Bridal Shower

My friend, Krissi, just got married! Woo to the hoo!

She asked me to be one of her bridesmaids, and I was thrilled.  All of the other bridesmaids live up North, in New York, and they threw her bridal shower and bachelorette shindigs up there.  Since, I am down here with Krissi in good ol’ Florida, I wanted to throw her a party to celebrate with her southern friends.  Don’t be fooled though, we don’t have many friends down here.  We pretty much hang with just each other.  Anywho, I wanted to throw a bridal/bachelorette/girls night/Krissi day for my lovely friend.

Here’s what went down…

I knew I wanted to hang balloons upside down from the ceiling, because I have seen many cool examples on Pinterest.  Here is what I came up with…I bought clear-ish balloons and filled them with pink confetti glitter, then hung them from the ceiling with pink ribbon. I’ll give you a quick fun fact about Krissi, she is a health nut, and she was even more so because of her upcoming wedding. So, I made some cupcakes, which were the weight watchers recipe for red velvet.  I threw some colorful sprinkles on top, since I was going for a colorful “sprinkles” theme. I, also, framed a couple of my favorite photos of her and her hubby to be, Sean.I made another good ol’ mimosa bar, because a Krissi party isn’t a Krissi party without mimosas.I had other bevs for the non-mimosa drinkers as well. Plus, these amazing straws…I picked the dog faced straw for my drink, who woulda thought?To continue with the “sprinkle” theme I found these awesome polka dot baskets and serving trays at Michaels. I made white chocolate and sprinkle covered pretzels and popcorn.  I could eat that popcorn for every meal for the rest of my life.  Seriously, melt some white chocolate and pour it over some popcorn, you will not be disappointed,For favors, I did these cute little succulents in mini pots.  The big guy was for the guest of honor, of course. I found these little pink lanterns, that light up, at the dollar store. Sorry for being a bad blogger because I didn’t get a picture of them lit up at night, but it was really cool. Krissi was pretty pumped about the jello shots… Of course, we got her some goodies for the celebration. I drew her pup, Oliver, and also got her a couple things on her registry.   She, also, received some mula and even some pesos for her honeymoon in Mexico! Just look how excited Charlie was about the pesos! And, look how thrilled he was to be smooshed by me!

We had a blast, and we will miss our Krissi so much when she moves back to NY.  Love you Krissi!

Here are some photos from her fabulous wedding…

 

DIY Baby Shower Cupcake Gift

Want a fun DIY baby shower gift?  I got ya covered.

My friend Janine is having a baby, and I wanted to make something fun for her shower gift.  I had seen a couple renditions of this fun idea on, none-other than Pinterest…

I figured this would be something I could re-create without being super time consuming.

So, I picked up some onesies. A few white…

And some patterned…

I also picked up these amazingly adorable baby socks…

So tiny!

In order to make this all come together into a cupcake form, I needed to fold the onesies.  I folded the little tiny sleeves in first, like so…

I then, folded the whole thing in half, and it looked something like this…

Pretty complicated, right?

From there, I took one of the pink socks and rolled it up, so I had a little taco-looking sock…

I then, placed the taco sock on the end of the folded onesie…

Then it was time for a little more rolling.  This time rolling the onesie up with the sock inside.

See what I mean?

I guess my goal here was to make the onesie look like the frosting on a cupcake, and the rolled up sock is suppose to be a little cherry.

Now, I just needed my cupcake tin, where my cupcakes “baked”. Duh! So, I grabbed this guy from Target…

Just your usual cupcake tin.  I also picked up a couple packages of pink tissue paper. Thought these would work well as “cupcake liners”.

But, in order for these to transform into cupcake liners I needed to cut out some circles.

I cut out three light pink and three dark pink.

Then, I just plopped the little onesie cupcakes into the 6 slots.

I was pretty happy with the end product.

What do you think?

From there I just needed to wrap this sucker up.  I decided to use one of those gift basket cellophane bag things.  I picked up this little kit at Target.

It was pretty simple,  I just set the cupcake tin inside, tied it with a bow and voila! Gift in a bag!

I also picked up this adorable stuffed elephant…

And a boy’s onesie, even though she’s having a girl. Why?  Because it has a dog face on it!

And I couldn’t forget about her pups.  They deserved gifts too!

I put the other gifts into their own gift bags, that went along with the girly color scheme.

There you go.  DIY baby shower gift.