Surprise Baby Shower

Here are some photos from the baby shower I threw with my mom for my brother and his girlfriend. I absolutely cannot wait to meet this little girl! Everything was a surprise for the guest of honor since this will make her third child she didn't want one but since my mom and I were not around for the first we wanted to do something special for her and my brother. I think everything turned out great and I got so many compliments on the cupcakes.

Gettin' Crafty With It.

Oh so very soon my brother's family will be welcoming a new baby girl into the world. Next weekend my mom and I will be throwing her a surprise baby shower and I decided that I wanted to make her a little something special. I have ventured in making onesies before with good and bad luck. I found some super cute ribbon a few weeks ago at Big Lots and decided that I would play around with making hair bows too. These are what I came up with. Everything was super easy. I used Velcro for the backs of the hair bows (hoping that baby has lots of hair!). The tie-dye ribbon I attached to the onesie with fabric glue and washed it after 24 hours to make sure the ribbon stayed on. The bows for both onesie's I hand sewed and also washed to make sure they stayed put! I had so much fun making the bows and even my husband commented on how nice the tie-dye one looked!

Baby Shower Cake

Today I went to a baby shower for my husbands cousin. My sister-in-law is a pretty awesome cake decorator and she made the cake. Actually, she made two, one was a "joke" cake. Both cakes were one's with the "baby belly" on them only one cake actually had a baby in it. She took a toy baby and put it in a balloon filled with water and covered it with fondant so that when they had the guest of honor cut into it her "water broke" and she "delivered" the baby. She thought it was pretty funny, my four year old little girl however, was scared to death! The look on her face was absolutly priceless when my husband's cousin took the baby out of the middle of the belly and squeezed the water out of it. Here are some pictures I got from my husband's aunt's myspace :)


Real Cake & Joke Cake



Cuting into the cake