Baby shower sneak peek

emember how I mentioned I was going to show you what I was going to be doing for my sister's baby shower? Well, here are some shots of this past Saturday's baby shower that my younger sister and I threw for my twin sister's baby shower. It was a lot of hard work, but it turned out really nice. My younger sister keeps insisting that we should open a party planning business together, but I'm still hesitant to take the plunge.

I designed these heart lollipop flowers to give out as favours for all the guests.
I had a pink, yellow, and orange colour scheme for the baby shower so I incorporated those
colours in these flowers. My expecting sister wrote personalized messages to each
individual guests in one of the petals.

I made labels for all the foods that we had made so that our guests would know what they were eating.
I propped them up with wooden clothes pins.

A preview of some of the finger foods.

I made these phyllo cups with lemon cream cheese,smoked salmon and chives on top.

My younger sister made these sliders. Aren't they so cute?

I also made these. These are endives with goat cheese, bacon, and homemade croutons.

These are french baguettes drizzled with olive oil, bocconcini, basil, and cherry tomatoes. I loved these.

My sister made these mini crab cakes and her homemade aioli. The aioli was delicious.

Here's the table spread.

We had a dessert/candy station. We put candies in little sundae cups and I incorporated the colour scheme
of the party by using yellow, orange, and pink straws.

My sister loves to bake and she made these delicious mini vanilla cupcakes with
strawberry buttercream frosting. These were a huge hit.

Another view. We also had assorted sandwiches that my mom made, a fruit tray, and
an arugula salad with goat cheese, walnuts, dried cranberries with a rice wine vinaigrette.

We hung my banner that I made on one wall.

I also hung doilies that I had painted in our colour scheme in place of streamers. I think it was much
more elegant.

Here's another look at the favours.

We also had more desserts by the living room where our guests were hanging out.

I bought these Pantone inspired cups for $2 each in our colour scheme and we stuffed it with goodies
as gift prizes at the shower.