hip2thrift: babyshower

My daughter has been making sure to remind me regularly that she is a a big girl and a princess. So, I've been working on making changes from a baby looking room to more of a toddler or as she reminds me - princess room.

Because we live in an apartment that we rent, where not much can be done to the walls, I decided to make this bed canopy, that provides a lot of impact for minimal wall or ceiling damage; also satisfying my daughter's pleading for anything princess related.

It is absolutely perfect and my daughter is absolutely in love with her 'princess bed'. Head over to Craftaholics Anonymous, where I am sharing how to make this super easy bed canopy.

Have an awesome weekend and lots of hugs,

A friend of mine is having a baby girl after two boys. I wanted to do a baby shower for her and wanted it to be low key, that didn't overwhelm her with girly stuff, but that in the same time gave her a taste of girly -ness.

Having all these parameters in mind, the obvious course of action was to go chevron (right? I am not the only that thinks it obvious, right?).

I went with very simple decor - a white table cloth with a chevron runner (really it was just a piece of chevron fabric I had, and it wasn't even hemmed), my cute cake platters, most of which were DIYed.

For food, there was just a simple pasta salad, rolls, butter and a fruit plate. I took care of the desserts: Gluten Free Cupcakes (one of my friends actually frosted them because I am a terrible froster), cake pops, meringues, chocolate covered oreos, and a yummy european marshmallowy thingy my mom used to make that I don't know the name of (pictured above).

I love this next appetizer food - just absolutely love it. It is very simple and fast to prepare and I make it for all parties and it is the first thing to be gone.

Recipe for the Caprese Skewers will come in another post. If there is anything else you would like the recipe for, let me know and I can share it with guys.

For party favors, I made marshmallow, candy melts popcorn - bagged them and topped them with a chevron label. I also brought all the favor supplies with me and bagged left over desserts for people to take with.

Although it seems as a very simple shower, and it was, none of that simplicity was present at my house. See the shower was at another friends' house, and I prepared everything at mine. It seriously looked like a tornado hit my kitchen and craft nook. There was pop corn everywhere, pots and pans, dishes, melted chocolate splattered on walls, butter exploded in the microwave - just a big mess.

I am also glad my dessert table at the shower didn't reflect how it took me a few hours to find my card stock paper which I had only purchased the week before - now my craft nook is a total disaster and few things have been saved.

Other than that it was all nice and peachy. I hope you guys have a wonderful week.

Hugs,
Iuliana