Twin's Baby Shower

I was going through some pictures on my camera... and found these pictures I had taken of the baby shower we had for my friends twins- I posted a tutorial on how to make the diaper cake, but hadn't posted any of the actual pictures of the shower....so here they are

she had one boy and one girl!! so I was very creative and decorated in Blue & Pink LOL

I served Breakfast... and had lots of help with the food from family & friends- have I ever mentioned I hang out with some amazing cooks?

Fresh fruit and dip is always a hit...

I love making these yogurt, granola & fruit parfaits for every occasion- so yummy!

Jamie made a cute tag to tie onto bags of pink & blue gumballs for a hand-out  "Bubble Trouble"  for everyone to take home!

I bagged up a few.... then left bags, tags and a jar of bubblegum for the guests to make their own- 

Along with the muffins,fruit and parfaits we had a yummy Breakfast casserole and sausage roll-ups.....   

It's always a perfect day... when I can spend time with some of my favorite people- and eat wonderful food too!!  And on top of that the Mom to be received so many fun & needful things for two of the cutest little people on the planet!! 

Diaper Cake

I hosted a baby shower last week for a Mom having TWINS a Boy & a Girl!!!  How fun is that going to be?  I am way excited.... I'll be getting 3 Grand-babies in the next few weeks!!  FUN-  I wanted to make a diaper cake for the center piece at the shower & after looking at them on line- I decided the ones I looked at were really complicated.  So here's what I came up with- it was easy and worked up in less that an hour. I bought 2 pkg. of the newborn diapers and didn't use all of them on the cake- I should of counted how many I had left, but I didn't I just tied them up with some bakers twine & put them in with her gift!  So if you buy 2 bags you'll have enough to make this cake & have extra!!

First lay the diaper down like the first photo- then starting from the bottom roll it upward as it shows in the 2nd photo

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when you have 3 diapers rolled, bundle them together with an elastic. 

Continue to roll them into bundles of three until you have as many as you want for your bottom layer.  I used a glass cake plate to put them on. Set all the bundles on top of the plate and then with some string wrap all of them together. Tie them secure and then take the elastics off- it will look like this.  I had around 40 rolled diapers on the bottom layer. Once they are tied together, if you need a few more just roll them and stuff them in with the others to fill out the circle. 

Do the same thing for the next layer.. making it a little smaller to stack it on top of the bottom one.

And again for the top layer- I used 6 diapers on top.  Now it's time to put the ribbon on.....

Wrap your ribbon around each layer- I attached it with a couple of straight pins, just poke them right into the diaper.  It worked so much better that gluing or taping them.

Then you're ready to decorate with some cute fun baby "stuff" rattles, ducks, toys, booties, medium size bottles of lotion, shampoo, wash, oil, and powder. I tied all the bottles & the ducks with ribbon and just sat them on the diaper ledge and on top of the cake. The rattles and other things I also tied with ribbon and bakers twine then I attached them the same way I did the ribbon around the cake... with small straight pins.

And that's it... it took less than an hour to make and turned out darling!!! So if you have ever wondered how hard it would be to make one- try it, I promise you will be surprised how fun and easy they are!! 

Baby Girl Shower

I had such a fun time last night and today getting ready for this darling Baby Girl shower for one of my friend's step daughters!!  See for yourself...it was a success... the Mom to be was so excited-- she is darling & my friends home was the perfect place to host such a fun, exciting, happy time!!!!

 You know how I LOVE chocolate dipped oreo's.... you can never have too many of those yummy things

 I am so hooked on the glass jars to display the vegetables in.....

 as I said you can never have too many oreo's-- I like to have them on a platter to eat while the party's going on... the other ones were wrapped in little plastic bags, so they can be taken home to enjoy for a midnight snack... or eaten on the way home if you're like me & have no will power... Love these plates we found at TJ Max!!! the ribbon makes them so darn cute......

 And here is the darling Mom to be.... enjoying the spread... she is going to be a cute Mom!!!

 Raspberry filled cupcakes with WONDERFUL butter cream frosting.. with vanilla & almond extracts!!

 I decided to make the "bubble bath" punch PINK instead of blue.... so cute & tasty too....

 lot's of yummy food, the chicken salad was to die for--- don't think I'm ready to share that secret recipe yet.... I'm going to indulge it a few more times & try it on a few more people first..... then MAYBE I will let the recipe out of the bag, you're just going to have to believe me when I say it is good & healthy... no mayonaise here!!

 The banner Jamie made was so cute... Baby Pearl... how darling is that name???  I think we will have to start a little shop here on the blog... showing all the cute things Jamie can make...she is amazing!!! and makes me look so good!!

Oh the strawberrys were lovely... costco came through again!!!  They are so good with the pineapple recipe I have already posted on the blog... look it up & try it ..   such a fun day... and now I'm on my way out the door to go to my little Grandson's 4th Birthday party!!!  YES our life is one big party after another!!!!!