Karyn's Baby Shower

When I found out Karyn was expecting her 4th baby, I knew right away that I wanted to plan a great shower for her. The shower took place during the first week in December so that's why you see some of my Christmas decorations up already!

Here are some pictures of the decor.

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The little feather tree was decorated with baby ornaments & pacifier & safety pin charms. The little ceramic cradle holds guest name tags. These were made from a paper towel folded like a baby diaper. One diaper had a small mustard stain and was used to play the Dirty Diaper game.

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Dollar Tree umbrella that I glued colored cardstock circles to. The lanterns and decorations had the matching polka dots.

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I made the diaper cake using ribbons to coordinate with the theme of the shower. It is hard to see, but I also made little baby shoes from scrapbook paper and ribbon. The pattern can be found over at Two Peas In A Bucket's gallery. Each shoe was filled with Hershey nuggets candy wrapped in customized wrappers that matched the invitations (bought these on Ebay).
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Here are some pictures of the dessert table. I made decorated cookies & cupcakes. There were also mini eclairs and cream horns. There was punch, coffee & bottled water to drink. I replaced the water bottle labels with customized labels that matched the invitations.

Each cupcake was topped with a lifesaver pacifier. These are super easy to make. Take 2 white lifesavers and "glue" them together with royal icing to resemble a the handle & top of a pacifier. Then "glue" a jelly bean into the top.
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The Guest of Honor arrives! ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Karyn & her Mom.
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Here's a picture of Ronda from Ronda's Rants with her DIL & beautiful grandbaby.
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We played typical Baby Shower games like a mom's trivia game, how big is the belly, & dirty diaper.

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The loot presents: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Karyn opens her gifts.

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The Fruit Loop Necklace: I was invited to a baby shower blessings shower where each guest was asked to bring a bead to make a necklace for the mother-to-be to wear during labor. The necklace was supposed to calm the mother during labor or something like that.

Anyway, Karyn & I had a really good laugh over it and she told me that she would like a Fruit Loop necklace. This way would have a snack if she got hungry during labor! Too funny!