Celebrating the Parents-to-Be, Part II

Good afternoon . . . this cold weather just won't let up! At least it's not too bad today, but we're even supposed to get more snow this weekend. Sigh. 

Today, we'll continue to look at baby showers and feature some cute decor and food ideas that I found online. 

Let's start off with this adorable fruit salad shaped like a cradle. It looks easy to prepare and makes a great healthy dessert! I was unable to find the source of the photo. 

From the blog for Invitesbaby.com, here's a cute take on the safari theme. 

The storybook-themed shower is a popular one. I love the shabby chic decor by graphic designer Lindsy E. Archer. For the food, she set up easels based on classic children's books (for example, red velvet cake balls for Little Red Riding Hood, ham sandwiches for Green Eggs and Ham, and chocolate-covered strawberries for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Spaceships and Laser Beams always has great products and ideas! In this photo, they feature a "precious cargo" theme for a baby boy. Propeller cake pops are stored in a wooden crate, A "baggage claim" with s'mores is also featured.

Are the parents-to-be expecting twins? The "pea-in-the-pod" theme is one that can be used in a variety of ways. You can use either candy or gumballs for these adorable party favors. Cutest Baby Shower Ideas shows you how.

Finally, from Whipperberry, this is a very creative and original idea called the "Little Bug Shower," which features vintage VW Beetles. Although this party was styled for a baby girl, you can change the colors for a boy or make them neutral if you are not going to reveal the gender. My favorite is the use of a bicycle wheel, where guests wrote their wishes for baby on decorated tags and placed them in the spokes of the wheel. 

It's time to feature some more baby shower games from our shop. Our first game is called "Author, Author!" Party guests will unscramble titles of children's books and then match them with their authors. This is the perfect game for a book-themed shower.

Next up, we have "The Baby Name Race" game. In this game, party guests will fill in a baby boy's (or girl's) name for each letter of the alphabet against the clock. In the sample below, I've used a car theme complete with a checkered border. The customer will receive two 5 x 7 cards on 11 x 8-1/2 inch paper and is customized to fit your party theme!

The last featured game for today is a traditional word search featuring items found in a baby registry. As an option, we can include a hidden message. Once again, the customer receives two 5 x 7 cards on 11 x 8-1/2 inch paper and has a choice of color, wording, or font.

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Women's History Month Fun Fact of the Day: More American women work in the education, health services, and social assistance industries than in any other industry. These three industries employ nearly one-third of all female workers (Source: U.S. Census). . . . Also, Happy 73rd birthday and a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin! 

We would also like to wish happy 81st to Gloria Steinem! The founder of Ms. Magazine, she is one of the leaders and spokespersons for the feminist movement of the late '60s and early '70s.

Celebrating Milestones: We reached 100 "likes" on our Facebook page yesterday. Thank you for all your support, and for my husband Matthew for helping to promote the shop! 

Have a PRINTASTIC Day!

Kathy