Halloween Bliss

My sister was asking about my Halloween decorations while at the baby shower.  She thought all my Fall things were Halloween.  This post is for her.

I almost didn't get my Halloween stuff out this year due to the shower.  I was over decorating, but I CAN'T miss Halloween.  Here's what I rushed out on Tuesday.

Console Table

 Console close up

 Wall shelf

Wall shelf close up

Fireplace

Side table

Side shelf

Witch wreath

FREE Baby Shower Printables

Baby Shower - Freebies

Here are some of the cool "free printable" Nautical baby shower themed items I have found online.  Some I have modified for my own use or created myself.

I Photoshoped using a free chalkboard background and chalkboard fonts, creating this SIGNAGE  for the baby shower reminding guest to sign the wishes and advice cards.

FREE -  Wishes Chalkboard pdf (by. S. Clark)

FREE Aqua & Blue "Don't Say Baby" game printable (by S. Clark)

Using Photoshop, I created these Nautical themed Tic Tac Thank You Labels - here are blank ones for you to download, add your own name and date.

The upside down portion reads:Thank you for sharing this special day with us!

Check out ClipArtBest.com, they have a many popular trendy themes for Diaper Raffles tickets.  I downloaded their Dipper Raffle Ticket, modified it in Photoshop to make the food labels.

 Catch of the Day pdf (by S. Clark)

Fish & Chips pdf (by S. Clark)

Diaper Raffles tickets - by ClipArtBest.com

ONLINE FINDS (Again - FREE for you to use):

Ian and Lola - Free Nautical Party

I used Ian and Nola's "menu tents" to make Book raffle tickets

 Red & Blue - I simply inserted the mmodified images into a Word document and printed.

My Sister's Suitcase has very creative food label printables

Free Invitation Template from Printabell - fill in the information and she will email you the file.I modified my file in Photoshop to add some extra information it required.  I also added the whales, ship wheel and sail boat images.  She  carry's quite a few themes on her site.

For Olivia's Baby Shower Keepsake book I found a large selection, of FREE Wishes for Baby and Advice for mommy printable cards on Shower of Fun.com.  I used a combination of both the Whale and Boat themes.

The Shower of Fun site has several free Baby Shower Printables, such as Invitations, Guest Sign In (animals holding balloons), Bring Books request, Diaper Raffle tickets and Thank You tags.  If you are trying to do a shower on the cheap, check them out.

                               

                               

The only thing I was not able to find online for free (or wanted to make myself) was a the Gift List.  I paid $1.35 for one from Studio20Designs off of Etsy.com.

Aqua & Blue "Don't Say Baby" game printable

Free printable Baby Shower Games at Babyshowerideas4u.com. I used this free one here.

Water bottle labels from Pinterest.

See this post for Shower photos.

Nautical Baby Shower

See this post for free printable's used at this party.

People online are so clever. I combined some of my favorite online Nautical themed parties ideas together for my daughters Baby Shower.  Having seen so many images online, I was so glad my table turned out the way I envisioned it.

Table set up

Onsie's Clothes line

Water bottles

My husbands very favorite thing was the Fish & Chips, which I didn't a good photo of.

Similar to the catch of the day, but with ridge potato chips and goldfish (fish & chips)

Lifesaver cutlery and "Catch of the Day" party mix

Cookies favours and shower cake by - Cakes by Jen

Thank you cookies

Diaper Cake - the painted wood "painted shapes"are from Hobby Lobby

Tissue paper pom poms

Wishes & advice cards, and game signage - I moved this to another corner during the shower.

Whale art - guest sign in

 Lighthouses: IKEA Rotara tea light lantern and upside down Kardemumma planter - I used red washi tape for the trim.  

We gave out black Rotara lanterns as the game prizes.

Goldfish crackers and pretzels in an apothecary jar

 The "Mom to Be"

Opening Gifts - oops we forgot to play Gift Bingo

My husband didn't leave his phone with me like I asked, so I have to wait for photos from family for the actual shower actvities.

 Wreath - I used 2  colours of Dollarstore faux "Jute" and twine, along with chipboard letters and a wooden anchor from Hobby Lobby.

Birch Boat

Tic Tac Thank You's

All my babies

Lovin' the family

Having fun with the "Guess that Poo" game

More wine?

 Aunties (above and below + 1 friend)

A whole lot of onsies 

 Great "Nana to be"