot tamales- heartburn

jelly belly-  postpartum tummy

milky way- breastfeeding

lifesavers- epidurals

fast break- mommy's sleep time

baby ruth- baby girl name

sweettarts- nurses

snickers- baby giggles

whatchamacallit- naming baby

3 musketeers- triplets

rolo- baby rolls over

nerds- hospital accountants

twizzlers- umbilical cord

mr. goodbar- anesthesiologist

5th avenue- hospital address

mounds- breast engorgement

look- baby's eyes

big hunk- daddy

rocky road- drive to the hospital

runts- premie

100 grand- hospital bill

Baby Shower

My mom, my sister and I recently threw a shower for my other sister.  It was so much fun!  I made a paper bag book for the guest book and I put together a motorcycle diaper cake.  We had brunch and decorated bibs and visited and had a great time.   I can't wait to see her little bundle of joy.  

There is a tutorial for the motorcycle diaper cake at sweetaprils.com.

Paper Bag Scrapbook (Girl Style)

I made this to pass around at a baby shower that I co-hosted last week. I really love doing these. They are so cute and quick. To see one that I made a while back click here.

Baby Girl Shower

I co-hosted a baby shower today. But I am totally kicking myself because I didn't take any pictures of the actual shower! I didn't even think about my camera during it. Anyway, we had a great time and everything turned out wonderfully.

I have pictures of a few of the things that I did for it (banner, invitations, etc) because I took these before the shower. I made a few flower arrangements too. But the food was amazing (my friend and co-host was the mastermind for that). We had souffle, muffins, fruit, and juice. Yum! We played a couple of games and she opened presents. We got to "oooo" and "awww" over the cute baby girl things.

Paper Bag Scrapbook

I made this scrapbook for friends to write their congratulations, advice, etc for a friend that is having another baby. We passed it around at her baby shower I helped host this past weekend.

This was a really fun project I will have to do another one sometime.

Baby Shower

This is the mother-of-honor and her mom and '2nd' mom.

My friend MaryAnn and I hosted a baby shower today for our friend Kimberly, who is expecting her second baby. It was a lot of fun to put together.

The food

We did a teddy bear theme so we had chocolate covered cinnamon bears, cinnamon bears,
chocolate covered gummy bears, gummy bears, teddy grahams, straw'bearies', and some other candies and fruit and dip. I made that banner.

We had this at the door so they knew which room we were in. It had the papers for our first couple of games (one of the games was guessing the candies in the jars). I also arranged those flowers (they were left over from my sister-in-laws wedding last week shhh don't tell).

We decorated with teddy bears all over the place.

These were the invitations - but I smudged out personal information.

One of the games was thinking of famous bears.

One game was guessing how many candies there were in a bottle, sippy cup and baby food jar.

We coordinated all the papers to be teddy bears and blue and brown.

MaryAnn did this game about child 'bearing' stories. It was a lot of fun.

Hooded Baby Towel

I don't know how people get a dripping wet, cold baby into those baby bath robes. I much prefer hooded towels because you can QUICKLY get the little dear dry and warm. So, I needed a couple for our little one. The picture isn't the greatest because I don't have the baby to model it yet. :)

It was really easy, I just cut a towel in half and a washcloth in half, hemmed it, added a little ribbon - voila!