Table before food:

I made all of the treats except for the strawberry malted milk balls:

Since the theme was a new princess is on the way, I found a castle at the TS to use as a CP!! The rose arrangement in the urn is also TS.

I made the brownie pops and covered them with pink candy melts, and added the polka dots with hot pink gel from Dollar Tree.

The plates, cups, napkins, invites, wall mural, baby girl letter garland, pink rattles, pink rubber duckies, pink cupcake & mini cheesecake liners, teddy bear picks in the cupcakes, strawberry malted milk balls, and pink pillar candles also all came from Doll. Tree. The urn holding the forks is a TS find. the silver platters, and pink cake plate are heirloom. The white scalloped plate is TS.

For the invites, I printed my own information, cut it out with fancy edge scissors, pasted it in the center of the invite, cut a sheer pink parchment cover to put over the top, punched 2 holes and threaded a pink polka dot ribbon through both of them.

I found the drink dispenser on clearance at Ross.

The tray for the drinks came from SA for 90c, and the silver sugar dish is a 41 yr. old wedding present.

The pink plates and the holder came from HL several years ago. It is holding the white chocolate covered strawberries.

The menu was strawberry cupcakes, white choc. dipped strawberries, mini cherry cheesecakes, pink dipped brownie bites, and strawberry malted milk balls. I didn't make the malted milk balls.

We played the guess the candy bar / dirty diaper game and my DGD (on the right) and a distant cousin were totally grossed out by the diapers.

The sign came from a TS, and my oldest DD was very jealous that the "new" princess is getting the sign, and not the 5 yr old!! Unfortunately, since it was a TS find, its not like I can go buy another one! There is a "toad" at the bottom of the sign. The pacifiers on the candle holders were also from DT.

Now that the shower is over, I will have some more time to visit here!!

TTFN,
Candy

jane

Jane, it was a special day and besides being too hot to host it in the sunroom, everything went very smoothly. I had to move the setting inside where it is air conditioned as it was in the mid 90's outside so even with fans running, the sunroom was in the high 80's.
It took a couple of different trips and a few TS's but I found a castle that was the right size for what I wanted, so it really set up the princess theme. The pink tiara on the brownie bite holder was a DT find that I just wrapped around the top of the tiered holder and paper clipped in place.
I have 2 pretty special daughters too, so we have a good time together.

Thanks for the compliments.

TTFN,
Candy

Congratulations on the upcoming baby girl!
hugs, Karen

Luvs

Marlene, this will make the DGK count at 10, 6 girls and 4 boys. Our oldest DGD just graduated from HS this past June and now we will have a brand new one, so quite a stair step range on the ages.

Karen, I am not much of a game person, but DD requested the diaper game, so I had to honor her request. It turned out to really be a lot of fun with all of the adults laughing hysterically and as the picture shows, grossing out the little ones!!

Luvs, thank you! I was very excited to find the castle as it was just what I had been looking for and the alternative was a $20 pinata from Target that was much larger and not as cute.
Also, all of the items that came from Doll. Tree really helped out on the budget. I was amazed to find the baking section in one of the larger stores and then to find the pink cupcake and the pink mini cupcake liners!! Score!! They didn't even have them in the baking section at Jo*Ann's. Just the pastel assorted ones, no solid color choices at all!
I really like the strawberries, the only drawback is they can't be made too far in advance.

Kathleen, clever pun!! Thank you for the prayers. Can't have too many of those.

Now we are working on the nursery, getting everything ready. The bassinet is the one I used for both my daughters, so that is very special to me. 4 of my 5 DGK's will have used it. The oldest DGS was born in Fla. so he was the only one not to use it. (The other 5 DGK's are my DH's)

Thanks everybody.
Candy

Love how you used 'something old, something new, something borrowed, something blu...I mean, PINK!' Everything is just so fit for a 'princess!' You did GREAT...& everything looks so yummy! I also am loving that drink dispenser! That will be such a asset for so many get-tog's in the future! Hugs to you & your DD & that soon-to-be GD! TFS your day! Jeanne S.

Punk