Jinny and her husband Bryan are two of my favorite people in the whole world and I would do anything for them. They are expecting a baby girl on June 6. Jinny mentioned to me that she has been craving sweets through out her pregnancy, so Becca and I decided on a cupcake theme for her shower.
Becca baked all the cupcakes, both little mini ones and regular size. She made lemon, raspberry and almond flavors. We used cupcakes not only as the refreshments, but also the decorations. We also incorporated cupcake cookbooks into the decor.
Becca picked the colors of pastel green, blue and lavender. We used lavender tulips in decorating both inside and out.
For refreshments, we tried to provide a variety of sweets besides the cupcakes
Mini cheesecakes with lime wedges
Cake pops that I made and decorated myself so they turned out a little demented. Rachel is the cake pop maker in the family. This is the first time I have ever made them by myself.
I served three chocolate items, chocolate and coconut cover almonds, chocolate meltaways with lime, raspberry or lemon filling and frozen chocolate covered banana bites. The cute tulip plastic cups were for coconut/pecan popcorn made by my friend Nicole Conlin.
The only slightly healthy thing on the table were cups of green grapes and honeydew melon in keeping with our pastel green color scheme
Becca and I went to Barnes and Noble to look for theme ideas when we were in the planning stage and came across two darling children's picture books that centered on cupcakes- one was "When You Give A Cat a Cupcake" (from the "When You Give a Mouse a Cookie" series). We thought it would be cute to use those 2 books for the guest books and let the people sign in by writing best wishes for Momma and baby on the inside flaps of the books. When Jinny reads to her little bundle of joy she will always remember where those books came from, and who was at her shower.
1 comment:
Awesome job! Its adorable! I wish I was there to have seen it in person.
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