As I wrote in my last post, my best friend Leslie and my mom (with lots of help from my sisters!) threw me a baby shower a few days ago. You may remember that we’re doing a beach cottage theme for the nursery. The ladies used the beach theme, combined with the middle of December shower date to throw a beautiful event, which I’m calling “Winter By the Sea.”
When you walk into the main part of my parent’s house, where the shower was held, you see the dining room table. The ladies made this lovely centerpiece out of branches spray painted white and blue sparkly sprigs stuck in a tall vase with artificial snow. And to add that beach feel, they set out starfish, blue stars, and seas shells. Lovely!
And then as you can see, there was quite the blue and white candy bar. It always amazes me how versatile clear vases and white serving dishes can be! Some blue confetti, white votives, and seashells spray painted silver finished off the look.
The ladies served a light dinner of salad with walnuts and blueberries, delicious artichoke dip served with blue corn chips (seeing a color theme here), and then white pizza served on these pretty silver plates.
And to drink? Beer and wine, and an assortment of blue beverages: water, Blueberry Izze, Blue Raspberry lemonade Jones Soda, and a blue Cream Soda. It all looked so pretty in this big silver tub.
All around the house there were little touches. Like this crystal bowl that held blue and silver christmas ornaments, shells, and starfish:
And this one, too:
And this garland that hung over the door into the house:
Then, of course, there the shower gifts! My friends and family were very generous and we now have the beginnings of a stockpile of baby clothes, blankets, and the sort! Thank you everyone!!! Now…we just need to finish the nursery so we have a place to put it all!
After opening the gifts, I prepared to cut into this adorable little cake.
Funny story: because we got married in such a small town, I decided that rather than have a local baker attempt to do a fancy wedding cake, I’d just ask them to make four individual white cakes, and then garnish them with sunflowers (our flower of the day). I loved the way the turned out, but my mom has never let me live down the fact that I did not have a tiered wedding cake. So, she had this cake made, and, of course, it was two tiers. 
Here’s a pic of me with a few of my friends from high school (the blond on the far left is Leslie, who was responsible for putting it all together).
It was a wonderful evening filled with family and friends. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to kick off the holidays! And a huge thanks to my mom, my best friend Leslie, and their assistants Caroline and Sydney for putting it all together, and also a thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the impending arrival of Seamonkey and Pollywog!
