A pink Babyshower

Who doesn’t love a good party? I don’t just love the party, I love preparing for one!

So, I had an opportunity to do two things I love….Bless someone and organise!

Last year I had the opportunity to bless a friend by assisting in throwing her a baby shower. And as much as I love boys, throwing a shower for a little girlie ticks lots of my boxes.

THE AIM: Keep it cost effective while keeping it visually pleasing and blessing a friend!

Before starting the process, I started making some lists of what areas I needed to cover. Oh man, I cannot explain what making list does to me, getting ready to sort out a potential mess……it’s a like a cool breeze on a hot day! So, with me in my happy place I went to making my list…..

THE List:

• Colour pallet/theme
• House décor
• Table décor
• Cake
• Food
• Drinks
• Party games
• How we are going to have the special mom open her presents

Colour Pallet – It is important to decide on what your theme is going to be and for that matter your colour pallet. I decided on a “vintage pink” which included dusted pink, white and muted browns.

House Décor – this was not too difficult as I went to my go-to decorations Bunting ( see Bunting vs Bunting ). I also included some large ‘paper balls’ hanging from the ceilings.

Table Décor – I wanted to use the Cake as my focus point with food surrounding it.

• I used my nice white tablecloths, which in truth doesn’t get pulled out that often with dirty little testosterone hands roaming my house.
• In order to make some table confetti I used paint sample strips and punches flowers and heart shapes out of them. OK, so you might we wondering how many of these sample strips I needed to get. A LOT….and yes, I am pretty sure that the guy working in the paint section must have thought I was TOTALLY crazy!!

Cake – I wanted a BIG cake as it would be the centre piece of my table décor.  BUT (wow, I do use that word a lot when trying to explain anything about ‘cake’) I was pretty sure that the ladies coming to shower would not be able to eat the whole cake. And so the best next option was the Nappy Cake (see Nappy Cake )

Food – These days food can become rather expensive, so I decided to make most of the food and asked some close friends to the preggie mommy to bring a plate of eats. The idea with eats for an afternoon shower was that it should be easy finger foods with probably more savoury than sweet. And not to forget some healthy options for all those on “healthy eating plans”.  A few examples tiropita (greek cheese triangles), baklava (greek nuts and syrup rolls), bougatsa (greek custard filled rolls) , brownies, scones, small tea sandwiches. Oh and I also put popcorn in pink dotty packages….just because it is pretty!

Drinks – Except for serving tea and coffee, I thought it to be wise to have a juice and water in separate dispensers. I used mason jars with pretty straws as glasses as well. Pretty, pretty straws

Party games – It is very important to make sure that your guest of honour is happy with party games! Some people love getting silly and some don’t. For this party we were going with the latter, so in order to have a little bit of fun, I set up two stations…..

• Station 1: Guess what is in the bag – Without looking you had to put your hand into the baby bag and guest the baby items. Each correct guess gives you a point.
• Station 2: How many pink marshmallows? – In a jar filled with pink and white marshmallows you needed to guess the amount of pink marshmallows

Once we were all seated, ready for opening the presents, we played one last game. I had a list of things that people would possibly have in their bag and as I read them out, each person could give themselves a point for the item that was in their bag. After all the fun the winners were announced and got a jar full of jelly beans.

How we are going to have the special mom open her presents – Our guest of honour isn’t fond of the spotlight, but we felt that she needed to open the presents in front of her guests. So in order to take the spotlight off her every guest would got one turn to guess what was in a present (and not the one that they had given).

After all the oo’s and aa’s, I hopefully made the guest of honour feel very special….as that was the whole point!

This made me realise again that I don’t want to just bless someone because there is an occasion. So as my King blesses us without any occasion, I will keep on allowing Him to let me bless people around me without occasion!

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