Baby Shower!

I am so excited to share these! My friend Lisa helped me plan my baby shower earlier this month. I have a bunch of talented friends and so I pooled them all together and put them to work!

Event Planner: Lisa with Bellissima Vita
Photography: John and Jane Cosner with Cosner Photography
Invitation Design: Sara with Stinkerpants Designs
Flowers and Decor: Me - Huckleberry Karen Designs

A very special thank you to the Cosners for taking the time out of their busy weekend to take these gorgeous pictures. Get ready for some eye candy!!

Shower invites designed by Sara from Stinkerpants Designs.
Sara was also kind enough to give me these illustrations so I can make favor tags, shower games, signs and thank you notes !

Lisa surprised me with a "wish tree" where my friends and family
were able to send "wishes" to the baby. It was so much fun to read them!

My niece wrote this one - I love it!

And of course a very sweet note from soon to be Grandma Burling.

Dahlias and wheatgrass - a lovely combo!
I made diaper cakes for each of the tables. The best part is I have enough diapers
for the baby when he arrives!

Here's a picture of me and my sister Sherry. She helped with the yummy food!

And some pictures of the details...because the details is where the love is :)

The delicious cheesecake
Booties my friend made for the baby.

My friend Nicole made folders for the shower games. Talk about being super organized! She even added the cute little hippo and birdie from the invite :)

And of course there were MANY presents for baby. He's a very lucky baby
to have all of these people love him so much!

Favors for the guests: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Thanks everyone for such a special baby shower!

A Birthday Celebration!

I ended July with a birthday celebration for my Mother in Law - Trudy. It was a 60th Birthday Celebration so it had to be fabulous (since Trudy is pretty fabulous herself). I had Lisa from Bellissima Weddings help out since my pregnant belly slows me down these days!

The food that we ordered was some barbecue from Armadillo Willy's so wanted to do a nice version of a outdoor picnic. The colors we used were chartreuse, yellow and white.

First I made the invites. I designed the invite on my computer and
bought supplies from Paper Source.

We had the party in their backyard so we rented some tables, chairs and
linens from Classic Party Rentals.

For the centerpiece I made a small floral arrangement, filled a vase with
some limes and made a small pomander with daisies.

I loved these little pomanders!

It was a small affair (30 guests) so we treated each linen napkin
with an orchid and berries.

We decorated the fence and trees with some paper lanterns.

The tall branch arrangement I made for the appetizer table.
Do you see the red cooler in the background?
That was instantly removed once I saw it in the picture. :)

As a surprise for Trudy we hired a Caricaturist to draw some pictures of the guests.
Here is grandma and Grandpa with their picture!

Here's the picture drawn for Ben and me.

Hope you enjoyed your birthday Trudy!

Nicole's Baby Shower

My very good friend (a.k.a. as crafty friend) is getting ready to have a baby girl and we celebrated with a fantastic shower. Although it wasn't planned - the theme seemed to be "cupcake" because somehow they showed up everywhere, baby clothes, t-shirts, cards, wrapping paper and of course - the dessert. She wanted some spring time flowers in pinks and greens. It was so much fun watching her open the fun gifts. Congrats Nicole!

Sibby's Cupcakes! They were almost too cute to eat. But I ate two of them.

Nicole and the cupcake onsie I gave her!

The thank you card that Nicole "gocco'd". Super cute!

Bridal Showcase - Birch Table

Lisa from Bellissima Vita Weddings and I have been planning a Bridal Showcase the last couple of months featuring some of our favorite vendors. It all came together last weekend and I'm excited to show you all of the lovely details! We created four different tablescapes and I'll post pictures of each as I gather pictures.

First up - Birch Tablescape (nicknamed the Ewok Adventure Table by my husband)

Stationery designed by Suzanne from Cards de Luxe and photos provided by the very talented Ed Pingol.