prepping for the baby shower

Naturally when we found out that my sister-in-law, Sarah, was pregnant- a bunch of the ladies in the family wanted to throw her a baby shower. So we all sat down one day and had a brain storming session on what we wanted to do. With Sarah's help, we decided on a pink, yellow, and orange color scheme and a few games. When it came time to talk about food- I remembered the super cute dessert tables that my aunt puts together on the side- she call's her little business "Sweet Insanity." I showed everyone pics on facebook:


Of course, everyone thought the idea was super cute- so I volunteered to take charge in the food department. I started texting my aunt right away and a few days later we sat down and started planning. We had so many cute ideas, we couldn't even fit all of them into our final table plan.

We finally decided to do a "Sugar & Spice and Everything Nice" theme on a round table with a diaper cake center piece, mini spice cupcakes and fruit with fruit dip (per the mommy-to-be's request), cupcake push-pops, popcorn cones, brownies, cookies, lemon squares, and rice crispy treats!

Even though the shower was like a month away at this point, I started working on things right away. I knew that with as busy as my schedule was, the shower was going to sneak up on me.

One of the first thing I worked on was fruit cups!

I got some colorful tulle and some cheap little plastic wine glasses from the dollar store and tied tutus around the stems!

They were pretty time consuming, but they were too cute! I couldn't not do them! I think they turned out adorable!


I also worked on putting together the popcorn cones. We didn't have a stapler when I made these, so I had to glue them all- it took a while but it was worth it.

Thank goodness for my new cricut that if nothing else, does a great job at cutting out circles! And my mini-xyron that turned those circles into stickers for me, so I didn't use up all my glue sticks!

The brownie bites got packages in little treat baggies with pink and yellow ribbon tying them off and a homemade sticker on the back. I had orange ribbon too- but naturally, I couldn't find it when I needed it!


I made little ribbon flag for the rice crispy pops that I made. Thanks Aunt Lara for showing me the nifty trick to those! I was doing it the hard way and she showed me a much easier way that looked WAY nicer.

The next thing I can't take credit for- this was all Lara and the pictures aren't all that great- but it was the most awesome thing on the table in my opinion. Mini Cupcake push-pops!


These are lime flavored tester's that she made. We stuck a sticker on the front and they looked (and tasted) fabulous!

And last but not least in my shower prep is the diaper cake! I wish I could have gotten a picture of all the diapers laying around my living room while I was working on it.





My sister, Jessica helped me tie the whole thing together. It turned out huge! I used probably about 400 diapers and it had a diaper genie hidden in the middle.