Two Sisters and a Husband

Hello everyone! I'm so sorry it's been a while since I've put up a new blog. I've had to spend the last few weeks concentrating on controlling the morning (all day) sickness. I've been sadly ignoring my blog in the mean time! I promise things will get rolling soon! Getting out and taking pictures of cute kids and cute things have been on Kelly and I's back burner.

Below are some pictures of a baby shower I helped throw for my good friend Staci. Since then, Staci has had a beautiful baby girl, Addison Leigh. Please note, that since the baby shower her name has changed! I'm still going to post the ADORABLE block pictures of her name then; Olivia.

Some simple tips for throwing a baby shower:

-Buy reusable decorations, or kill two birds with one stone and use decorations that you can eat! One simple idea is to hang a line of wire with clothes pins and hang 5$ onezies. If you are throwing the party, Don't be afraid to use parts of your gifts as decorations. Your guest of honor will understand why your gift bag is absent or low on gifts!

-Don't be afraid to NOT pick a theme. There are so many cute ideas out there on the internet. There is no reason why you can't take the "pop corn : shes about to pop!" favor idea, while you have a blow up duckie tub filled with ice for drinks. People will remember all the cute things from different themes.

-Do try to stick with a color scheme. Since you may have different themed decorations, its best to keep things flowing with the same colors.

My favorite website to "borrow" ideas:

www.oneprettything.com

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Above invitation:
Done by me!! (edited to take out name and addresses)

These are small 4x8 brown paper bags used to store homemade popcorn balls. I love themed baby showers, but I prefer to take all the cute things and roll them into one! For instructions on how to make these bags go to my previous post titled How to Install a Font from the September archives. Those are fonts from Kevin and Amanda.com and the clip art is used from one of their Doodle fonts.

A few things to remember if you are printing on brown paper bags:

When you follow the directions on how to change the paper size, just type in the size of the bag.

Remember, you don't want to print on the side with the edge down the middle.

Fold the bottom flap the opposite direction, and hold with a piece of tape. Otherwise it will print on the side with the edge through it.

Leave room for the top and bottom margins!

You can use these for just about anything. We used this idea for our favor bags for our wedding too! You can use any size bag!! ALCOR in Miamisburg has a wide range of sizes, however, you need to buy them in bulk, which is still about 7 dollars.