Ahoy Baby!

I had the lovely pleasure of hosting a baby shower for an old friend. The nursery theme is nautical, so naturally, I totally stole it for the shower.

Meet Pepper Octopus. He's almost as lovable as Nannerpus. Almost. 

The most beautiful cookies made by Lenka at Instantly in Love. 

Go like her Facebook page. DO IT. You won't regret it.  

The whales are spouting hearts.

 HEARTS, PEOPLE. 

After you like her page. Order some cookies. 

I'm a sucker for paper lanterns. 

You probably can't tell, but those deviled eggs are little boats with pepper sails. 

We're fancy like that. 

Wishes for the baby and messages for the parents...

Tie it all up and put it in the bottle!

Quinoa salad with endive boats

We also served Life Preservers for dessert, which were grilled pineapple rings and mini donuts. Get it? So clever. There are no pictures because Yannos and Zoe ate ALL OF THEM and they weren't even guests at the shower.

A Shower to Remember

Saturday there was a baby shower up in here!

Not for me. For my friend.

First, I have to brag about the invitation I made.

The grey blocks have text under them, but not everyone needs my cell phone number and home address. I made the yellow ombre chevron pattern in Photoshop using this tutorial. Then I just adjusted the opacity on each layer in order to make the ombre. 

I was inspired by things like this. 

I wanted the invites to be bright and happy, so they went in yellow envelopes with a lemon sticker to seal them...

The lemon sticker printouts came from this website.

I was so happy when I found the perfect flower stamps at the post office...

Now for the menu. I really wanted the food to be pretty, so I liked the idea of one bite appetizers that were all about the presentation.

• Appetizers
• Watermelon, feta, and mint
• Cucumber soup (this has some kick to it FYI)
• Dates with goat cheese and almond

• Main Course
• Vegetable frittata (red onion, red pepper, green pepper, mushroom, and zucchini)
• Chive biscuits
• Asparagus bundles (some in prosciutto and some not for the vegetarians)
• Strawberry Salad

• Dessert
• Fruit Salad (apricot, pineapple, red grapes, grapefruit, oranges, and watermelon) 
• I wanted it to be in the yellow color family, so no green or blue fruit. 
• Cake
• Drinks
• Mimosas
• Rosemary Lemonade (there is no recipe for the concoction we ended up with!)

Onward to decor!!

We had a 2 dozen spider mums, 3 paper lanterns, 3 tissue flowers, and swirly things. What's a swirly thing? 

This is a swirly thing

And the cutest little favors, which had glazed lemon cookies in them baked by another host. 

I cut squares of yellow fabric that I had leftover from recovering Zoe's glider and then stamped them with alphabet stamps. I used the same lemon printouts as the stickers on the invitations, but just printed them on card stock. 

It really came together nicely, but one of my favorite things...

She's using CLOTH DIAPERS!!!

Yes, that requires caps and 3 exclamation points.