Holly's baby shower

Holly's baby shower was a post baby affair. We held it at the Springer cultural center in Champaign, IL, where we had a nice huge room to ourselves. Unfortunately, I was running late that day, but I had lots of things pre-made.

ready to party

As you can see, the entire crafty area is covered with preparations for the party. The daisy's are pens, simply popped the ends off and hot glued the flowers in. I didn't wrap the pen parts with flower tape, but I thought about it. The daisy's went in the buckets as centerpieces, and were favors. We also made a daisy ball centerpiece with the pens in it.

centerpiece

We had a quiet shower with lunch and no crazy games, as baby was in attendance, she was the focus.

I ordered candy from oriental trading and we got custom lollipops, pink chocolate balls,  green candy sticks, and gumballs. We had leftover soaps from the cute as a button shower in february, so those were also out as favors. 

We had Holly pick all the candy flavors so she'd be happy with everything. The hit of the party was the crafting station, of course. I set up headbands, clips, and various ribbons and novelties and let the party guests go wild with it. You can see the daisy ball on the table, it's a styrofoam ball that I stabbed the daisy pens into.

The headbands all turned out pretty fantastic, and Holly loved them!

It was fun seeing all the creative sides come out of so many different women. And Baby Madeline looked amazing in them.