Baby Shower DIY

Simple stuff that you can make for a baby shower or any party! Here are some that I made for my baby shower and my friend's.

Fabric tassle backdrop for the Photo booth 

Very simple. Follow these 5 steps: 

1. Snip your fabric whatever width you like. Mine was an inch. 

2. Tear the fabric straight down using your hands to give a frayed look. It might not end up being straight, but it looks better that way. 

3. Tie the strips to a string. 

4. Tie knots at both ends of the string. 

5. Hang it up. 

The photo booth props

For the mustache  and bow:

1. Mustache - trace a mustache on a piece of felt. Cut out the mustache. Can print mustaches from catch my party.

2. Bow - Cut out a strip of felt (6 inch long by 1 inch width). Fold both ends so that they touch each other in the middle of the strip. Glue them down with glue gun or fabric glue.  Pinch the middle of the strip. Cut out another 1 inch width 4 inch length strip and wrap around the middle of the other felt piece. Glue it down. You can also follow this tutorial to make a fancier one.

3. For both mustache and bow, spray a fabric stiffener and place them in the microwave so that they harden.  Follow instructions on fabric stiffener bottle. 

4. Hot glue them on dowel.

For the other props (crown, eyeglasses, crown), download and print images  from oh happy day and follow the super easy instructions on how to make them. 

Mini pillow ornament

Refer to my post on how to make a mini name pillow ornament.

"You are Loved always" wood quote for guests to sign

Take a look at my post you are loved for how I made the sign.

Pom Poms

I didn't do the pom poms for my baby shower, but I did some for my friend's. You can also buy them folded up already from Martha's Stewart, Michaels and other craft stores, and fluff them out yourself.  However,  it's very easy to make and cost maybe $2 each. Buy your strings and gift bag tissue paper at a 99 cents store. You can actually make two pom poms from one bag of tissue paper, depending on how full you want it to be. 

Here is a great tutorial on how to make them. She's making a small pom pom flower, but to make a big one  you just need to use gift bag tissue papers. 

You might also find this tutorial from martha stewart helpful.

Dots photo booth backdrop:

Follow these three steps:

1. Get free paint swatches from your favorite paint or home improvement store. 

2. Use a hole puncher (2 inches) and make circles out of the swatches. 

3. Glue them on a piece of fabric. Here I used a felt fabric, but you can put it on whatever you want. 

Sweet Baby...

BOY!

The cake at our baby shower says we're having a boy! OH BOY!

95% of our guests had it right. The other 5% were still happy because they get to eat the cake either way.

Here are some details on how our gender reveal baby shower came to be and the PARTY itself. Lots of fun. 

At our 20th week ultrasound we asked the technician to write down what we're having on a card that we provided her. She then sealed it in an envelope. We weren't sure if we wanted to have a baby shower, but the option was there to have a gender reveal party. Our friend, Priscilla and Cecilia, wanted to give us a baby shower so Mr. T and I decided that maybe we'll turn it into a baby gender reveal/baby shower. Now that it's been decided we contact our friend, Joyce, to see if she can make us a cake. We held on to the envelope until my 27th week then we gave it Joyce to make the cake with either pink (for a girl) or blue (for a boy) filling. After the gender reveal at the baby shower she gave us back our card. This is what it said:

Our friends along with our family contributed to the party. Lots of work, especially on the part of Priscilla, who was the host and put everything together. Party turned out perfect, even with the cloudy weather outside. 

The decoration has a bunting theme because I love how festive and whimsical it looks. My color theme was fuchsia and teal. Jean created the amazing invitation, menu, banner, the favor bag tags, and "mommy-to-be" and "daddy-to be" signs that were hung on the back of our chairs. 

Bunting invitation

"Mommy-to-be" sign that was hanging in the back of my chair

"Daddy-to-be" for Mr. T's chair

our cake table

I connect the cake banner along with the chair signs together and hung them over our bed. When he gets his crib, we'll put the banner above it.  

Our Macaroon favor bag tags

When our guests arrived, they wore a mustache pin if they think it will be a boy; a bow pin if they think it'll be a girl.

boy or girl pins

This is the sign that guests signed for the baby. I will have other family and friends who weren't able to be at the baby shower sign it before I seal it and hang it up. 

"You are Loved always" guest sign

Joyce made this great bunting cake for us. Aren't those toppers adorable?

Gender Reveal cake made by joyce

 When it was time to cut the cake, all the "mustache" guests were on one side of the room and the "bow" guests were on the other side. The little kids, especially the girls, stood in front of the cake so they could tell everyone what color it is. They were more excited than we were. Here's a picture of Mr. T and I after the cutting of the cake. If you look carefully you can see the blue filling. 

Mr. T and I after slicing our BLUE velvet cake!

We had a lot of great gifts from our family and friends, but one of my favorites would have to be this diaper cake made by Anny and her cousin, Gippy. It would make a great REAL cake. My father thought it was a real and told my mom to put it in the fridge so that it doesn't melt after they take it home. 

"What will it be?" diaper cake.

"ten little fingers, ten little toes, what will it be? nobody knows"

We also had a photo booth. Mr. T and I love looking at these. We had a lot of people that love us. We're so glad they were there to share this special day with us. Our baby boy will have many wonderful people in his life.