Surprise Baby Shower pour Moi

So the husband and I showed up at my mother-in-law's house for breakfast during the Christmas break, only to realize that there were a few extra people invited as well! 

Our family members had decided to throw us a surprise baby shower, and we were definitely surprised! 

Hard to share all of the fun through pictures, but here are some shots my niece took while I enjoyed the morning visiting :) 

They put a ton of work into preparing the food (including a yogurt buffet!) and the decorations. 

Everything was amazing! 

Exactly what I would've done if I threw a shower for myself :)

Games included guessing baby foods, writing stories, and making designer diapers for our friends to model. Safe to say everyone was thoroughly entertained! 

 We were absolutely spoiled with beautiful gifts!

 It was a great morning. 

I am overwhelmed and very thankful for the amazing women that organized it!

Husband and I are feeling very blessed :) 

{xoxo}

Baby Shower For Mark

Here is the lovely mom-to-be! With her mother-in-law and sister-in-law :)

Since she hadn't had the baby yet at this shower, I decided to plan a craft that would benefit them when the baby came - giving them lots of extra onsies!

It's a bit dark, but the banner says "It's a boy!". The mama already told everyone the sex and the name, so we all know he'll be named Mark as well :)

All of this amazing food was prepared by her mother and sister-in-law.

But I  made the cute decorative tags. And the delicious chocolate cheese ball below! Which was gone by the end of the shower!

If you check out my last post on How to Make Freezer Paper Onsies, here's how it turned out at the shower! I started by hanging the pre-stenciled onsies on a clothing line on the porch. Having them pre-stenciled was great because it was less time consuming, and it meant that people didn't have to try to be too creative. They just had to colour!

I lined up the paints and supplies nicely (with matching decorations of course!) so that everyone had easy access to them :)

Supplies included: fabric paints, foam brushes, water dishes, paper towel and additional fabric paints that pop out from the design (used for accents like eyes on fish).

The ladies chose their own onsie to paint, and then hung it back up to dry when they were done :) We left the stendils on some until they were done drying so the colours wouldn't run.

Here's a few of the finished product :)

Again, check out here for how I did the whole project :)

I don't have any pics of the games unfortunately :( I was too busy hosting! But they were really fun too! Including a bingo game and a fun, quick diaper game :) Maybe I'll share them after I host my next baby shower!

{xoxo}

How to Make Freezer Paper Onesies

I was getting ready to help host another baby shower and looking for a fun crafty activity

(cause that's what I do... ).

So I decided to paint onsies at the shower!

Here's how I made them, with the practice ones at home.

First I bought fabric paint, and lots of onsies in different sizes (0-3 mos, 3-6 mos, etc.).

In this case, we knew my friend was having a baby boy, so we picked boy coloured onsies, and coordinating paint colours.

We printed pictures off of the computer, and traced them onto Freezer Paper (found in your local grocery store!). Then I used my crafting knife to cut out the parts of the shape that I wanted to paint.

For this batman symbol, I cut out the yellow area so that I could paint that section.

Then I cut a peice of freezer paper to put behind it (in the middle of the onsie). That way the paint won't bleed through to the other side of the onsie. Then you iron on the freezer paper. Both the front stencil, and the piece in the middle will adhere nicely to the onsie.

I painted with foam brushes because they fill nicely and don't leave brush strokes. Once the paint dries, you can easily peel away the stencil, and you get a great outline of your picture!

Then I made mine more complicated by cutting out a stencil to cover up the yellow painted part, and allow me to paint the black sections. I did the exact same process (tracing, cutting, ironing, and painting).

And when you peel away the freezer paper - ta-da! Perfect super hero baby outfit!

And here's the sample one my husband made :) The shower is for his good friend's baby. A hobby of theirs is to go paintballing, so he decided to make a onsie that looked like it had been in a paintball fight, lol. It turned out amazing!

Stay tuned to see how it all worked at the baby shower!!

{xoxo}

How to Mod Podge Letters

This is a SUPER easy craft!! 

The letters below were part of a baby gift, spelling out the new baby boy's name :) 

Materials:

Everything I need is in this picture! Mod podge, paintbrush, letters (from Michael's), a pencil, scissors, and scrapbook paper. 

1. Choose which paper you want to use for each letter.

2. Trace the letter and cut out the paper

3. Paint mod podge onto the letter

4. Place the scrapbook paper over the glue, and glue overtop again. Make sure to distribute glue everywhere, and to get glue on all of the edges.

5. Let the letters dry (they dry VERY quickly).

6. DONE!You can embellish them anyway you like (as seen in this post with jewels and ribbons!)

Sorry, forgot to take a picture of the finished product - but here's a couple previous ones (the yellow one is painted and the other two are mod podged):

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How to Make Easy Decorative Flowers

^^  Aren't they cute?! ^^

Need an easy party decoration? I have one!

My grandma made a bunch of these for my engagement party once and I loved them!

I especially loved them because they were sooo easy to make, and you can make them in any colour that you can find plastic tablecloths in!

Here's all you need:

Plastic tablecloths in whichever colours you like

String

Wooden sticks for dsiplay

[Sidenote: ALL of this is available at the Dollarstore!]

Steps:

Cut out a strip of the tablecloth. Double up the cloth so you have two strips. If it's folded, cut the folded end.

You can use whatever width and length you like!

Fold the tablecloth like a fan, starting at one end and going all the way to the other end.

Tie the folded fan in the middle.

Spread out the fan.

Grab the edges and separate the two pieces of material that were folded together.

Repeat in as many colours as you like!

And here they are being used at a lovely baby shower!

(You can read more about the shower here!)

{xoxo}