What To Serve For A Baby Shower Brunch.

Brunch is the perfect menu for a baby shower as it keeps the menu simple and easy. Plus, don't you love throwing an earlier party to have the rest of your day to relax? We had the help of two other ladies that offered to make yogurt parfaits and a mimosa bar for the meal. The menu also included fresh fruit and mini muffins that were picked up from a grocery store on the morning of the party. 

Quiche is the perfect main course dish to add elegance to the table, especially when baked in a tart pan... there's just something about those fluted edges that look so beautiful. We were able to make the quiches ahead of time and serve them at room temperature for the actual event. This eliminated the need to time serving food and the arrival of guests perfectly. We served three different quiche options, using the base recipe of Entertaining With Beth. You can click on her foolproof quiche recipe {here}. Her site and YouTube channel is a wonderful source for meal planning! Guests were invited to try a crab and brie quiche, an asparagus quiche, and also Beth's tomato tart {here}.

We recycled glass yogurt jars for our yogurt parfait bar. They were the perfect vessel for holding each parfait and made assembly simple with their size. Yogurt on the bottom, followed by a layer of granola, and topped off with fresh blueberries and chopped strawberries made a pretty statement. The "momosa" bar was a festive touch where guests could choose from a variety of juices, top off with some champagne, and garnish their drink with fresh fruit. 

We served sugar cookies in place of cupcakes since cupcakes can sometimes get messy and we wanted a new spin on a dessert treat for our party. We were able to make the cookies well in advance of the actual shower date and freeze them in a container to keep them fresh until the party. This also alleviated extra stress that inevitably comes with throwing any kind of event. We hold fast to the mantra to make as much ahead as possible to be as prepared as possible. 

Dipped Sugar Cookies.

I have this friend that has taught me all I know about sugar cookies. (Shout out to Jenny!) And when I threw a baby shower this past weekend, I enlisted her help in showing me how to dip each cookie in white icing instead of piping the royal icing onto each cookie. This new technique was game-changing for the way we decorate cookies in the future. Dipping the cookies into royal icing speeds up the process considerably and is easier on your hands. 

The plain white background on each cookie provided the perfect backdrop to create whatever we wanted for the design of our baby shower. I added gold stars and then painted random gold stripes on half of the cookies. On the other half of the sugar cookies, I mimicked the invitation design in edible ink marker. 

Baby Shower Invitations For Twins.

We threw an intimate baby shower for our dear friend who was pregnant with not just one baby, but two! Oh, baby baby! Twins are on the way. For our shower invitations, we immediately went to Etsy in search of the perfect invite that would capture the essence of our event. We purchased these cute invitations from {My Confetti Printables}. We loved that not only the invite was part of the package, but also two card inserts to encourage guests to bring books and diapers to the shower. A thank you card in the same design was included as well for the mother to be to use to thank all of the guests who gave gifts. Sound like a big package? It didn't stop there. There was also printables for envelopes as well. Just wanted to give My Confetti Printables a huge shout out for providing such a beautiful package. Be sure to check out their other designs as well. 

Boy Baby Shower - The Little Details.

Styling an event is all in the layers of details. Some of them that would go unnoticed by many a guest. Like I mentioned in a previous post, the mom to be asked for a "meatballs and wienies" baby shower. So to push the envelope a little further, I also incorporated two of our blue antique Ball jars into the design scheme as well.

We used our fun blue chalkboard to write a cute baby saying on it. Since the saying made reference to buttons we added a glass apothecary jar of buttons to the table as well.

Boy Baby Shower - The Food.

A favorite aspect to any get together is, of course, the food. The mom to be asked for a meatballs and wienies party. She was having a boy, after all. We used our chafing dish to serve the meat from, as well as serving a variety of fresh vegetables and chips with dip.

 

The family picked up boxes of prepared petite quiches, petite fours, lady fingers, and cream puffs from Costco, which cut down on some of the preparation. The brother in law of the mom to be made two delicious cheesecakes, and they ordered a cake from Cakes By The Sea.

Boy Baby Shower.

I would have to say that my favorite part about styling an event is simply seeing it all come together. You've all heard the old adage said before, "necessity is the mother of invention". And it truly is. This was a fun baby shower to style. The color scheme was blue and green and the design concept left pretty much up to us. Several years ago, I had purchased the blue, green, and brown polka dot gift wrap paper from a school fundraiser with the idea it would look great for a party. You all know the type of fundraiser I'm referring to. You've all probably purchased your own share of frozen cookie dough buckets and gift wrap paper as well.

My original intention was to use the gift wrap as the backdrop to the food table. However, after using it for the past several years, I didn't quite have enough. And that turned out to be such a great thing! I wrapped just one section of the backdrop and added pinwheels to the other side. The leftover gift wrap was used to make drink tags and another pinwheel for our baby onesie clothes line.

Superhero Snack Time.

 
We put together this "Superhero Snack Time" birthday party for my son who was turning 5. We kept the color scheme grey and green.

I cut out a giant number 5 from an old television box, painted it, and added a green border. Green balloons even got individual superhero masks.

We wrapped boxes with silver wrapping paper and turned them into little buildings. A friend of mine, Jenny Wilburn of Jenny Wilburn Designs (no website at the present) designed our party printables. She created a superhero that resembled my son which we used as our cupcake toppers. I made a little wooden peg person and painted it to resemble the printable image.

We served served Superhero Tootsie Pops as one of the snack items, using another printable for the cape. The children that attended the party each received their own superhero cape as well.

 

We picked the perfect superhero park in North Myrtle Beach to host our party. The jungle gym playground equipment just called out "Superhero" to us!

Cute As A Button Birthday Party.

A friend and I sat down together over lunch one day and I gave her ideas for her son's first birthday party. She based the colors of the party off of a "first birthday" shirt she had picked up awhile back. Blue and Kelly green. Then she chose "Cute As A Button" for the theme.

She made the cutest picture frame by painting it blue and gluing buttons around the edges. Glass jars wrapped with button scrapbook paper held Oreo pops. The green and blue tubs that she borrowed from me also added visual pops of color to the table. My friend made the cutest button bunting for her son's high chair, and a cute button party hat for him to wear while he ate his cake. It was a great party table.

Cute As A Button Cake.

I was asked to make the first birthday cake for a friend's son. The theme was "Cute As A Button" with the party colors being green and blue. Twenty-three cupcakes and one smash cake later, and I love how they turned out! Happy First Birthday, Cole!

Dr. Seuss Baby Shower.

My first attempts at making a diaper cake were for a Dr. Seuss themed baby shower. I was throwing it with the mother-in-law and a friend. I painted large yellow signs to direct guests to the club house. The mother-in-law found the cute "One Fish, Two Fish" onesie online and we hung it up on the mantle along with plain white onesies.We used glass baby bottles to weight down balloon bouquets throughout the room.