We celebrated the upcoming birth of my first niece yesterday and I was thrilled to help host the shower along with my mom (and lots of help from the aunts and my sister).
I basically spent the whole day Friday baking cookies to use for the favors. I've never made so many cookies at one time in my life. I used the sugar cookie recipe from Mrs. Fields -- it's no fail.
Then I decorated each one by hand. And it took a ridiculous amount of time.
Once they dried, they were placed in these cute little bags my mom found at a local knick-knack shop.
In addition to the cookies, guests could also take home a cake pop as a favor. I found a bunch of cute vintage greeting card designs that I framed and placed throughout.
I absolutely loved the cupcakes and so did my brother and sister-in-law.
They actually found and sent me the image to use, which made my job super easy. All I did was print sheets of the adorable little vintage baby (with bunny slippers and ruffled bootie) onto white linen card stock. Then I punched out the image using a 1 11/16" hole punch and the scalloped hole punch in pink linen card stock. The cupcakes themselves are red velvet (from a box, I'm not superwoman or anything) with cream cheese frosting. We topped them with the same pink pearl sprinkles we used for the cookies and wrapped them with the edges of... paper doilies using this tutorial. (I love when I actually carry out the tutorials I pin!)
Some of the clothes strung on the clothesline were actually worn by the mom-to-be as a baby.
More details coming later once I track down another photographer's photos as I was so busy putting together the shower's finishing touches that my photo coverage is seriously lacking.
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