My Sister's Safari Baby Shower

I recently had the pleasure of organising my older sister's baby shower. As she had already decided on a safari theme for the nursery I decided it was also a great, out of the norm, theme for her baby shower.

Delicious After Dinner Mint Melting Moments & Chocolate Bars



Aren't this glass bottles fantastic??? I love them to bits!

I just love these jumbo brandy glasses

Noddle boxes for the guests to take home full of lollies

Some of the guests sampling the lolly buffet

Sorry about this photo not sure how I got this terrible blue shade.

Don't the Bird of Paradise flowers just look divine on the table?

And finally the cake, nothing flash but I just had to try my hand at mini bunting.

One last photo of my mum, sister & myself taken at the party.

Pink Ribbon Morning Tea @ Playgroup

Well the gods were not kind to us today at all, we were meant to have a lovely sunny day so that we could hold a Pink Ribbon Morning Tea at our regular playgroup. However the weather was less then desirable which meant a change of venue was needed so I put my hand up to have a "wet weather playgroup" at my house so we could still raise money for a worthy cause.

As it was held at my place I was able to quickly whip up a few pretties to help set the right mood for the morning tea.

Here a few photos I managed to snap but please excuse the quality of them as I really have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to manual settings on my Nikon. I hope to undertake an online course in the near future on how to get the best out of our DSLR camera then there will be no stopping me.

Yummy meringues made from the latest Donna Hay Kids magazine

This was my first attempt at Cake Pops & although the very talented Angie from Bakerella has nothing at all to fear from me I still think they turned out pretty good.

The vanilla cupcakes! These gave me such dramas yesterday while baking them.

Luckily I had a little bit of hot pink tissue paper around the place so I could make some cute pom poms to hang from the ceiling fan. I'm going to move them into Sahara's room later today as permanent decorations for her.

October is such a big month with different charity events so as well as donating to the Breast Cancer Foundation I will also be donating 10% of my sales from the upcoming Mummas Fair to Stillbirth Foundation Australia. International Baby Loss Week was held 9th - 15th October this year.

Baby Shower Sneak Peak

So as you know I've been madly preparing for my sister's baby shower well yesterday was the big day. Although it was a mad rush at the end & many things were missed due to lack of time & unavailability of some finer details but all guests were highly impressed. I received many compliments on my candy buffet & in particular my tissue paper pom poms. Gracefully a work colleague of my sister's who is aspiring photographer took loads of photos but until they are ready I'll just show you a sneak peak of what I took myself (all up I only had time to snap 5 photos after everyone had left hahaha).

Needing a little bit of colour

Here in Central East Queensland we're experience some pretty terrible weather so I am in much need of a bit of brightness right now. I hope you enjoy the below as much as I did.

Baby Shower Prep

So with T minus 10 days & counting until my sister's baby shower I thought I would share a few pics of the preparations with you.

Here we have a few off the little fellows that will be making an appearance at the party & cute animal print tissue paper pom poms.

Personalised noodle boxes for the lolly buffet

 What's not to love about receiving brown paper packages tied up with string???

I was very excited to unwrap my order from Mon Tresor

Look, look I finally have some retro paper straw & super cute cupcake wrappers. I'm very happy girl now.

Stay tuned for more party preparations & then the big shabang!

 

3 Years & 3 Times The Love

Today is our 3rd wedding anniversary so I thought I would share a few photos, well more than a few but who can't help but show off their wedding snaps. Photography by Leigh Warner Photography