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By Stephanie Keeping from Spaceships and Laser Beams 3 Comments
Are you hosting a baby shower? Decorations are favored elements because they build mood and party atmosphere. To start, choose a theme; you’ll be surprised with the decoration ideas you’ll imagine! Unless you’re hosting an extravagant shower, focus on a couple of areas to decorate. Here are a few tips to get you started decorating for a baby shower.
A wreath, balloons, flowers or something theme related at the front door will draw guests into the party before you even say “hello”.
Inside, establish the dessert table/food buffet as the main feature. Enhance party atmosphere with decorations on several levels; use the ceiling, tabletop and even floor level for displays. Garland and banners can be strung with great effect. Cardstock, tissue paper, ribbons, vintage handkerchiefs, comic book pages, fabric strips, and just about anything that can be hung in multiples will work to front/hang over the table and even extend into the room.
Coordinate colors for a cohesive look.
Use food as décor. For example, Hot Air Balloon is the theme, and popcorn’s on the menu: use guest-sized containers (decorative paper bags, cups or cones, etc.) and call it Popcorn Clouds; top cupcakes and desserts with paper medallions. Even water bottles dress for the party with a colorful straw and decorative sleeve over the manufacture’s label.
Use these few shower theme specifics to prime your imagination:
Decorations are a step outside of the everyday that create a moment-in-time atmosphere for celebration. Go ahead: build a party!
By Stephanie Keeping from Spaceships and Laser Beams 1 Comment
Is there anything as precious as a new baby? How do you put that into words? Whether you are signing a baby shower card, framing a quote, or just want to write a line to a friend, sometimes you need help in capturing the words. Here’s your inspiration — baby quotes and poems we love… that you will too!
{Originators are sited, unless they are unknown.}
You are the poem
I dreamed of writing,
the masterpiece
I longed to paint.
Sapra
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Don Herrold
It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.
Elinor Goulding Smith
Making the decision to have a child—it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
A baby is born with a need to be loved—and never outgrows it.
Frank A. Clark
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Mark Twain
If your baby is “beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time,”…you’re the grandma.
Theresa Bloomingdale
It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.
Terri Guillemets
Children are a handful sometimes, a heart full all the time.
A perfect example of minority rule is a baby in the house.
Milwaukee Journal
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman’s time. Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
Jerome K. Jerome
It is not a slight thing when those so fresh from God love us.
Charles Dickens
Babies are always more trouble than you thought—and more wonderful!
Charles Osgood
Child rearing myth #1: Labor ends when the baby is born.
Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.
Linda Becker
Mother’s Heart
I loved you from the very start,
You stole my breath, embraced my heart.
Our life together has just begun
You’re part of me my little one.
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg
Diaper backward spells “repaid”. Think about it.
Marshall McLuhan
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Ed Howe
A baby usually wakes up in the wee-wee hours of the morning.
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.
We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.
Judith Martin (aka Miss Manners)
Ten tiny fingers that always want to play
That never stop exploring the wonder of today
Ten tiny fingers that from the very start
Will reach out for tomorrow, yet always hold your heart.
Looking for a precious and super simple party favor for an upcoming baby shower? Wait until you see these!
All you will need is:
First, gather your supplies.
Prepare the royal icing and place it in an icing bag assembled with a tip that will allow the icing to flow easily but with control from the bag.
Use the royal icing to attach two lifesavers together making a ‘T’ as the picture below illistrates.
Next, use the royal icing to glue a gum drop to the top of the lifesaver ensemble as illustrated below.
Let the royal icing dry for a couple of hours to ensure the candy is secure and intact.
Then use ribbon, you can go as expensive or inexpensive as you want, to make a necklace strand that will allow your guests to wear these delicious party favors at the baby shower.
How simple was that? And they are so stinkin’ adorable!
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