mustache + lips baby shower

Happy day to you friends!

I wanted to share a few pics + details with you from the shower this weekend-

First, I'll let you see pics of the actual party after people arrived and there was food on the table and whatnot. I'm usually terrible about forgetting to take pics during the party, but actually got a few shots this time.

The basic theme of the shower was mustache + lips = Owen

and boy howdy does Owen's daddy (my bro-in-law) have a huge honkin' mustache right now...

Here's the parents-to-be opening gifts,

And Kent trying to diaper a fauxnotreal babe.

Yes, the babe is upside-down.

Here he is again reading aloud some of the wishes that he has for his son.

All of the guests filled out a sheet of wishes for a keepsake book.

And lemme tell ya, they was some doozies.

Funny, funny stuff my friends.

I thought a few folks might pee they pants.

There was a table in the dining room with this on it:

a few photo props,

a chevron-y diaper cake,

and an 8x8 scrapbook with sheets for everyone to fill out for baby Owen.

You know, sweet things that he could read many years down the road.

And some were just that: sweet.

And some were not so much.

Back to the partay-

here's a few pics I snapped before anyone arrived,

hence the no food on the table

I made the table runner and the banner for the dining room in blk/white, but made a red one for the mantel since I plan to keep that one up through V-day.

I found THIS printable with tons of nicknames for a mustache and strung it up in the kitchen-

Here's hubs and me after the party doing the thing that he loves the MOST.

He said he felt silly having a prop, which is funny since he asked for one

on our first date.

So I held one for him...

And as for O man,

he was only too happy to take care of a leftover chocolate mustache.

I've had so much fun working on projects for this party for the past few months and now...

I jump straight into planning another one.

It's Batman mode now, all the way.

Can't you just see Gotham City in my dining room?

I'm off to the Bat cave, friends.

Until tomorrow!

psssst- I've linked this post to

No hoo-ha and a shop update

I've been crazy busy lately stocking the shop which caused a lack of posting yesterday, but I wanted to share just a few things with you-

1. We had dinner with my hubs family Monday night, not just for the sake of enjoying some deliciousness together at Olive Garden, but also to find out whether our kiddos would soon be playing with a little boy cousin, or a little girl. My sis-in-law, Mary Katherine, (yup, same name different spelling) is preggo with a wee one, and as everyone knows, "the day" you find out if you'll be buying pink or blue is pretty important. We endured the usual small talk while being seating, and then my hubs brother pulled out this:

leading us to believe that the bag was a sign of pigtails and Barbies and pink,

however,

it was just a tactic to throw us off,

a trick,

a flim-flam,

a bamboozlement, if you will.

Because this was inside:

There's a wee one with a weenus on the way!

My brother-in-law was quite proud of the weenus.

QUITE proud.

O was also excited about the news as he has enough estrogen around him all the time as it is.

Yay for little boys.

Also,

yay for little girls who want to see the little boy in the funny-looking black and white photos...

Sweet baby boy.

Sweet little weenus.

Excited to be an aunt.

2. I've been cutting and sewing like a crazy madwoman, but let's face it-

there are very few things I enjoy as much as cutting and sewing...

and acting like a madwoman.

 I digress...

I added a few more items to the shop- flowers in pumpkin, baby pink, pink + white gingham, and plum chiffon, as well as a few sets of note cards. ALL PERFECT FOR GIFT-GIVING. DID YOU HEAR THAT, INTERNET?

just sayin.

Also made lots of crimson + houndstooth flowers. A hybrid, if you will. Thanks go to David for the brilliance of that idea.

  

3. And lastly, since we can't turn down a free meal, we had chili at my parent's house last night and this was hanging on their mantel-

You remember when you were young and your parents would hang your artwork on the fridge to show you how proud they were?

It was like that, only in a grown-up version.

(Internet, that's your cue to "awwww...")

**You can get your very own flower pins,

note cards, and houndstooth banners HERE***

Happy Wednesday Friends!