Jamie's Nursery Rhyme Themed Baby Shower Part 2

Here is the other table setup we did for Jamie's shower. (You can see the first table setup in our last blog post here and if you scroll to the bottom of this post you can see how they both looked together in the room.) The focal point for this table was the chalkboard. Jamie's husband, Josh, built this one for me the same way I built the one in our dining room. You can see the tutorial for it here. This time I painted it in Ashley Gray instead of staining it and then had some fun adding part of a nursery rhyme to it.

Here is the left side of the table:

We dipped pretzels into white chocolate that we tinted to a grayish purple color and added some white sprinkles and for the cream cheese frosted cupcakes we added some Little Bo Peep silhouettes (we will be selling those in our shop in the very near future). On the cupcakes on the other side of the cake we added little lamb silhouettes.

And here is the right side of the table:

In case you hadn't noticed yet, =) I LOVE the striped straws by the TomKat Studio. I have purchased them now in brown, pink, gray and light purple.  I got the little plant holder this summer in Peterborough, NH at a store called Collections at Laurel and Grove and for the party is made a great little holder for the plastic spoons and forks as well as white chocolate covered pretzels, straws and later for pens for people to use when filling out some of the cards we had laid around (I'll post more about that in a minute).

We got all of the flowers from a shop called Country Fresh Flowers and Goods. They were all gorgeous!

Along with the Storytime and Baby Druke Cards (the downloadable ones say Baby Guesses) we also had a Wishes for Baby card. We are now selling these as printables in a set of three. Along with lavender we are also offering them in blue, pink and brown!

Our pages we used for the banner and also the "Hickory dickory dock..." printout are now available to download and print as well! You can find all of the detailed photos of this table in our last post.

And here are a few pictures from the actual shower (like everyone in our family, Jamie gets embarrassed with everyone just watching her so she asked Lillie, Lola and Abby to help her open her gifts):

 

 Have a wonderful Tuesday!

Jamie's Nursery Rhyme Themed Baby Shower Part 1

Well, I finally finished going through all the photos from Jamie's baby shower. I took quite a few and even after weeding through them and picking just a small percentage to edit I think it would still be too many pictures for one post so I am going to split it up into two. Today I will show you the smaller table setup and then next I'll show you the larger table setup. 

Jamie wanted to do a subtle nursery rhyme theme in her nursery. She's decorating her nursery in a gray and lavender color scheme so we decided to incorporate the same theme for her baby shower. As usual, to help keep costs down, with lots of help from my mom and sisters we tried to make as many things as we could. We will be offering several items in our shop as downloads including the pages to make the banner as well as cutouts and several fun print outs that I will share in the next post.

Our biggest splurge by far was the favors. We had little white chocolate mice from Burdick's.  We took a few out of their pretty packaging and placed them in front of a page we printed out with the "Hickory, dickory, dock..." nursery rhyme and added a silhouette we drew and cutout.

My mom made the delicious cake pops and she and Lillie made the cookies as well. 

The large clock in the back was the focal point of this table and helped both with the whole "Storytime" feel as well as the "Hickory, dickory, dock..." vignette in front of it. 

The adorable little purple and white striped cups on the bottom shelf are from the TomKat Studio. I have a few more things from them on the table I will show you tomorrow. I LOVE their stuff!

 

I hope you all have a wonderful week! I'll be back with more pictures either tomorrow or Tuesday!

Ellie Style - Engagement Party

A little Ellie-Style engagement party post. (Not my engagement, I've been married for 3 whole years believe it or not.) These pictures are from over Christmas, but I got too busy to post them. Anyway, a good friend of ours just got engaged so we celebrated in a classy way. He's a Virginia winemaker, so we were sure to drink some good wine. Everyone was dressed in their fancies while we sipped wine, congratulated the couple, and socialized the night away. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the actual engaged couple themselves.

 Scarf - Korea, blouse - TJ Max, clutch - Etsy vintage, jeans - Gap, shoes - Nine West 

...facial expression in the first picture - oh, don't mind me looking stoned. I need to learn to "smize" like Tyra.

I love gold right now! Just can't get enough. Nail polish, polka dots, spray paint...love it all!

 The venue for the party was beautiful! It was at our friend's parents house, who live on the vineyard where he makes wine. The house sits atop a hill, while the vineyard flows out from the house. During the day it is a beautiful Virginia country vineyard view. At night though, this was the best I could do picture wise. Still a beautiful place.