And why, you might wonder, would a household of boys need girlified decorations? Because a few days ago, I hosted a baby shower for a sweet baby girl who recently arrived in our neighborhood. It was a "sip and see" style shower for everyone to ooooh and awwww and make a fuss over the baby. And because my neighborhood residents have a schedule as crazy as my own, when we pulled out our calendars to plan a workable date, we discovered that the best date was merely a week off. Yikes.
Queue the easy peasy decorations. First up, some flowers made by folding and gluing precut cardstock strips. I hung the flowers with fishing line from the dining room chandelier. I think they'd make a great garland...
I also wanted bunting but had neither the time nor the future occasion to warrant stitching one up. As a compromise, I assembled temporary bunting by folding precut quilt squares over twine. And as a bonus, working with the lovely prints has me convinced it's time to finally quilt them...
And of course there were cake pops. Super simple but girly red velvet cake pops. And I want to note that even though the party was pretty much kid-free, there were only two pops left--so I think adults like them, too.
The short notice did not leave me enough time to make a set of my signature 'welcome baby' personalized burpers. Hopefully I can get to those soon. But I did knit up a quickie hat and a pair of sweet booties...
The hat is the same pattern as Will's beanie, just sized down to fit a newborn. And the bootie pattern is from a vintage magazine my mother-in-law handed down. I tucked both of these handknits alongside some store bought girly clothes. Yes, store bought...because I'm sorry, I know I'm a proud "gift homemade" supporter but you can't blame me for grabbing a chance to shop in the little girl's department!
Sandra