Bridal Shower! March Card and Tag Swap!

Hello Friends!

The themes for the Swap for All Seasons swap in March
were Spring and yellow.



I don't use yellow much in my crafting, but I love this image
that has just a splash of yellow.
I love the spring-y background and her wistful look.
I wanted to keep the card simple
and let the lovely lady be the star.
A bit of vintage lace and vintage millinery flowers:



And my tag:


They say April showers bring May flowers...

I was hoping the showers would wait until my shower was held...
I hosted a bridal shower at my home
for my daughter's lovely sister-in-law last week. 
The sun was in and out but no rain!
The décor was organic, garden-y,
with a bit of herbs, yellow, burlap and chalkboard.  :)
 Her sister and sister-in-law were the real hostesses,
I  did the décor
with a little help from the bubble girls
(flower girls who blow bubbles).
 
Nine year old Ainsley made the favors herself,
homemade bath salts (below).
Don't they look great?

I love how these champagne glasses look

lined up on the burlap ribbon:

One of the hostesses made these lovely little tags

with a different herb for each one

and the trait that the herb stands for (above).

The caterer made a beautiful table of delicious food:

I had fun making this photo op

with a French garden shop look :)

OK.  Now I'm ready for April showers!
We dearly need them in Southern California.

Some sunny freebies for you:

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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!

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!

Surprise! Baby Shower! Valentines! Freebies!

Hello Friends!

Hope you all are thawing out out there in the East and Midwest!
We have been having some embarrassingly warm HOT weather here,
I feel like we've been stealing the sunshine!
But things are getting a bit more normal.
Which is to say, 70 degrees and sunny :)

I had the most wonderful surprise last week!

You may know that I am in a local craft group...

Our meeting last week was supposed to be our

yearly Valentine's party, 

which is always a fun one, with pink and red and hearts, etc.

So I made my item for the swap,

which was to be a Valentine's Day banner:

And a sweet treat,
pink Rice Krispies hearts with an arrow:

And just cuz it looked so cute,

Caprese Salad with heart shaped mozzarella cheese: 

 BUT, when I arrived.
instead of pinks and reds,
I was met with BLUE!!

SURPRISE!!!

My wonderful friends surprised me with a lovely

Grandma's Baby Shower!!

I hadn't suspected a thing,

although it was more than a month in the making!

Look at the wonderful decorations by Marti and Pam!

These adorable pinwheels:

 

This lovely banner which says "Welcome Grandson":

Look at these adorbs little boats:

Marti even enlisted the help of her husband and daughter

 in the making of the banner and boats :)

There was champagne...well, to be honest, there's always champagne ;)

and the food was marvelous!

Chicken pot pies:

Cupcakes:

 More cupcakes, pasta and cheese, ceviche, salad, fruit, cheeses and more!

I am sorry that I didn't take more pictures,

but I was quite overwhelmed!

Ooooh, and there were gifties!!

A Grandma's brag book, and all the most adorable papers and embellishments 

I could ever want!

And...

how adorable are these little baby shoes 

that they made for me:

Crafted with paper and embellishments,

aren't they the cutest!!

It was a wonderful evening, 

♥♥♥ thank you, lovely Ladies, so much! ♥♥♥

Baby is threatening to make an appearance any minute,

so my daughter is on bed rest.  

This is my first grandchild,

who has been eagerly awaited for several years.

Very exciting!!

Here's some freebies for your crafting pleasure :)

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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday.!  

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

Creative living, decorating, and craft ideas at Inspired Sunday!
Seasonal tablescapes at Seasonal Sundays! 

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!
Amazing things at Amaze Me Monday!

Vintage creativity at Knick of Time Tuesday!

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

Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Nest Friday!

Sweet and Simple links at Sweet and Simple Friday!

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