Shower Decor

As posted before I mainly used balloons for the shower decor but here are a few other details...

main food table decor and a few game prizes wrapped in fabric and ribbon. 

I just really loved these giant buttons, found at Michael's. 

The KC is for the guest of honor (from Michael's).The cute part is that not only does her name start with a K, her husband's name starts with a K, and all of her husband's sibling's names start with K's as well (5 KC's in total). I think what we are all wondering is if the soon to be parents are gonna carry on the tradition to their newborn. We'll see!

Cute banner by Jessica Marcotte. 

Sugar High

Here's the dessert table from the Baby Shower. First, thanks so much to Bakerella for the inspiration and recipe for the cake pops! 

The rice krispie buttons were also supposed to be on sticks but that didn't work out so well. Too heavy I think. 

I acquired a large amount of sherry glasses for the mini milk shakes, we ended up not serving them because everyone was too sugar'd out. But they still looked cute and the few of us setting up for the shower enjoyed them! They were adorned with a mini oreo and a mini straw. 

(photos by fellow milk shake drinker Jess Epstein)

Big Round Balloons

Would you believe me if I said that I was was still recovering from a baby shower four days ago!?! It was great but today was the first day I didn't wake up exhausted. So silly.

Every event, every wedding, every shower, I learn something (s) new. 

Here's a photo from the shower. I used the ever popular 3' balloons. Here's the deal on these. In my findings...at least in San Francisco, the price quotes were for $30 a balloon, they take a lot of helium. Yikes. Pricing it further, the balloons without helium cost $5 a pop everywhere I looked. I decided to rent a helium tank. 55cf (cubic feet) helium tanks fill about three-four 3' balloons. And that tank was $30. An 88cf fills about six 3' balloons and was about $50. I got the tank and balloons from SF Party. 

I thought that these beautiful balloons would be enough decoration so I would need little else to create a good impact and ambiance. I went with the 88cf tank, got five, 3' balloons and about 10 smaller ones for other areas of the party space. It came out to about $80 which is pricey for decor I know but I figured it was worth it! Everyone loved them and they looked great in the space. 

As an additional note. You really need two people to blow these up. Tying them after they are blown up will tear up your fingers ( good to switch off) and they will escape if you don't have someone else there holding them. I also used thick yarn as the string just to do something different. 

I am excited to share more details about this shower in the next few days. Including a DIY for the favors! 

(photo by my partner in crime and balloon holder Jess Epstein) 

Baby Shower Invitation Design

I have a wonderful and amazingly talented friend Jessica. We took art together in high school and I used to enviously stare at her beautiful creations. She drew these invites (yes, even the lettering) for a baby shower that she and I are co-hosting for our friend Krista. 

Aren't they amazing?! I have a lot to live up to on my event styling of this baby shower! 

When Jessica isn't chasing after her toddler (the studly Theo) she is doing custom invite design. Visit her blog for her email. Tell her I sent you and she'll give you a crazy good deal. ;)