{"id":3941,"date":"2013-03-04T23:17:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T06:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2013-03-04T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T06:24:00","slug":"crafty-tuesday-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3941","title":{"rendered":"Crafty Tuesday – of sorts."},"content":{"rendered":"

I cannot even tell you how very disappointed I am with myself. Not just that I have been promising all kinds of posts and photos to you all and haven’t delivered nary a one, \u00a0but when I finally downloaded my camera this weekend, I realized I don’t even have any real photos of the project that has consumed-our-every-minute-for-the-past-month!<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Only phone camera photos. I know. I am a bitter, bitter disappointment.<\/p>\n

So I am going to try to find some t-shirts at the ballet studio tomorrow and snap proper photos of them before I resort to these crappy phone camera shots. So, I guess, a little more waiting on that project.<\/p>\n

Of course it has been so crazy around here that Peter Pan was so-three-projects ago<\/strong><\/em>! We are on to many other goodies, including throwing a baby shower for JB and the new baby V and all of her LA peeps. It was very fun to plan and execute – I just wish I wasn’t so crazy throughout all of it, that would have made it even more enjoyable, I think.<\/p>\n

The theme was children’s books – so I stole an idea (thank you for the millionth time, Pinterest!) to do the invites as library cards, complete with little library card pockets. I just took manila folders and made the pockets, designed the cards (invites) in Illustrator and printed them out.<\/p>\n

\"photo6\"<\/a>(Yes, more phone photos, you all are going to disown me aren’t you??)<\/p>\n

\"photo7\"<\/a>And since we asked everyone to bring a book, on the back of the invite we listed the books that JB already had – we didn’t get any repeats!<\/p>\n

\"photo8\"<\/a>The nursery is going to be pink & orange – so we used those colors for the decor…<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0579\"<\/a>So thankful it was a gorgeous day, perfect for an outdoor brunch & baby shower. We decorated with children’s books and a few special gifts. I made her this bunting for the nursery, which also includes all of the fabrics that will be in her baby blanket. (THAT…well, that we still have 8 weeks to finish! It will get done…)<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0575\"<\/a>And the lovely Erin made these incredible onesies for the baby that we clothes-lined up for a little more decor. I didn’t get a good closeup of them, but I’m sure Erin will feature them over on her blog (Practically Martha<\/a>)\u00a0at some point!<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0574\"<\/a>And then I manipulated all kinds of kid’s books to fit our menu. We did a brunch – light lunch – tea nibbles kind of party. By request we had Amelia Bedelia’s Vanilla Scones…<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0568\"<\/a>Peter Rabbit’s Garden Salad…<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0564\"<\/a>Jamberry’s Berry Salad…<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0562\"<\/a>Stinky Cheese Man’s Cheese Plate…<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0565\"<\/a>Petunia Pepper’s Tea Sandwiches…(Petunia is the character of the children’s book that JB is going to write someday!)<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0561\"<\/a>The Cat in the Hat Cheese Hats, Madeline’s French Toast…and of course, If you Give A Cat A Cupcake – Cupcakes!<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0570\"<\/a>It was totally fun and turned out lovely.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0558\"<\/a>I was so thankful to my co-hostesses and our honorary co-hostess, Addie! She was my side-kick all morning and was ever so helpful. I’m grateful to have such a creative (and fancy!) girl!<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0572\"<\/a>And now we just sit and wait and let little Baby V. cook some more… And Aunt JB is doing a fine job in that area.\"DSC_0591\"<\/a><\/p>\n

AGAIN, totally disgusted with my photo-taking abilities this month. If you could see her face, she is positively glowing and beautifully pregnant, we will get a better photo of the girls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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