Baby Shower for Sister, Continued...

Ok, there is more to this birdie baby shower than those cute invitations. I was determined to make as much of the decorations as possible, so I scribbled some things on a sheet of paper that vaguely resembled the masterpieces I had in my mind and quickly got to work. 274 trips to Walmart, Michaels and JoAnn Fabric later, I had everything I needed. Fabric, thread, ribbon, wooden dowels, cardstock, more fabric, iron-on adhesive sheets, hot glue, little white beans and some other random stuff I had in my house. From that craftful cornucopia, I made these:

Tissue paper poms poms that ended up looking more like Martha's than I was expecting. Success!

These turned out too cute. Paper trees incorporating the green pattern and brown polka dot fabric from the invitations. These were going to go around the centerpieces, which weeeeeere.....

Awesome branches that I fought through storms of mosquitoes and horse flies to gather out in the woods on the land HB's family owns. It was kind of hard to get a good picture of them without a solid background.

Then there were the sand-filled flower pots in which I stuck hand-swirled, thick gauged wire pokies (technical term) that held a beautiful assortment of my sister's family pictures and some moving quotes.

Up close look at the wire pokies. They were great.

And then my favorite creation of all. Mr. Squirrel. Mr. Squirrel was handmade and took forever, so in the effort to save time (since I was running out of it), I made his brother on the sewing machine. Um...didn't turn out so good. The birds I did on the machine were fine, but he...well...let's just say had strange proportions.

Needless to say my dining room/work room looks like a war zone...well of some sort. It doesn't seem like much but mixed with yummy catering and the perfect room, slap some white linens in there and it was good to go.