Shower day!

I had so much fun planning this shower.  I used very little in the way of store-bought throw away decorations.
I really started out with nothing but a crocheted baby blanket and bunting that was my intended gift.
Once I decided to use that as part of the decorating- it just escalated.

Lezlee at Prior Lives had posted about a vintage themed baby shower she had hosted and she gave me several ideas with that post. Couple of odd/funny things I'll just mention.  Lezlee and I have never met in person, but we don't reside very far apart. In fact we live in rival school districts...but in her post she showed a picture of an old Tupperware doggie 

 and well, when I was doing some last minute shopping at our local Goodwill-  I found one of those same dogs!  I couldn't believe it.

  I remembered seeing hers so I grabbed it up along with some buy one get one free linens -- in this case some baby receiving blankets, and table cloth and a handful of cloth diapers about 5 in all!  Some of it was free (love free!)
 A few of the decorations I put together were- booties candle votives  made out of washcloths, crocheted ribbon, mushroom cans (or small tomato sauce) and little votives or you can use baby food jars and tea light candles...













*edited to add this picture of the wash cloth booties*

I also shopped Dollar tree for the consumables- plates, napkins, forks and spoons and cups.While I was there I grabbed extra napkins and ribbon , candy mints and medicine (mouthwash) cups.  Little tiny cups... I made booties for party favors- to hold the mints!

these are empty w/o the mints and peanuts yet.

Once it got down to the decorating-  I was kind of let down that I hadn't had a little more to decorate with- but not wanting to spend the money on crepe and paper table clothes, banners, etc - due to the expense and wastefulness of it... I was starting to get  a little bit  disenchanted with the whole shower.

Well, I'll tell you my grand -daughter had been with us Saturday evening and some company had popped in while she was here...so after everyone had left I began tidying up (afterall , I'm having a party the next day, right?)   I started looking at all the toys as I began putting them in the toy box basket...I began sorting them, along with the child books and well, as you can see from the pictures- It just took off!

I had a vignette for each book...Little mini-themes!  I even had a table top with eating in mind.

you recognize my little chair!

One for Farming...

and one for Thanking God- along with a well placed Bible and some building blocks and keys ...afterall God's word is the foundation and key to living to Please the Father!

I spent $30 on this shower- and that is if you count the $10 I spent at Goodwill-- and the most expensive thing I bought there was the Dog! The other $20 was for consumables and bootie favors.... well, party favor booties! Everything else I had and or it was part of my gift... A couple of the games we played ended up being gifted to my daughter (the mom) after we were finished playing with it! I might mention too- My oldest daughter helped to put this shower together and she bought the cake-  but you could and we almost did go even cheaper and make muffins-- not cake, or cupcakes - but banana nut, blackberry, and carrot cake type muffins.  Really it depends on the Momma- after all it is her party!
My daughter would have been ok with it. But the Older decided to buy her sister a cake-

 We bought a plain cake with blue icing and writing... I did the topper for that too! Just a baby bottle and some blocks...HEY!  I started out with a block theme in the beginning. Blocks are toys!  ... I guess my imagination just ran away with it!

So much fun!
Now we have to do it ALL OVER again in July-- Only in Pink! 
Oh yeah!  I never told y'all--  I said I'd come back and reveal the gender of our second GRAND due this summer in August---
It's a GIRL!  

I had the best time-

God Bless you
and
Thanks for reading!