Little Elephant Baby Shower

This past weekend was my niece's baby shower! I cannot believe that she is having a baby! I cannot wait to meet her little girl! This was officially my first "big" event, as I was making the favors, cookies, and cake pops for the dessert table. 

My niece decided on a silver gray and baby pink color theme and I must stay it all came together beautifully! The centerpieces were galvanized buckets of baby's breath (compliments to my sister in law!) placed in the center of round tables covered with a baby pink table cloth. Little hand made elephant confetti was sprinkled around the centerpiece and it was perfect.

I thought it might be cute to have guests sign in when they came to add to a scrapbook or photo book and when scrolling over the internet, I came across a similar idea to this, but used another free elephant graphic instead. I bought a balloon hole punch and glued the balloons all over the paper. It came out so cute!!!

Then I thought, wouldn't it be nice to have guests write little notes to the baby and her Mumma and Daddy? Michael's was having a sale on the Valentine's Day supplies so I bought a pink Valentine box and decorated it then made a cute card and placed it on the gift table. I made a little Gift and Card sign as well.

Gift and Present labels

The favors were little elephant sugar cookies and I used royal icing and pink glitter dust to make the cheeks. A black edible marker was used to make the eyes of the elephants on the cookies and cake pops. 

I made additional cookies for the dessert table using marshmallow fondant and heart sprinkles. The cookies were sugar cookies with royal icing and sprinkles as well. Everything came together great!!

Dessert tag labels

Dessert Ingredients- for allergy awareness

The cake pops were a hit. I used vanilla cake with buttercream frosting and they came out fabulous!!! They were the cutest baby elephant cake pops ever!!! Click on the link to find out how I did it! I modified the original design by using royal icing for the ears rather than the chocolate wafers, but they still came out cute!!!  Here are some photos from the dessert table and the event!! What a great day. The cakes were not my creation but the woman who did them is amazing!!! Check out her work too!

A marshmallow fondant elephant that I made to go with the theme :)

I made this to go with the decor but also for the baby's room using ribbon, a gift box, stick on bows, and a paper lantern.

This was such a great time and everyone had a blast. This was by far my favorite party to do and although the cake pops were time consuming, it was well worth the effort!!! Enjoy!!!!

Congrats to Steph and Joe!!!

Welcome Charlotte!

Winter Party 2015

Polar Express Party!

This winter I decided to throw Kayleigh and her friends a “Polar Express” party to celebrate winter and the Christmas holiday.  I figured that the kids could watch the movie and drink hot chocolate. Of course Pinterest was not short on ideas for sure!

I decided to use red plates and red plaid napkins that I had left over from our North Pole party a few years back. I used red velvet scrapbook paper as placemats for the tables and created a postcard type invitation like this.

I purchased gold vellum from Michael’s and printed the gold tickets to put inside the invitations. The printable I found for free here. I also found little tags to put on the bells here.

I decided on a white, red, and light blue color scheme and invited the kids to bring sleeping bags and wear their pajamas. We turned the downstairs into the “North Pole Movie Theater” and they watched the movie while the adults had the upstairs to chat and mingle. Here is a printable for you!

I used white Christmas lights behind the bar and set up the goodies for the kids there including pizza. For the most part, the popcorn stayed in the boxes! They were the cutest red and white striped boxes that I got from Christmas Tree Shops for only $1.69! I grabbed four and used them to serve the popcorn.

We had powdered donuts, salted caramel and pumpkin spice cookies, popcorn, hot chocolate, cheese and crackers, a veggie platter that I arranged to look like a Christmas tree, sugar cookies that I decorated, home made Chex mix, egg nog dip, and pizza!  I also made delicious Peppermint Whip. It is the easiest thing ever. Pulverize candy canes into a powder and stir into your favorite whipped topping. Serve with cookies, pretzels or Pirouline wafter cookies and Voila! It is awesome in hot cocoa as well! The grown-ups also enjoyed white chocolate hot cocoa. You can find the recipe here. It is so delicious and easy to make in the crock pot!

One of the cutest cupcakes of all time came from Bakerella. Her post here is what I used to create these cuties! Check them out!

Seriously, how cute is this guy's little tongue?!

I bought red paper containers to put the favors in. Of course the night would not be complete without bells from Santa! I made little packets of Magic Reindeer Food and placed them inside as well. You can find printables of them here.

The kids had a blast!!! Enjoy some more pictures of our party!

Merry Christmas!!

Ariane