Book Themed Bridal Shower

Before my cousin's wedding, we had a bridal shower.  It made complete sense to use the decorations I had been working on for the wedding to decorate for the shower.

Here is an overall view.  We hung the fabric garland and one of the banners on the window.

We used one of the table center piece groupings on the table.

 And we used one of the table runners we had made out of music book pages.

We just had a variety of sweets for dessert and for party favors, we put a few chocolates in a small cellophane bag topped with a doily and some ribbon.

 It was really quite convenient to use the same decor for both:)

Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet {Carnival}

Just thought I would finally post pictures from our blue and gold banquet.  We decided to have a carnival theme.  Mostly because we thought serving hot dogs would be easy!

On the back wall of the gym we wanted to set up a display for the boys to show off what they have done in scouts the past year.

 I took pictures of the boys dressed like clowns the weeks previous and printed them to hang on the wall.  I also had fans that I had used for previous occasions that I was just able to add cute centers to from Catch My Party.

 Love that I got to hang them with mustache washi tape.

 I made these pinwheel centerpieces a few years ago for the blue and gold banquet.  Then I have just been able to add to them for whatever theme we have.  This year I made some red/white stripe to go with them and cut out some mustaches on my Silhouette.  We also had popcorn, animal crackers and peanuts and mints for table scatter.

 I had made this "concessions" sign for a family reunion a few years ago.  It still worked out nicely.  We also had a sign that said "Pack 407" at the entrance to the gym (didn't get a pic).

 We served hot dogs and chips... easy peasy.

We had each den come up with a game that would help the boys with one of their achievements or electives.

Our wolves came up with a ring toss and a ball toss in cans.

 The bears did a bean bag toss... the boys even painted the lion themselves.

And I used my mustache washi tape to mark off on the floor where they could throw from.

The Webelos den had a photo booth... My amazing Webelos leader had a lot of props and the kids and adults had a blast posing for the camera.

 And to finish the night, we had cotton candy!

The boys and families had a good time!

Western Blue & Gold Cub Scout Banquet

Howdy partner!  I just wanted to take a few minutes to share with your our blue and gold banquet this year!  I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I'm not creative!  I'm great at stealing other people's ideas and making them fabulous.  A friend of mine did a western theme in her ward, so I stole her idea.

Let's start with the invitations...

I wanted them to look like a "wanted" poster.  I looked at several ideas online and combined them to make it work for me.  I have photoshop elements and I love it... it's easy to use and inexpensive.  I tore the edges and inked them to make them look old and dirty.

 My favorite part of the whole thing was my centerpieces.  I borrowed and bought a few bandanas... I wanted them to be blue or gold.  Then, I went to my dad's farm and cut some old barb wire off a broken fence.  I just wrapped it in a circle twice and wired it together.  The pinwheels in the mason jars were made for the blue and gold banquet last year.  I simply added a cowboy silhouette cut from my "A Child's year" cricut cartridge.  And I found some bandana print ribbon at Michael's to put on the mason jar.  Then, I tossed a horse shoe on the table with it!  I only drew blood a few times, but totally worth it!

 Here's a picture of the whole table.  I wish I would have gotten one with the food on it!  We went to Village Inn and they donated old pie tins to us to use for our dishes...

 In the back of the gym, I hung a line with "Wanted" posters of each boy.  I went around to their den meetings the week before took their pix.

Here's a close up... it has the scout oath at the bottom.  Thanks for the idea Brandy!

So, here is a picture of the whole back side of the gym.  (P.S.  I hate the colors of our church)

 On the other side of the gym, I set up the "chuck wagon."  I cut a few bandanas up into a banner and cut letters out of black felt to attach to them.  We served sloppy joes... and sarsaparilla (homemade rootbeer) and had everyone else bring salads, baked beans or dessert.

 My son was assigned to bring dessert, so I made a cactus cake... it was super easy.  I just baked it in a glass pyrex bowl.  Then I frosted it with green frosting... kind of a spiky tip... I can't remember the tip names.  Then I stuck spaghetti in it!  The "dirt" was crushed cookies.

Our church does not have a stage...weird huh?  So, I set up my own stage.  My brother just so happened to have a wooden cow (but that's whole long story).  I borrowed the cute milk jugs from my friend Brandy.  And I just made a stage by hanging bandanas over some twine.  For the entertainment, we went through the scout books to find something that was a requirement (or elective) for the boys.  The wolves did a skit, the bears made their own instruments and had a band and the webelos did the scout promise in sign language.

 Finally, here is a picture of the other side of the gym!  It seriously turned out soooo cute!!!

Baby "Shower"

My two youngest sisters-in-law are having babies!!!  Both in September.  One is having a boy and one is having a girl.  I'm super excited to have babies in the family!  And I'm having fun making baby gifts and planning showers!

Shower #1 for baby girl was this past weekend.  I LOVED this idea of a "Shower" themed baby shower.  I pretty much copied what she did, but added a few minor details.... and took out a few.

 Here are my invitations... pictures don't do them justice.  The cloud is a shimmery paper.

 Here is kind of an overall picture of the table set-up.  We had it outside in my sister-in-law's back yard.

 We hung rain cloud (tissue paper pom poms) from the arbor above her patio.

 This umbrella is a vintage umbrella that my grandma had.... It was actually the reason I wanted to do the "shower" themed shower.  The original ruffle was white and was quite dingy.  So, I unpicked the ruffle and attached a new ruffle.  My sister-in-law had made these pink coffee filter poofs for another shower, so we stuck them in the umbrella.

 We made watering can centerpieces and used them to mark the path into the back yard.

I loved this idea of centerpieces out of rain boots.  I borrowed boots from some of my friends that have girls.  They turned out so adorable!!!  We punched the flowers out of solid and patterned papers and had them in varying sizes.  We put buttons in the center.  Then we hot glued them back to back onto the wooden skewers.

 This is what the table looked like when it was the food table.  The Partyland near my home sells sixlets candy in solid super fun colors. I had my mother-in-law put those in cute glass containers.  We had a pasta salad and rolls from Texas Roadhouse:)

I couldn't resist the cute striped straws.  They are so adorable.  I would have had us drink out of mason jars, but we were travelling almost 300 miles for this shower and I didn't want to haul the mason jars in the car.

 Here is the dessert table.  My cute niece made oreo truffles covered in pink candy melts... yummy:)

I made the cupcakes.  I used the same shimmery paper to make the clouds for the cupcakes.  I found the sprinkles and wrappers at Michaels.  ( However I just ordered some super cute striped and animal print cupcake wrappers from Pick Your Plum this morning)

I used this White Texas Sheet Cake recipe for the cupcakes and they were super moist and super delicious!

I think the shower turned out great and we are super excited for baby Jennika to get here:)