Everything Crafty by Me!: Kristen's Baby Shower

My sister, Kristen, is having a sweet baby boy so I hosted her baby shower. When she told me her nursery theme was going to be Woodland I almost had a panic attack. Well, until I began researching the theme online. Surprisingly, the Woodland theme is extremely popular and to be honest, kind of cute! I had a great time planning this event.

I was most excited about the vegetable tree my mother made for the food table. My mother is extremely talented when it comes to carving vegetables. Hopefully, she won't kill me for posting this picture (that is her in the background.) The little felt creatures were hand-stitched by me. However, the pattern for the creatures was purchased from Aimee Ray at http://www.dreamfollow.com/.

Since my sister insisted on inviting around 100 people, we decided to skip the cheesy baby shower games and just go with Words of Advice for the new mother. I found the Words of Advice card templates from the PenguinPartyPress shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/PenguinPartyPress . The deer and hedgehog canisters were made from scrapbook paper and a pringles and pasta sauce can. Well, my cricut helped too!

The centerpieces for all the tables were made with an empty wine bottle and some yarn. They were extremely time consuming to make. It took me about an hour per bottle and there were 11 tables. You do the math! The wood cupcake holders were cut by 2 awesome men who will remain nameless. They asked to remain anonymous because they do not want to be asked to do this type of project again. There were 70 wooden circles so I can see their point.

My sister begged and begged to have seed packets as a party favor so I searched and searched for ideas. I finally found these cute little biodegradable containers from Oriental Trading and used those. I had a cute little poem printed on a customized card (customized by paperclever at http://www.etsy.com/shop/paperclever) and attached them to a favor bag using ribbon. I wanted a 2nd favor option so I chose candy-filled baby food jars. We filled the jars with Reese's Pieces because the colors matched our theme perfectly. My mother had the tedious job of washing all the adhesive off every jar (we made 50 jars) and attaching the ribbon. The sticker template was purchased from http://www.etsy.com/shop/paperclever.