Baby Shower for a Baby Boy!

Yes, another shower!
Told ya. Last week everyone rushed out to get pregnant.

Haha, just kidding, C &A have been planning this shower for a minute now. It was actually bigger than some weddings I have had this year!!!!! Can you believe it? 200+ people at a shower!

Holy Moly. My wedding wasn't that big...well almost, but still. They have a lot of family and friends and a lot of love going on. :)

{Baby Boys}

I had the task of dying some of the most beautiful white Akito Roses I have had to a baby blue color. These roses were so white I couldn't figure out what setting to put my camera on so it could capture the detail!
Locally grown geranium smells SO GOOD to me.....

The flowers were dyed so that they could be dropped into varying heights glass cylinder vases, submerged in water and placed in the table as centerpiece. We set out forty of these glass vases.


I made the mothers a corsage to wear for the day. The first corsage is more modern,I decorated with some aqua bouillon and some baby blue decorative wire. The corsage is made out of lime dendrobiums, some white spray roses, and a little bit of wax flower.

That wax flower kills me when the little buds are pearlescent like that.
They are perfectly white buds that add great detail to corsages I think. :)

This is a more traditional corsage for the mother of the...mother...to..be..wait. The grandmother! lol, omg. I was kind at a blank there. I am so used to saying Mother of the Bride! :)

Anyhow! This corsage is blue and white with a touch of lime. I used an Akito Rose, some kermit mums, white spray roses and some white wax flower.

We places a small check-in arrangement at the sign in table.
This little guys has baby blue hydrangea, white Akito roses, white spray roses, myrtle, fern, geranium, lemon Leaf, lime dendrobium, and some wax flower.

The parents to be were so cute! They put a picture of the baby's sonogram up for everyone to see. If you look closely you can see the baby is sucking his thumb. I told her that my son, did that in his sonogram picture too, and that he unfortunately, uses a pacifier and is addicted to that thing. :(

One of her girlfriends made a diaper cake. Isn't it cute? Perfect for a Baby Boy.

I let her use my candy bar containers and scoops for her shower.
You cannot go wrong with a candy bar! I tell ya, guests *love* it.
It also makes for awesome pictures.

This are the labels she made.
For all you DIY-ers her how to make the labels for a candy bar bag.
Super easy.
All it takes is plastics bags that you can get at a party store or a dollar store.
You can but the labels at an Office supply store or if you have access to a Paper Source you can get super cute colors there.
GO to this link that Paper Source offers and download a free template.
Print form home in a few minutes and Voila!
Super Cute labels to attach to anything.

Girls after my own heart. Her girlfriends made cupcakes. Super Cute Cupcakes!

After all, what's a baby shower without cupcakes?

The buffet was being placed as I was heading out. I wish I could have stayed!

They are too cute with their matching outfits.
LOVE them!
That baby is going to be the cutest thing ever and it's going to be so loved once he gets here in August. Thanks for letting me be a part guys. Wish I could have stayed and enjoyed the lumpias but the boy was ill and duty called. You will soon enter the Parent Zone :P

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. :)

Bud Vases as Favors

Big ups to Target.
They have provided for me a perfect favor for a baby shower. My girl friend is having a baby boy
(I told her she was going to have a boy! *deep vow* thanks.) and we are throwing a baby shower for her. I have been thinking long and hard about a cool favor.
So imagine my delight when I walked into Target and found these perfect little bud vases with "hope", "dream", and "live, laugh. love" on them!
For a dollar?!?!?!?!?!
Are you serious?
So I naturally bought all 40 that they had left.

Aren't they great? I hope to buy different types of flowers and place one or two stems in each, with a pretty monogram ribbon or embossed tag around the neck of the vase
(does that makes sense?)
Here is another picture by the windows in all their glory with red tulips and camelias in them.

I would like to have them all arragned on a little table so guests can pick one up on thier way out and maybe keep it at thier desk or on a windowsill and think of Moni's baby boy every time they put a garden flower in it!

TROPICAL BABY SHOWER!

Today I delivered one of my most enjoyable creations for a Baby Shower! The theme of the shower covered a contemporary orange, yellow and lime affair which had me smitten because I love not only those colors but I loved that it was tropical. Wish you could have see the table display as everything was so playfully exotic. This baby girl will be coming into this world with a whole lot of style!