Baby Shower for Sister

My sister is about to have baby #2. Another boy who will for sure be as adorable and well-behaved as the first. When she had her first son, I was in my second to final semester of college as a freshly turned 21-year-old (I was a bit determined to get out) and was not in the most settled year of my life to plan a baby shower. Good thing the job wasn't mine then because I don't think I would have done a good job. But another good thing is that this second baby is coming four years after and I was not going to drop the ball on this one.

I have recently reconnected with all the greater things in life...a.k.a my sewing machine, hot glue, an excellent pair of scissors and hordes of beautiful fabric. I wanted to make this baby shower as homemade as possible, because what could be better.

In my research of all things baby shower, I came across the bird/nest theme. I love the birds but I'm not big on super "baby" baby showers. I don't want toy cribs all over the place or baby blue confetti baby faces all over the tables. Yuck. So I wanted to take "baby" and make it beautiful. Like my sister. Like my new nephew will certainly be when he makes his first appearance in a few weeks.

So, obviously, I started with the invitations...

I bought four different lovely fabrics that were blue, green and brown in nature but were not of infant pattern, per se. Really the only fabric that could be construed as baby-esque would be the yellow/cream one that does actually have a pattern made up of baby animals. But cool baby animals. Not lame ones. So I cut out a bunch of bird shapes with wings of an alternate fabric...

Affixed said birdies to lovely sage green note cards that I picked up from Swoozies, which happens to be going out of business :( so I got them on sale. I found some fun free fonts online and printed the actual invitations myself which saved me some cash monies and turned out just as great had I done them professionally.


In the end, there were six different invitations, so there was a fun variety. And if you can't see, it says "Hatching soon...Baby Becker." I was in love with these invitations...still am, basically. From what I heard, they were well received. I was definitely inspired and off to a good start. And yes, there is more to come on this one...