A Purplicious Baby Shower

Purple is not a color I have much experience with. Every woman on my mom's side of the family hates the color, and therefore I never gave it much thought growing up. As luck would have it, Mistress LOVES purple and has picked it as her favorite, and I have begun to realize that I actually like it as well. (Sorry Mom!) So when a friend and I decided to throw a shower for a neighbor having a little girl, we decided to branch out past the traditional color for girl baby showers and go with a purple theme!

First off, the wine charms. I made these using scrapbook paper, a little ribbon, and several oval shaped punches. After printing off different baby themed words in purple on white card stock, I added layers of light purple card stock and dark purple polka dotted paper, and finished the whole thing off with purple ribbon. We served a non-alcoholic purple punch (really good) in martini glasses rimmed with purple sugar. Everyone knew which glass was theirs!

The purple sugared martini glasses...

A closer look at the glass tags...

On the left, the purple punch. We put the canisters on white cake pedestals so that it was easier to get the glasses under the spouts. On the right, ice water. We thought it would be really cute to float purple grapes in the water for some extra color. Just so ya'll know, grapes sink. Live and learn...

For some simple decorations, we made some purple and white pom poms to hang from the chandelier and a purple bunting to hang across the tops of the windows. The bunting was really easy and SO cute! Seriously, 20 minutes worth of time and about $3 worth of fabric and ribbon. I'm sure there will be bunting in my house somewhere soon. I'm thinking over Mistress's windows...

A closer view of the bunting...

When it came to food, we kept it simple. A fruit tray, a veggie tray with red pepper hummus, purple and white yogurt covered pretzels, nuts, and a cheese a cracker tray. Because you HAVE to have sweet at a shower though, my partner in crime made these amazing lemon blueberry cupcakes with purple frosting. YUMMO! I have no photographic documentation, but we also used purple receiving blankets in lieu of table cloths and let the mommy to be take them home for use when baby gets here.

We didn't do any games, just enjoyed chatting with each other. We did do one fun thing for the mommy to be though, everyone wrote her a note on a diaper (using a purple marker, of course) so that when she has those late night changes she'll know that we're thinking about her. Now we're just looking forward to meeting little Miss B in a few weeks!