Yesterday we hosted a baby shower for some very dear friends. I did a few crafty things for decorations, including some yarn balls I could've made better use of, but hey.
I combined some water and Elmer's glue, soaked some yarn in it, then wrapped small water balloons and let them dry before popping the balloons. I used them in a balloon structure and meant to use them as table decor, but got busy setting everything else up and forgot. Classic Katherine.
I also made some food picks by cutting out cardstock circles with a paper punch and affixing them to toothpicks. At first I just used Elmer's but it was too wet and kept getting unstuck, but glue dots did the trick!
For favors I made some cake pops and turned them into little flowers. My original plan to use spiral-cut cardstock to make rosettes but that was a huge fail, so blue cupcake liners came to my rescue. I did use some cardstock leaves to jazz them up a bit.
I wrapped the pops in plastic wrap and sealed them with some floral tape before adding the leaves and cupcake liners.
I think everything came together pretty well. The shower started at 11am so we had a brunch menu with a biscuit bar and mimosas among other things.
I made this lemon berry cake with some storebought buttercream icing...I wish I had brushed the cakes with some limoncello or something because it was a little dry.
This picture affords the best shot of my balloon backdrop - I made a small one by affixing balloons to chicken wire with ribbon.
At the end of the party we cleaned up a bit and re-decorated for a 4th of July party for some more friends and family! I popped the green balloons over the fireplace and replaced them with red, and we took up several decorations to replace them with stars and stripes. It's been a long weekend, so today I'm taking the opportunity for some R&R.
