Celebrate Celebrate Celebrate > A Mommy Shower

Recently my good friend had the most adorable baby and gave her an equally adorable name to match: Cora Jean. My friend is an amazing mama to two other little girls, crafter extraordinaire, and a country girl at heart. In a nutshell, she's just an awesome chick!

After she had her little cupcake, my friends and I wanted to do something fun just for her, since she had just made the cutest baby and she lets the rest of us fight over who gets to snuggle and love said baby. Seriously, is there anything better than holding a sleeping baby that smells like love and rainbows?! (Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a tiny bit with the rainbows and love thing; but in my crazy head that's what I think a squishy newborn baby smells like.)

Don't get me wrong, you all know how much we love a great baby shower around these parts; but sometimes it feels like a new baby gets all the attention and the poor, tired and sore, mama gets pushed aside like an ugly stepsister. I'm mean really, if you just created a tiny perfect human being, you deserve a little pampering. Or a cupcake, at the very least!

So we threw her a little party just for her, mainly to say thanks for having a sweet little baby that we can heap lots of love on and not have to feed, clothe, or pay for her college. And since our gal is a true country girl, (seriously, she has some great stories about plucking chickens and stuffing her family's pet goose for a high school science credit...) we decorated her party with a little farm chick flare:

All of the gifts were strictly pampering mom gifts, with the exception of some extra packs of diapers because really, not having to spend money on diapers is a gift in itself. She can use all that extra money on Starbucks and pedicures! Well, I would anyway...

We used lots of old funky mason jars and hung some fantastic Target dollar zone tea lights with some nubby twine. We also used small mason jars for our drink cups and then took some fun cupcake liners (from Target again) and used them as the lids:

Then of course was the food. No mommy shower is complete without yummy foods!

Thanks Mystie, for having the most beautiful baby girl so that my own ovaries didn't have to!

P.S. My husband thanks you too.

~Angela

Celebrate Celebrate Celebrate > Fabulous Rebel Housewife Bridal Shower

Our Rebel Housewives Bridal Shower turned out great, and we've finally recovered enough to share the goods with all of you!  

We stayed true to our "Rebel to a Housewife" theme from the shower invitation, and incorporated it into our decor. Angela's house was all decked out with vintage, retro, and graphic pop art touches. It was pretty and funky all at the same time, kinda like our cute bride to be!  


In fact, we had so many fabulous pictures from the Rebel Housewives Bridal Shower that I don't know where to start - so I'm going to start at the front door!  

We greeted our guests with this welcome sign.  We used a vintage dress form that came from my Mama.  I covered the form up with some kids t-shirts and then dressed it up and gave it some bling using some dollar store flowers, jewelry, a belt from Mr. 2Wicked and a adorable vintage apron that Miss Angela later gifted to the bride-to-be.

Check out the details.  The bodice was made using three different kinds of flowers:  daisies, small red button flowers for the daisy center, and hydrangea petals around the top of the bodice.  The top was crowned, literally, on top of a giant black daisy. (Who knew you could find black silk flowers?)  The vintage apron had red birds appliqued on it, the perfect apron for the Future Mrs. 2Wicked.

After the guests had arrived we put the crown and apron on our future bride for the shower festivities.  

We continued the vintage apron theme on the gift table.  We used three vintage aprons across the front of the gift table.  I'm partial to that poodle apron and am keeping it because it is tooooo cute.  I had one of the pictures from the shower invitation made into poster size and framed.

That's as far as I can take you today, but stay tuned for the tablescapes, favors, menu and games.  


~ Laurie

Celebrate Celebrate Celebrate > Back To School Carnival Party

Every year, the week before school starts in August, we throw a huge back to school/end of summer bash for all the sad little kiddos and excited mommies that we know. This year we decided to use a carnival theme, and we went a little crazy with it!

We had a whirlwind of a day of munching on hotdogs, snowcones, and popcorn; swimming, jumping, sliding, and then......puking. Not really, although looking at all the photos and the chaos of that day does make me a little dizzy.

Being the crazy people that we are, we went all out and pretty much handmade everything. The star and inspiration for the day was a 2000 sheet pack of red checkered food liners that I found at the restaurant supply outlet. These little sheets turned into adorable pinwheels, cute popcorn cones, and decorative accents we used everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE.

The other big moment of the day was the circus inspired carnival tent that we diy'ed out of two cheap canvas drop cloths from Lowes (details to come!). A little red paint, buckets of sweat (note - do not attempt this on a 100 degree day like we did...), one incident of heat stroke, and voila! Instant party tent!

Turned out pretty cute, huh? What do you think?

~Angela