Survival Tip #8: Help others to celebrate your friends.
I was just about to post a Christmas post when I noticed I never published this one!! It's a little old now, and since writing it Baby Colette was born! Congratulations to Dane and Christina!!
In November I decorated for a baby shower to celebrate friend from church, Christina. I've been given opportunities to help with decorations for a few events this summer and fall and I have discovered I really love it! It is so fun being creative and stretching myself to thinking up different ideas. Janet, the shower host, gave me free reign to do what I wanted to decorate which was so fun! From facebook I knew Christina and her husband Dane have a green, brown and pink nursery for their little girl so I used that as a launching point. I like to be inspired by phrases or songs when I decorate, so I used "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice" in coordination with the colors.
Inspired by a friend's decorations for a 1st birthday party, I bought a pad of scrapbook papers that were girly and matched the nursery colors and cut them into circles. I then embroidered them onto various green ribbon and wrote "C" for what is the baby-to-be's tentative first initial, or cut letters out.
The vases you see are filled with sugar, tea (loose leaf), and candy to mimic the rhyme, which was written on circles on the table. I also used Baby's Breath for the flowers, which seemed appropriate for a baby shower : ). I also purchased some receiving blankets that matched the nursery to put under the vases. In case you are in need of cheap vases, these are only $2.99 each at Target!! Super great deal!!
The shower was a lot of fun, and lots of women from our church came. It was so fun to be able to celebrate Christina as she gets ready to welcome her daughter into the world!
Christina with Mollee, and her mother in law Denise.
Em, Lou and Olivia
Christina with a sweet gift! Baby girls get the cutest things!
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