Oh Boy!

Consider yourself warned.

You are now entering baby shower land and the longest post EVER!!! :)

What happens when a floral designer gets baby blues and one of her best friends gets pregnant and she decides to throw her a babyshower?
Said floral designer lives vicariously through her preggo friend and gets a tad bit carried away.....

Once upon a time there was a girl who met a boy.
They fell in love and went for loooong drives dreaming about where they would go and travel on adventures.
One day the stork came by for a visit{wink, wink}
Then the boy and the girl marveled at how lucky they were to have a baby boy on the way.
Then girl messed up by having her OCD friend plan a babyshower.
She had lots and lots of flowers and everyone at her shower wanted to rush home and get pregnant just so they too could have a shower!!!!! lol

I kept telling the girls(Jess, Char, Heidi, Saira and I threw the gig of the year. ....at least in our minds) that we were going to throw the biggest bestest babyshower in the world and everyone would be so jealous at our babyshower that they would want to get pregnant just so we could throw them parties and that we should start a baby shower company!
hehe, I can dream right? :P

So I have a ton of pictures.

I give you Monica's Baby shower!

{Baby Boys}

When the guests arrived we had a diaper name tag ready for them to pin on./ That way people who didn't know each other would at least know the persons first name. What they didn't know was that one of them was a "dirty" diaper and that on the inside was a sticker that would later determine the winner of our diaper game.

The we had them fill out a wish for the baby and then hang them on the Manzanita tree we had displayed.

I love brooches so I pinned one onto the ribbon around the vase of the Manzanita Tree. I got the cute Monkey at Michaels Store that we would later glue onto the letters we painted.

But in the meantime, we used them on the wish tree and on the diaper cakes.


This is a bassinet I found at Goodwill. What a steal at $2, the only thing I did was take design master spray paint in brown and then in copper to jazz it up a bit. It was filled it with a liner, then foam, then a pave of mums and carnations.


Next were the favors that I blogged about a few months ago.
The cutest favors that I got at Target of all places in the dollar section.
The pink bud vase said "DREAM", the blue one said "HOPE", the green one"LIVE LAUGH LOVE". I put flowers in the bud vases: Green kermit mums, pale yellow mini carnations, yellow roses, white and blue star of Bethlehem, white buttons mums, and a pink flower that I cannot for the life of me remember the name? When the guests took away the favors they could put a flower in them think of little Pauly when they used it.


Next we decorated the dessert bar with paper lanterns in yellow ans green hanging from a beam and we hung up baby clothes form a clothes line. Well I forgot the clothes line so I used ribbon.

Instead of a cake, we served brownie bites, lemon bites, sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, flan, keylime pie, mini cupcakes and laceys. OH! and coffee of course :)

Jessica made these super cute chocolate lollipops. Aren't they ADORABLE?

She also made these cute diaper cakes to put on display on our dessert table.
Too cute.

I made all the gals that planned the party corsages and then made a special one out of scabiosa pods, lily grass, and yellow orchids for the
mommy-to-be.

I made different flower centerpiece for the baby shower so that we could have variety and that we could give them away as gifts.
I made this little guy so it could sit in this white chair I found at a thrift shop.
I used geranium, scabiosa pods, white roses, lime,blue and lavender hydrangea, and some light blue delphinium, lily grass. bluperum, and a green filler that I don't know the name of.
Help? anyone??? They look like jacks to me and they are super tall....hmmmm.

These centerpiece were used on the round tables, and they were floral wreaths composed of blue. lime, and lavender hydrangea, white, yellow, and greens button mums,salal, some delphinium, and white roses. I placed a fish bowl with some water and floating rubber duck.

People loved these!

This little rocking horse was the belle of the ball. Again, shop at your local thrift stores, they have some great recycled stuff for pennies. I found this guy at a Salvation Army for $2.99 and I dropped a liner and filled it with flowers. Same as above except I added Kale to this one.

This one sat at the beverage station. We served, water, fresh melon juice, Sangria, and Champagne and sherbet punch.

The peonies in this one were outrageous! They were blooming and opening up the biggest fluffiest white during the party, they were unreal!!! I also used yellow callas in the arrangement as well as white hydrangeas.

There were two of these that I made onsite with the extra flowers to give away.
I figured someone would take them home...
The decorations for a boy baby shower were kind of easy for us since she didn't have a real theme like winnie the pooh or sesame street or anything like that. She just wanted to decorate the nursery with browns blues and some green so the rest for us was easy!

This blue and white centerpiece was blue hydrangeas with cream peonies and scabiosa pods along with the green seasonal filler that I absolutely loved.

One of the guests that one our guessing game contest went home with the jar of jelly bellies and an arrangement of her choice. She posed for a picture and I think she looks like a bride with her bouquet don't you? I think this would be good for a bride with a blue, green and cream theme.

Here is the Mommy to be, she's got her pregnancy glow on and she is posing with that bonnet of ribbon and bows that someone made for her from her gifts. She looked so cute someone said" Wait!!! Give her flowers so she can complete the look!"
Not quite sure what "look" meant, but she sure did look cute didn't she?

SO all in all, the babywhoer wa a great success. Everyone loved the babyshower decorations, the food, and the drinks. They thought the babyshoewer was unique with its modern twist on details. Monica was glowing and us girls were happily sipping on sangria all day. It was nice to get together and be able to design for my friend! She's going to be a great mommy and I can't wait to meet the little one. :)