World Traveller Baby Shower!!

Hello Friends!

My wonderful daughter Jackie and wonderful son-in-law Sean
are expecting a new arrival any day now,
and a shower in their honor was held Jan. 25.

Being world travelers themselves,
and as that is the theme of the nursery,
they wanted a world traveler/airplaine theme for the shower.
I had so much fun making these decorations for them!

This wreath created from vintage maps, paper yoyos
and a chipboard wreath form I got for a song
at Michaels' after Christmas sale:



This collection of giant rosettes is about 4 ft. x 2 ft.
A festive photo op. :)

 

An OH BABY banner created from vintage maps.

The letters are on circles which are on pleated rosettes 

which are on flattened cupcake liners

 that I ran through the Vagabond and cut with a scalloped die.

 The dessert table:

 We found little airplane cookies on Etsy,

 and little globe chocolates on Amazon.
A friend of my daughter's made the "globe" cupcakes
and chocolate Eiffel tower pops!

This is a group photo of everyone...

Does it look like a nice sunny day in Southern California?

It was in the 80s!  Jan. 25th!

You can see my pom pom garland in the background.

I had a rope and attached the pompoms with ribbons,

as well as some paper lanterns and paper fans and honeycomb orbs.

Also hung some ribbon streamers.  

This was actually more work than I had thought it would be,

and that rope got really heavy once we hung all the stuff on it.

I had wanted to wrap map garlands around it 

as well and attach some map circle streamers,

but it got late and we were tired, and just called it good!

Me and my two darling daughters:

My adorable younger daughter Alison came from NYC

to take part and share the joy.

For favors we gave these little plantable seed bombs

that look like little globes.

Well, if you squint your eyes...;)

They are made from a pulp and seeds,

so you can plant them and they will grow into wildflowers.

Packaged them up pretty and put them in this little suitcase
with a Thank You  banner.

Wish I had more pictures, the food was lovely and fit the international theme:

 spanakopita/Greece, egg rolls/China, meatballs/Italy, gazpacho/Spain, and lots more.

It was a wonderful day with wonderful people!

I am so proud of Jackie and Sean for doing all they had to do

to make their dream (baby) come true.

Here's your freebies...baby-themed, of course :)

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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday!  

Lovely blues at Anything Blue Friday!

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

Creative living, decorating, and craft ideas at Inspired Sunday!

Lovely tablescapes at Seasonal Sundays!

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!

Vintage creativity at Knick of Time Tuesday!

Be inspired by Inspire Me Tuesday!

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!

Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Nest Friday!

 
♥♥♥ Thank you so much for visiting and for all your lovely comments!! ♥♥♥
Have a great weekend!

Happy Pink Birthday!!

Hello Friends!
And a big Happy Birthday to Beverly of Pink Saturday fame!

And best wishes for many more!

Speaking of birthdays, I participated in Heather's Happy Birthday Matchbox Swap

last month and had lots of fun making paper birthday cake boxes.

I covered the matchbox in pink music paper

and made a band with eyelet paper from Martha Stewart.

I glued a cake box that I made from a template on top,

embellished with lace, pearls, festooning and a couple of coffee filter roses I made.

I love making these little cake boxes,

they're so much fun to decorate and tuck a little giftie inside!

Here is one I made for my friend Brenda:

And finally some pics of my son-in-law's 30th birthday

when I made crowns for everybody.  I started out making one for him,

then one for everyone who had a summer birthday,

and from there the project ballooned out to include everyone!

Sorry for all the pics, I know this isn't Facebook, lol,

but I didn't get a chance to take a pic of just the crowns

before the guests arrived!

The birthday boy:

As he put it, that's my life on a hat!

His 30th birthday and pics of the things he loves: my daughter, San Diego Chargers,

Sacramento Kings, New York City, Macy's (where he works),

dinosaurs and flip flops (for fun).

A pretty bird for Chelsea and a cupcake for Aynsley:

 A travel crown for Bob, leopard skin and feathers for my wild child,
 and Wizard of Oz theme for Wende.

San Francisco Giants for Sean and Paris for Jackie.

Kevin's crown has birds and a nest,

that's me with butterflies. 

A road warrior crown for Mike and a retro crown for Jim who just turned 60.

Sooo much fun!

Everyone was a good sport in sporting their crowns.

Happy Birthday,  

Beverly, I hope you celebrate in grand style!

Here's a little birthday giftie for everyone:

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Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday.

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by White Wednesday!

Have a great weekend!

Paper Soiree, Book Bundles and Tags

Hello Friends!

Our little swap group Paper Soiree is shaping up quite nicely.
We've had two meetings and have met new friends,

sipped champagne,

 and oh yes, swapped and created!

Michelle is the owner of Paper Tales and kindly lets us meet there.

She is also wonderfully talented and a member of the group!

I blogged and posted a pic of my altered journal for the first swap here.

We sipped champagne with lavender simple syrup

and munched on lavender shortbread and lemon bars.

Then we made book bundles for our make-and-take,

here is mine:

Embellished with burlap and muslin roses

and lavender and hydrangea from my garden.

We've met for the second time and swapped lovely cones
filled with artsy goodies, this is the cone I made.
It's not a great pic as I shot it indoors,
and I much prefer natural outdoor lighting.



topped with muslin roses, and embellished with one of my fave images
from the Graphics Fairy:

And further embellished with vintage lace, a vintage beaded earring and festooning.

Our make and take this month was shabby chic French perfume label tags:

Here's a little freebie if you'd like to make one yourself:

Our next swap is based on a little banner I made for Marti,

who had a birthday in June.

We're a little obsessed with all things French,

so this little banner spells OUI!

However, with all the GLITTER on this banner,

it was difficult to photograph,

here are my two attempts:

Again, it was indoors, so not a great shot.

And lastly, some very sad news.  My sweet, sweet little kitty has settled down for her final nap.

(BTW, this picture is of her actually napping.)

I am heartbroken and miss her soooo much.

She was my little baby.

But she lived a good, long life (21 yrs!)

and was so loved by many. 

She chose us to be her family, and she truly was family.

Take care of each other!

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by White Wednesday!

Have a great week!

*aRt*pArTy*!!

This post is a bit overdue.
Our art party meeting this month had a "Royal Wedding" theme:
the swap was an embellished bridal shower favor box:

(all of them)

(the one I made)

the food was tea party tidbits:



and the make and take was altered crowns. Sorry no pic :(

It was so much fun...
kind of made up for being left off the royal wedding guest list :P