Back to school! - A school themed baby shower

Again its that time of year again. Starting tomorrow morning 7am it's back to alarm clocks, packed lunches, uniforms, homework, drop off's and pick ups.  It's with mixed emotions.... great that routine and structure will commence again and of course more uninterrupted time to manage our upcoming functions will be a blessing, but unsettling also, as we can't believe how fast they are growing up and our youngest little boy is off to pre-prep so there is sure to be tears (from mum...) when he steps into his new class room!!

Anyway -  to celebrate the return to school, We thought we'd re-share this school themed baby shower that we featured last year and with so many new followers on board we are sure it will be well received!!

This baby shower was put together by Whitney at Whitney Smith Photography for her friend, who is a primary school teacher.

It is filled with all sorts of cute details; blackboards, cookies and milk, lunch bags, apples for the teacher, school books and a gorgeous personalised baby shower book. All the guests left notes for the baby in here, along with a list of gifts and other mementos.

Another adorable feature was prepared by the mum-to-be's class. They all wrote down pieces of advice on parenting for her - maybe not overly helpful, but certainly amusing!

Enjoy!

And stay reading as next week we will be featuring another baby shower that we managed recently, think sage green, lemon, white and birdcages!!

Till then - The Inspired Occasion

We're over here today...

Just wanted to let you know that I am blogging over here at the Handmade Hullabaloo today! It's all about Easter decorating.....

Would love it if you dropped by!

Also...our Ladybird Baby Shower from a couple of weeks ago is the Catch My Party Party of the Day! You can see it here.

It's been an exciting day!

Ladybird Baby Shower

There is something so special about baby showers; the opportunity to celebrate a new life, to spoil a new mum and to have a few laughs and champagnes with friends.

So, we were thrilled when we were asked to do a baby shower for a gorgeous friends 2nd baby. She knew she was expecting a girl and really gave us free reign to come up with something fun and stylish. How could we say no?!

We chose a theme of spring fresh colours with pink, red and a light green. A ladybird seemed a perfect fit, so we changed her around a bit and gave her a red and pink coat instead of the usual red and black.

For the afternoon tea, we provided a small savoury table and a small dessert table - perfect for 12 ladies.

The savoury table featured; hand made scrolls with delicious fillings such as olive and feta, as well as the traditional ham and cheese, hot pastries, zucchini slice and elegant finger sandwiches.

The dessert table included; carrot cake cupcakes with a dreamy cream cheese icing (can you tell this is one of my favourites?!), an assortment of slices, some mini chocolate cupcakes, fresh scones with jam and cream, white chocolate cake pops and some fresh berries.

The highlight of the dessert table though, had to be the divine cake that Alex made. It's a chocolate mud cake with a butter cream icing and dusted with a pink edible glitter. The design was inspired by this one made by 'I am baker'. As soon as we saw it, we knew our gorgeous ladybird baby would look divine lying on top of it!

We also set up a simple drinks station for the girls to toast the guest of honour. With buckets of champagne, decorated glasses and individual mineral waters for each of the guests, it was lovely to be able to carry the theme across.

And what's a baby shower without games? We provided a 'guess the baby in the bottle' game, a trivia game, a 'pin the dummy on the baby' game and finally, a baby ballot to guess the date and weight of the new arrival. The girls all got into it and had a lovely afternoon.

Finally - big congratulations to the guest of honour on the safe arrival of her baby girl. Mummy and baby are both doing extremely well!

Back to school special!

It's the last day of school holidays here. Tomorrow it's back to lunch boxes, uniforms, drop off's and pick ups. For me, it's bitter sweet.... sweet that my daughter is back at school, she is starting to get bored (and therefore whiny), but bitter as well, because we only have one more term of Prep then she is off to Grade One next year... can't believe how fast she is growing!

Anyway -  to celebrate the return to school, I thought I would share this super cute school themed baby shower. It was put together by Whitney at Whitney Smith Photography for her friend, who is a primary school teacher.

It is filled with all sorts of cute details; blackboards, cookies and milk, lunch bags, apples for the teacher, school books and my favourite - the gorgeous personalised baby shower book. All the guests left notes for the baby in here, along with a list of gifts and other mementos.

Another adorable feature was prepared by the mum-to-be's class. They all wrote down pieces of advice on parenting for her - maybe not overly helpful, but certainly amusing!

Enjoy!

Carousels and Cakes

This week seems to be all about beautiful cakes and divine baby showers this week... Not that we are complaining! Earlier in the week, I posted a fabulous party from Live the Fancy Life here. It was bright, bold, fresh and fun, incorporating lots of personal and handmade details.

On our facebook site, I also posted this photo......
(found originally on the A. Party Style blog)

Which I just love and it seems you do too!

Anyway, so when I came across these images on the Bobbette and Belle blog, I just had to share them with you all. 

This is truly a divine and classic baby shower; the muted colour scheme, the elegant details, the AMAZING cake, the gorgeous flower cupcakes, the carefully decorated macaroons, oh and did I mention the AMAZING cake?... bliss. 

Anyway - enjoy the photo's and jump over to the Bobbette and Belle site to check out some of their other amazing cake designs - they are super talented.