Lions and Tigers and Boys oh My!

2 sisters, both pregnant. both having boys and due only a few months apart!!! How could we not celebrate? Here are a few pics from Hillary and Amanda's Babyshower . I am so excited for both of them and can't wait to me their new additions!

The quote is from Wizard of Oz, except I replaced "bears" with "boys"

And there will be 2 more boys added to this adorable crew! I took head shots of each of the kids weeks before the shower so I could have Face-ka-Bobs for the Jeep I ordered HERE

For the 2 gift tables I made the name banners with my Cricut machine and glued the flags onto dried bamboo sticks 

I wanted mosquito netting hanging somewhere in the house and I found this net for the Watering hole at Ikea!

I taped the straws to the sparkling juice using Washi Tape

Lunch was served right out of the truck, and if you haven't tried the Chomp Chomp Truck, you need to! The theme was  based on tiger striped painted truck.

 I made these stands to use for fruit for the chocolate fountain... I found the plates and Bowl and target and glued them to two 4 inch candle sticks using E6000. SO easy and the worked great!

Amanda's Baby Shower

This weekend we got to celebrate the anticipated arrival of my dear friend Amanda's 1st baby baby boy. I am so excited to meet Easton and the lucky chap has 3 older sisters who already adore him! Here's a video of the special day and thanks to Debbie, Amanda's mom who took the pictures and put this video together.
And the baby shower was featured on
 Hostess with the Mostess PARTY OF FIVE section! Check it out here!

Baby Block Inviataions

I have been working on a Baby Shower for my friend Amanda for a few months now. I am so excited that this Saturday we will actually get to celebrate the arrival of her 1st baby boy! (She has 3 adorable daughters). I cant tell you why but once this idea for her baby shower invitations came into my head there was no stopping me,  no matter how many late nights in the garage it took!

I had 100 blocks cut at Ghanal Lumber, that part was simple... 

Then they all had to be sanded!!! 

Once they were all sanded I set up a table in my garage and took the gallon of Modge Podge I bought and got to work! One side at a time x's 6 sides and then repeated it all over again with the top coat over the paper.

The only side of the block I didn't post is the MAP to the location of the party,

 which is on the bottom of the block.

I wrapped them up in cellophane, tied it with tulle and TADA! 

And Luckily I had some help hand delivering these beauties all around Orange County!

 

I'll post pictures of the actual party next week :)