Sweet as can BEE Adalynn

J had another baby and we celebrate babies at our church.  This was J's 3rd so we had a diapers and wipes shower for her.  You can never have too many diapers and wipes when you have your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, baby...you know what I mean?!  Anyway, E and C and I were the hostesses.  E  came up with a couple of idea for the theme.  One was "Sweet as can Bee" the other was " A new Little Honey in Town".  I liked them both so we used elements that fit both themes, Pooh, honey pots, bees, honey combs.

I really didn't think I would have trouble finding bees to hang from the ceiling but it turned out to be.  I ended up making bees from papermache egg shapes.  I painted them yellow then put the face and a couple of stripes on with a permanent market.  I had Hannah and Jim color the bee bums while I used black chenelle to wrap the bee bellys to make another stripe and a way to hang the bees.  Jim tied fishing line ot the chenelle.

I make honey pots by cutting brown paper with my Expression and the shape from the Disney Pooh and Friends Font cartridge.  I sized it to cut 4 pots from a 12x12 sheet of heavy card stock.  I stacked 3 honey pots and sewed straight down the center.  I left the thread long on the top so we could hang them from the ceiling with the bees.  Well, I didn't hang them.  My darling Jim did it for me.  He is such a good egg!  I stacked 3 of them together so I could fan them out and give the honey pots more dimension. 

E and C did the food for the shower.  I don't have pictures of the food but I will get some from P.  I wasn't able to attend the shower.  Bummer.  I had to work that night but I did have fun setting up for the shower!  I know they made a yummy yellow colored fizzy punch, cupcakes that looked like bee hives, and did a fun treat with marshmallows and yellow colored sugar. 

Today I worked in the nursery at church and I got to hold little Adalynn.  She is a sweetie.  I can so see her older sister in her face.  So cute! 

Well, here are some pictures from the setup of the shower.

I used yellow tipped quilt pins to put up the banner.  I was hoping the pins reminded everyone of bees.

I stamped the yellow napkins with black CTMH ink using PTI stamps from Honey Bees and Honey Bees Sentiments

The Pooh and characters are mine.  They used to belong to my kids but they outgrew them.  Now they are mine...LOL!  I will always love Pooh.

I went with pretty unconventional baby shower colors, black and yellow, but it really made the bees POP. 

I made candy center pieces that were used as a prize for one of the games.  I cut the hexagons and stamped them and then stickled them for sparkle.  We arranged them on the tables to make you think of honeycombs.  The wooden bees on the table came from Michaels.  They were painted on one side and had black felt stripes.

I saw the candy jar idea at one of the County Market Food stores that I have been working in lately.  I started by taping a chunk of a pool noodle in an ivy jar.  I glued candy to the noodle with my hot glue gun.  I glued the paper wrapper end to the noodle not the whole candy bar.  I alternated yellow colored wrappers and then black colored wrappers to give it a bee striped look...well, I thought so anyway.

Lastly, I wanted to show you the diapers and wipes that I gave J.  I used my expression to cut "Adalynn" four times out of yellow 12x12 sheet of card stock and again out of a black sheet.  I sewed them end to end using black thread to make a long banner.  I wrapped the diapers and wipes with that banner.  Unique!

<^..^> Lori

We are going in multiple directions for the next few days. The high school and the grade school don't have the same days off. What a change having Hannah in high school has been this year. We don't get to eat dinner together as much as I would like. Hannah needs to be at the school for marching band practice before Jim even gets home from work so she has to eat earlier. But we will make it work as marching band is nearly finished. I am really proud of how Hannah has handled it all. She rose to the occasion and even kept up her grades! What a wonder she is! She was so concerned about going to high school and who wouldn't be...but she is doing it very well.
Last night a group of us put on a baby shower for a sweet lady at church. This is Christy's first pregnancy and she is in the home stretch. She got so many lovely outfits. We used a tea party as our theme. Priscilla, Gloria, Erin, and Jennifer were my partners in this adventure. We used real tea cups and tea pots. Priscilla put a sweet baby quilt on every table as part of the decoration. The quilts were all great but the one her sister made that was based on the readers Dick and Jane was my favorite. I loved those readers as a child.
The dishes were just so much fun. We had plates of cucumber sandwiches and cream puffs and little cookies on each table. Priscilla put those together for the tables. Erin and Jennifer made a yellow cake with pink and white icing. They topped it with a couple of Boyds Bear statues.
The gifts were all nice but my heart was touched when Christy's mom gave her some items from Christy's childhood. Lovely old baby outfits, shaw, afghan from a grandma. Real history for the new baby...who is going to be called Abigail Marie...to wear.
Chrisy's mom gave a lovely devotional for lack of a better word to call it. She wrote a loving letter to baby Abigail. Very touching to hear her read it.
Abigail is due in a couple of weeks so I will keep Christy in my prayers daily because God is faithful to hear my prayers. He will keep them in His loving hands.
I made a name banner for the wall and cut some tea pots out for decorations on the cake table. Christy took the banner home to decorate the nursery. Her colors were chocolate brown and pink. Great combination! I used the scraps to make 2 scrapbook pages as part of my gift to Abby.
Gloria was such a trooper. She did whatever was asked in the preparation of the tea and she washed dishes and help clean it all up at the end. I have some great friends through our church and Gloria is one of them.
Even ladies that could not come to the shower sent gifts to Christy and Abby. That is such an encouragement! Don't let an opportunity to bless someone else pass you by...participate in your church events!