So Sweet Baby Shower

My friend Sage is having a baby girl in May. I'm a lucky duck, because I also get to work with her everyday. We share the same little office at the school where we work, so seeing her belly grow and talking about Mom stuff with her has been so much fun. So, when it came to throwing her a work shower, I was very excited, because this is something that I LOVE to do. Throwing any kind of party is just plain FUN!

Our Inspiration was Cupcakes and Sweets and the colors Pink, Red and Aqua. My very good friend Jenny made these adorable "Cupcake" flower arrangements. I painted the terra-cotta pots (4", 6", 8") and Jenny mounded fluffy carnations to imitate "icing"! They look good enough to eat.

For starters, I went here to order this invition. I told Autumn what the theme and colors were, and she made the perfect invitation and matching stickers that I used on the favors.


When guests arrived, we had a table set up where each guest would fill out the envelope for the thank you card, and since the Mommy isn't a BIG fan of baby shower games, we had a diaper raffle that guests could participate in by bringing a package of diapers for the new baby. I also displayed the thank you gifts, which were Pink Lemonade Sugar Scrubs that I made at home from a few simple ingredients, like this one I made at Christmas time, and filled up inside fun jars from Cost Plus. This is also where the before mentioned stickers came in.

I stacked them up on cake plates just to keep with the Sweet Treat theme. (They happen to be pink glass too, wink wink)

We asked guests to put their gifts on the gift table. You will notice a little tree with money tied to it. Let me explain. We asked our co-workers to contribute to a pool of money that we could give Sage to order her stroller. We received very generous gifts and wanted to present this 'Money Tree' with a little card that had a picture of her stroller in it! Now Sage can go order her new stroller from everyone she works with!