A Baby Boy Shower

Recently, some girlfriends and I hosted a shower to celebrate our sweet friend and her bundle of joy.  Lindsay is a beaming mommy-to-be, and such a dear friend.  It's an absolute pleasure to celebrate her!

We lined the path to the front doors with light blue balloons ... an idea that I found on -- well, you know exactly where.

We used the kitchen for our drink area.  We had white wine, champagne with rosemary simple syrup, herbed water, and some fizzy drinks for all of those with-child (we had four in attendance!).

While I don't normally recommend drinking wine through straws, this idea was just too cute to pass up!

The dining room held all of the food.  We had quite a spread!  We labeled all of the dishes using washi tape on folded cardstock.  I had baby blue pacifiers hanging from my chandelier (a Dollar Tree find, believe it or not) and lime green taper candles.  The invitation I used was navy, baby blue, and lime green, so I incorporated those colors as much as I could.

Dollar Tree is also my go-to source for the metallic plasticware that looks like real silverware.  I absolutely love this stuff.  Perfect for tailgating or for large-ish parties where you don't want to worry about lots of washing.  The mercury glass equestrian bucket was a Target clearance find -- $4.88.  Can't beat it.  I just filled the bottom with rice and that helped the "silverware" to stand up.

Instead of a traditional cake, I ordered cakepops in colors that coordinated with the invitation.  I wanted a fun way to display them, so to the craft stores I went.  I used a topiary form that I covered with sheet moss and then filled a galvanized metal beverage tub with floral foam and covered it with more moss. The pops stuck right into the foam very well.

On the taper candles - they were a bit wobbly in the candlesticks and I didn't want a tipsy candle to start a fire during a pretty baby shower (complete buzzkill).  I used sticky putty to hold the candles in place, and then I covered the white part that was showing with some rosemary from the yard.  I just wrapped a small sprig around some green floral wire and then wrapped it around base, twisting the ends together.  It looked pretty, and I didn't have to keep an eye on my candles!
 

We hired a bodyguard to stand watch over the gifts, and we paid him in milkbones and rawhides.

I wanted to have a fun wreath beside the chair where Lindsay would open gifts, so I made an easy yarn-wrapped wreath and accented it with some adorable baby booties that she can use for baby.

All of the hostesses with Linds -- we had so much fun working together on this baby shower.

The guests went home with little surcees that were near the front door ... washi tape -- right in time for holiday gift wrapping!

It was definitely a non-traditional favor, but I wanted a non-food favor and something that was unique and memorable.

Now, patiently awaiting the arrival of baby boy!  "Aunt April" can't wait to meet him and love on him.