A Baby Shower of Roses

Last fall I was given a beautiful Shower of Roses for Our Baby as we were preparing for the arrival of our little "Rose." Recently a good friend of mine delivered another precious baby girl, and since one of her patron saints is St. Therese I thought a little rose themed baby shower would be be just the thing to celebrate her arrival!

It was rather a last minute thing, since I had been without a kitchen and on crutches, and so I only had a couple ~~weeks~~ hours to plan, not to mention PRAY that our kitchen would be at least close to being finished (the cabinet doors were installed the day before the shower!), so I told her it would probably be more like a "sprinkle" instead of a "shower." Even though it was rather thrown together, it turned out to be a lovely afternoon.

~ Invitations ~

I didn't have time to mail out invitations, so email it was...

Thank goodness for the stationery feature on my iMac!

~ Guests of Honor ~

Amy with her little Sweet Pea

I had wanted to make a Baby Sock Corsage for Amy, but having run out of time, ended up just pinning a single "rose" made from a pretty pink ruffly sock.

~ Decorations ~

Fresh cut roses, of course!

Isn't that a cute little rose tea-pot? I found it at Pier 1.

Speaking of Pier 1, I also have a total love of rose shaped candles right now (ever since I received a box of beautiful rose candles from PJ. THANK YOU PJ!!) and just cleaned our Pier 1 store out of these Pink Rose Tealights! LOVE them!

I loved Lacy's idea of tying roses to the bottom of balloons for a "Shower of Roses" and knew that I just had to get some balloons! Thank you to my Hubby for running to the store while I finished getting ready! :)

Marci brought candles and little ceramic roses to decorate the table.

I also set out one of my little St. Therese statues with the pretty little rose tea-pot that Amy gave me last year.

~ Games ~

I wasn't planning on doing any games, but at 1 am the night before I decided that we *had* to at least have a couple games...

I am sure everyone else agreed when they realized that they all got to have some baby food as an appetizer! ;)

Uuummmmm, YUM! ;)

We also played "Name the Baby!"

Next time I will be sure to not wait until the ~~night before~~ early morning of the shower to print the games... Apparently my computer switched around the numbering and I was too tired to notice! Oops!

Rose Candle Holders with Tea Lights were the prizes.

~ Refreshments ~

Hubby ordered the cake for me from Costco. (I "erased" the writing on it for this blog post.) I had him ask them to use their special autumn frosting colors of burgundy and sage green, along with baby pink. Didn't it turn out so pretty!

"Perfectly Pink Party Punch"

1 liter Ginger Ale

1 liter Raspberry Soda

4-6 scoops of Berry Sherbet

and 1/2-1 cup Frozen Raspberries

Coffee, Cocoa and Tea...

... served with cream and sugar...

... and chocolate roses!

~ Gifts ~

Amy received all sorts of gifts for her and the baby - darling new outfits, a nursing cover, a beautiful baby book, and a big group gift of a new pack-n-play!

~ Favors ~