Baby Shower

DD#2 and I hosted a baby shower at my house on Saturday. It was a Disney Princess/tea party themed shower. The expectant mother is one of my "adopted" kids, not really adopted, but one of the family nevertheless. 

There was savory food.

And lots of sweets.

Cold drinks here, and hot drinks elsewhere because of course there were multiple types of tea! 

Here's a close of of the diaper cake my sister made! Isn't that awesome?

We had an area with baby safe paints and blocks for people to decorate, we played a couple games outside as well. 

We even had a photo booth for the social media posts. 

It was getting warm outside so we had planned to open gifts inside. Here's the guest of honor opening a teddy bear made by my mother for the baby.

And here she is opening up the baby quilt I made from leftovers of her wedding quilt. It made her cry, which wasn't my intention, but this baby was a long time coming and I think seeing parts of her wedding quilt in there, really made the long journey hit home. 

Don't forget to grab a shower favor on the way out! 

Now that the shower is over, Easter is coming right up, but DD#2 is hosting that! 

I have gotten some sewing in. I'm about 3/4 of the way done quilting that scooter quilt. I've also started sewing around the scooter appliques for the 400 luggage tags I'm making. I'm not sure how long it's going to take to get that many luggage tags done. Quilting the scooter quilt is the first FMQ I've done in months, and applique isn't something I do often, so I'm not particularly quick at it. Now that I can start getting into a routine again, I'm planning to FMQ an hour each day on my Janome, then work on luggage tags on the Bernina, and if I get to where I really need some piecing time, I'll switch to my Singer 201 and piece on it. It may sound crazy to have three machines set up to sew at all times, but for me, it works.