You might ask what is that all about, well it is about the little guy we were all expecting to come into this world. He is here and his Glammy finally has time to sit and write about his welcoming party.
I know I have said before that I have been blessed with girls that have
allowed me to throw parties for them. My oldest even let me do her wedding with
little input! She wanted to help with the shower but I wanted her to be just as
surprised as everyone else. As soon as
she gave me a theme, I went with it. I just love the chevron patterns and
burlap so I threw those in to.
I want to thank a special young lady, Kiara
from Keaton Photography. She photographed some of the photos you will see here and in the next 2 installments. If
you live in the Central Florida Area, I HIGHLY recommend you call her. She is
such a delight and has captured many family moments for us!
Since I know from the wedding how time
consuming actual invites are and the fact that we did not want anyone to be
excluded from the shower and we could keep track of everyone coming, we decided
to do Evites for the invitations. We mainly used facebook as the reach point
for everyone unless they were not on facebook, we emailed a link. Which almost
went off without a hitch until I got a message on facebook a week later asking
why they were not invited. I could not have been more clear “if you can see
this, you are invited” probably 6+ times. While I feel bad that someone felt left
out, I made every possible attempt to make sure everyone knew. Again, if you
are reading this and felt left out, I am so very sorry, it was not our
intention.
My daughter did ask that instead of a card that they give a book so
that he had his own little library. It is almost cheaper to by a book than a
card now in days. Here was the saying on the Evite:
The planning was 2 months, which for all I
want to do, is not a lot of time. I planned on doing everything by hand and
designing it myself. While I did use Pinterest as inspiration on some things. I
shared with you a couple of months ago the paper flowers I made. Dani did get
to help me on those but she had no idea what I was doing with them.
I made several fabric chevron bowties. I
had no idea at the time what I was going to do with them.
I decided since I was going to need so many
paper mustaches and bowties to buy the diecut for them. It was a fun time
cutting them all out!
I found a print at Kirklands of a
blue chevron mustache ON clearance for $5, It was PERFECT above the fireplace.
I knew I wanted a banner with DANNY on it.
I just had to figure out exactly what I was looking for. I found alphabet
burlap letters at Hobby Lobby. I needed 2 sets for the n’s. I used my 40%
coupons. I did find that with each letter I used, the sides that were cut on
the burlap were not sealed, so I took clear nail polish and ran along all the
sides. I used the bowties I made to go between the letters.
I had extra letters and decided to use them
for the “cards” suitcase,
The “mom” to be table
And the “gifts” area.
It all looks adorable.
There is so much more to “show” you. I am
breaking this up into sections. Please look forward to the next post!
Peace, Love and EnJoy
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So special, so thoughtful and so loving! What an encouraging woman you are. I love you sister!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you got to come and enjoy all of the festivities leading up to it! Is is wonderful to be sisters but it is a blessing to be friends. Love you too ;)
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