Ruth's Baby Shower Decorations

My sister-in-law Gladys asked me to do some decorations for her bestie's baby shower so of course I had to oblige. I've really been into the decorations mood lately and I love a challenge. My challenge if I choose to accept it was: Wilderness theme. I ACCEPT!

Glady sent me all the ideas she had and what she wanted. I was to make a small animals banner, a larger "IT'S A BOY!" banner, and the favor tags.

Here goes:

Exhibit A: The small woodlands banner. I basically printed out little aminals and created a tiny banner. I embellied with some glitter.

I can't remember the dimensions of the banner but I made it a bit longer just in case. I aim to please.

Close-up of the aminals. The monkey is just too cute!

Exhibit B: The bigger "It's A Boy!" banner. I added a few aminals here and there and Glady gave me a bag full of little sprigs and brances and pinecones which I used throughout. She really enjoyed the look. Again, glitter is your friend so I used lots of it. I really wish I had used a better camera but this was the best I could do.
 

 Exhibit C: The thank you tags. I think this was the most time-consuming. Do you know how hard it is to cut little itty bitty aminals???? Wow! I was so done after aminal #5!!! But, duty called and I had to serve! I really spruced this one up until I was happy 'cuz at first I was not happy with my work. After printing the words I added the wittle aminals but something was missing. So, I added glitter swirls!!!! Yeah!!!!!! Then I woved it! Again, I really wish I had gotten a better res image but I had no camera and my bro took the pic for me. I have a feeling he sent me a low res version cuz he has an iPhone.... hmmm....

Two Baby Showers and We're Finally Home!

So in February my mother-in-law Laura held a baby shower for me in Ecuador. It was sort of a farewell I guess since Henry's embassy appointment was later on that month and then we finally picked up his Visa on February 28th. We booked our flight back to the U.S. (a first for him!) a few days later and now we are back home, yay!!!!! We were really holding our breaths! He is a bonafide U.S. Resident now.

So here's a picture of my baby shower in Ecuador. The video in back is of a music video, in case anyone thought otherwise. That is my darling husband. He has the best smile ever! I love him so much!

And here we are back in the U.S. First thing we did? Shop for a crib for baby Henry!

I loved the white one in back, but it's so expensive!

On March 22nd, we held our U.S. baby shower with all my U.S. family.

This is the cake I had made from Luigi's Bakery.

And next to the cake are the souvenirs I made. Since the theme of the party was flying, I decided to make little suitcases as favors. I stayed up til about 5am the day of the shower to finish making these!

These are the invites I had made by Vistaprint. They are boarding tickets. This invite set up the whole theme for the party. We were coming home.

Here's a closeup of the suitcases. I made the little labels as well.

I was in a hurry so inside I only had time for some small sacks of candy.

Closeup of the labels.

The suitcases were all different types of designs. I found a template for them online. I searched everywhere. It was not easy I must admit.

Two Baby Shower Cards For My Cousin Jenny

Here are two cards I made last for my cousin Jenny. We celebrated her Baby Shower on Saturday for her soon-to-be-here son, Jeremy.My sister-in-law Gladys asked me to make her a baby shower card so I made the first one for her. The second one (brown) is from my family. I wanted to do something different for both so I choose the scalloped easel card for Glady and the tri-shutter for me. They were a lot of fun to make and my cousin and the guests were really in awe. Jenny passed the cards around the room and everyone had a smile on their faces as they looked at them. It was a very nice feeling :)

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