Pink Winter Baby Shower!

It’s been a while but I’m finally posting the photos from the Pink Winter Baby Shower we did at the end of January. Everything turned out so lovely and the weather here in Florida cooperated that day as well, nice and chilly, perfect for a snowy winter themed pink shower!

Here’s the invitation I posted a while back. You’ll notice some glitter on the pink snowflakes, most of the buffet cards, advice cards, and other little signs had glitter accents on them as well. Something so simple can add so much.I created all the paper products for this shower and I really had fun with it. Snowflakes make a great background pattern and if you add pink and some glitter it takes them to a new level! (If you’re interested in this design please let me know as I’ll be offering it in my etsy shop!)
This is the full dessert table. (quick note: I set up the table at home the night before the shower specifically to photograph since I had a feeling there wouldn’t be time to take pictures right before the shower started.)About the backdrop, while I was shopping at Walmart, I took my routine “stroll” through the craft department. I usually look past the yarn as I have some and I don’t usually have a use for more…usually. But, as soon as I spotted a roll of this lovely, soft, pink puffy yarn a picture just grew and grew in my mind of covering the backdrop with it. It looked so perfect for “baby”. When I got to the task of adding it to the board I realized it would probably look better with a pattern of some kind on each side. I found this silver snowflake wrapping paper on clearance and voila! it was almost exactly as I imagined. (Yay!)

The dessert table consisted of white chocolate/strawberry mousse, lemon sandwich cookies, homemade marshmallows, cheesecake pops, chocolate covered pretzels, brownie pops, and cream puffs – all of which I made. The cupcakes and pizelle cookies shown above are ones I made as stand ins for this “night before” shoot. My sister-in-law replaced these cupcakes and chocolate covered pretzels with some tasty ones of her own! The other items we added were donut holes, caramel popcorn, chocolate kisses with stickers to match the theme and strawberry malt balls. (More about the “tree” later.)
I found clear acrylic plates on clearance and thought what better way to add my pattern paper and the Christmas glittered snowflakes. Perfect snowy touch under the sweets!
I saw the cutest cupcake accent in a party that was featured on the HostessBlog: royal icing snowflakes. I had to make them and instead of using them on cupcakes, I topped the mousse with them. Cute!
For favors, I found a great idea on the make and takes blog for Hot Chocolate on a Stick. Since this shower I’ve seen them everywhere and there’s a good reason. They’re fun and they’re tasty! In this case, I made a white chocolate version to match the color scheme. mmmm

To accent the table we used a tree branch. I sprayed it with the snow in a can and then hung the favors on it.
Sarah, the (then) expectant mom (who happens to be my other sister-in-law) asked for a Gift Card shower so we used this great snowflake embossed basket for all the cards. We also had a Diaper Raffle and I made a little sign for that too. I created Advice cards in the wintry theme and used a small photo album to collect them all for Sarah. Room accents included little silver/glitter pinecones and studded cone trees. The shower was held at Sarah’s mom’s house and she lit the fireplace. What great ambiance!
We also had a savory table with veggies & dip, mini spicy quiche, chips/salsa, and spinach dip with Hawaiian bread rolls. For drinks we had punch and, of course, hot chocolate. I added rolled wafers to each mug for the straw/stirrer effect!
You may already know that Sarah delivered their little bundle of joy in the middle of February and everyone is doing great!