Another Shower...

I feel like when it rains it POURS...at least when it comes to wedding and baby showers!
Tis the season and I absolutely love it!

My sweet friend Barb and I decided to put on a shower for Kelly who is just the best of the best! We went with corals and greys with pops of yellows...arranging the flowers is my favorite part. It's almost therapeutic for me---

We went with an icecream bar (complete with way to many toppings) because icecream is Kelly's favorite dessert. You really can't go wrong with cold creamy goodness with fudge, caramel, strawberries, brownie bites and whipped cream on top!?

Anyways she was showered with love and congrats and it was great fun to be apart of such a special occasion!

^^^peonies are officially my favorite flower^^^

^^^the before and after...

 ^^^Barb tied small pieces of tule along a strand of white wired lights and we hung them from the island...it added the perfect touch of magic. So glad she took the time to make that!

 ^^^made this out of fabric...the dumb "A" and "I" kept moving...but you get the point right?!^^^

^^^These draperies were made similarly to the wedding backdrop my sister made last year
(found HERE)

 The future bride (middle) with Barb and I ^^^ and her sis and mama below

A shower for the little sis

A couple weeks ago, I threw a bridal shower for my baby sister Sadie. Well, she isn't so much a baby anymore but she is the youngest of us five girls.

Her colors were very fallish, with sort of an eclectic feel. I actually got the flowers from Costco and just separated the bouquets into different mason jars. We had a lot of desserts, from cheesecake and carmel apples...to yellow bundt cake with strawberries and whip cream. Oh, and of course pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, which happen to be my new favorite things EVER (it's kind of out of control, this new love I have for pumpkin anything...)

We played a "he said, she said" game, chatted, ate, chatted some more...and than called it a night.

It was such a fun time, showering little Sadie with bridal bliss. Actually, the wedding was just this last Friday...so many more pics to come!!!!

^^^ I put an index card in with the invite for people to write down their favorite recipe and bring it to the shower to give to Sadie...so she could add it to her recipe box :-)

^^^ have you tried these caramel apple milky ways?! Ummm, they're pretty darn delicious! 

***good thing they're seasonal

^^^ Sadie is OBSESSED with dogs...so I figured these napkins were a MUST

^^^cake stands I got at World Market

 ^^^ No, these are not garbonzo beans...they're actually little carmel that we melted for carmel apples

^^^me with two of my four hermanas (rachael in the middle...and the bride to be on the right)