Baby Shower Recap

Here's an overview of the baby shower I hosted for my BFF, Heather.

Invitations
The invitations were made using the wonderful downloadandprint.com. I used the "Birch Trees" design, which is intended to be a wedding invitation. The site instructs you to enter your text in Word, but as the editing possibilities are very limited there, I used Photoshop instead. First I took a screen capture of the design parts, and then put them back together at the size and placement I wanted. Then the trees were changed from a gray to a robin's egg blue, and some little bird silhouettes were added in a bright pink. I added the text, and ta-da, done! I took the file to my local copy shop and had it printed on a heavy cardstock. (Note that all the PS work was done with some help from my resident expert, Cory.)

Menu
Drinks:
- Sparkling Raspberry Lemonade
- Ice Water

Sweet:
- Cookie Dough Truffles
- Sugar Cookie Doves
- Chocolate Cheesecake Cupcakes
- Lemon Berry Trifles

Savory:
- Baby BLT's
- Spinach and Artichoke Dip
- Cheese Tarts

I'll be back with a couple recipes later this week. The food preparation was shared with my lovely co-hosts, but even with all that help, the cheese tarts fell by the wayside and didn't make an appearance. I ruined my puff pastry (long story) and didn't have time to improvise. In the end, it was fine, nobody missed them, and we had plenty of food.

   Who better to set the mood for a baby shower than these sweet little muffins.

Heather received some gorgeous gifts, including this owl that my mom knitted.

I made some onesies using this fantastic set of iron-transfers. Pros: I love that they actually transfer the ink, not a plastic-y decal. Cons: the colors came out a lot brighter than the transfers appeared. I preferred them more subdued.

The gorgeous guest of honor!