Bicycle Baby Shower

My neighbor Annie and I threw a baby shower for our good friend Meghan last Saturday and had lots of fun. We did kind of a bicycle themed shower. If you didn't see the invite look here. If you are throwing a shower I'm sure you already know, but it can get expensive fast, but I'm proud to say we did pretty good. The key is borrowing things and searching around your house for stuff you can use.

Recognize the fabric? Scraps from my first quilt. 

Also awhile back in this post I made these flowers for my shirt. Well as I was searching my house for ideas I came across my flower so I made four more and grabbed some sticks in my front yard and made a bouquet. 

We didn't want to do the games cause we felt those are kind of boring and no fun and since it was an open house wouldn't have worked out that great so we just had people write advice on these little onesies. I got this idea from this blog. My favorite piece of advice was "scream in the closet." :) 

Another awesome idea I discovered. Just walking around in stores I kind of get ideas. I went to Orson Gygi and saw a table runner that kind of looked like a scarf, more money than I wanted to spend so I looked through my closet and found the scarf you see on the table and it worked perfectly. 

Congratulations Meghan can't wait to meet your cute little boy!!! 

Baby Shower Invite

I finished the invites!! It took me what seemed like forever for me to decide what I was going to do. With enough Internet surfing from  here here and here  I was able to conjure up this....

They are not as cute as they were in my head :)...isn't that how it always works....but Meghan likes them so that's all the matters.

Supplies:

Kraft Paper

Bicycle Stamp

Ink

Fabric

Iron on Transfer Paper

Iron

Corner Rounder

They were fairly quick, cheap, and easy to make. The only difficulty I had was getting the "It's a boy!" to be mirrored so that when transferring it onto the flag it would be correct. Just a little tip you can mirror text on photoshop, but I didn't know how so I just googled a mirrored text generator and there are quite a few of them,but only one of them did it the correct way. If you are interested in doing something that needs mirrored text let me know and I'll try and find the site again.

Gathering Ideas

I'm throwing my first baby shower in March and I can hardly wait. I need  to get invitations made and out soon so I have been gathering ideas and I would love do this if it didn't cost a ton which I have a feeling it would. I saw it here. Maybe I could make a smaller version. Does anyone know any good sites for ideas?