Baby Shower Invitations

Last Sunday I had the honour of attending my good friend's baby shower. 

She's due early next month and, although she looks beautiful and content, she is ready to get that baby moving (her poor swollen feet & ankles)! 

She, along with another friend who just gave birth to her daughter this week, have made me keenly aware that my group of friends has started the move from bridal showers, bachelorette parties, and weddings, to pregnancies and baby showers. 

Inspired by a template I came across, I decided to mock up some baby shower invitations for anyone thinking about hosting a baby shower. 

I had so much fun creating my wedding RSVP cards and I wanted to create something else.

Keep in mind these are incredibly tailored to my personal preferences (I love old school Winnie and also books). If you have an idea in mind I highly recommend you do what I did: find a template or an image that you like, open it in Picmonkey and edit away!

But if you like either of my invite templates feel free to save the image, open them in Picmonkey or any other photo editing site you like, and add in the missing details like the mom-to-be's name and the party details. 

1. The template that got me thinking about baby shower invitations

Martha Stewart Baby Book Shower Template 

(with matching book mark template!)

2. Winnie the Pooh

3. A Book Shower

Valentine's Day Round-Up

Valentine's Day is one of those polarizing holidays that people either love or detest.

Personally I love it. But I love any reason to celebrate.

While I understand (and support) the "you should treat every day like Valentine's day" argument, you better actually be doing romantic things on the reg to back up your argument.

But since I love to celebrate, I've rounded up 5 of my current favourite Valentine DIY ideas.

Let me know if you have some good ideas of your own!

1. Black, White & Glittered Valentine's Day card

The card is simple and elegant. I'd follow the Style Me Pretty lead and glitter my hearts in gold either by gluing then glittering them or by tracing them with glitter pens.

Then be sure to print out the envelope liner below to jazz up the way you present your card.

(The link for the card is here)

(You can open the link for the envelope liner here)

2. Rose Body Scrub

If you're looking for a DIY Valentine's Day gift I recommend this rose body scrub from Oh So Pretty.

You can follow the step by step instructions on the website here. Just go out and grab yourself some coarse & fine sea salt, rose essential oil & jojoba oil.

3. Less Mushy, More Silly

Because sometimes "There's no one else I'd rather lay in bed & look at my phone with" is way more accurate and heart felt than anything else.

The PDFs can be printed here

4. For the Book Lover

This is such a cute idea.

Follow the DIY valentine's day dust jacket tutorial over at Juniper Books here.

5. Talk Cake to Me

 

The idea comes from All You and can be found here

I love the different use for he conversation hearts and might make a few individual cakes like this.  

What are your thoughts on Valentine's  Day?

Last Minute Christmas Printables (and ice storm 2013 pictures)

It's Christmas Eve!

Our beautiful city was pummelled by an ice storm over the weekend and many people are still without power (including my parents).

We've been lucky and haven't been without power & heat but my parent's have been wrapping themselves in blankets upon blankets to stay warm since Sunday morning. 

I finally convinced my mom to come over yesterday for a shower and dinner but I haven't been able to talk them into sleeping here yet. 

Hopefully tonight.

Freezing rain and high winds caused a lot of trees to snap and pull down power lines all across the city. Roads and walkways were turned into skating rinks seemingly overnight.

Driving home on Sunday morning we saw a lot of the damage first hand:

This is the dog park we frequent. John took the dog but wisely didn't stay long as the trees were making ominous creaking noises and the possibility of having large branches come crashing down was too great.

This was a common sight on the roads.

But despite the destruction and danger, the ice has actually been quite pretty. 

I snapped this picture of John last night on our walk back to the apartment.

As a result of the lack of power we're switching up our Christmas Eve tradition this year (also cause my dad is working) which, as a big fan of traditions, I find really sucks. But I'm sure tonight will still be as magical as every other year.

Christmas Eve is hands down my favourite day of the year. 

Hopefully everyone is finished their shopping.

If you're struggling for some last minute gifts you could whip up some bacon jam, knit mittens (that post to come), or bake a batch of Christmas cookies (with Bailey's icing on those snowflakes)

And if you're wrapping up your gifts, why not print out and use these adorable rustic gift tags? I've been using the gift tag templates found HERE or you could use the tags found  HERE

If you're throwing a party why not make some props for people to take photos with?

Simply save and print this image to size, cut out and attach to sticks.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE EVERYONE! 

Meal Planning Made Easy

I stumbed upon this tumblr called 'Pretty Little Pieces' and fell in love with all of the pictures and printable ideas.

 

This one I thought I'd share, as I'm aways trying to organize my life.

 

Meal Planning Sheets

 

 

The only downside is that there's only room for 4 meals, then you've got to print out another.

But 4 meals is probably as far in advance as I'd get in terms of planning & shopping.

 

Photo and PDF courtesy of prettylittlepieces.tumblr.com