Cate's Bloggy Baby Shower

Hello, guests. Come on in! I'm so glad you could make it for

Cate's Bloggy Baby Shower!
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A group of us bloggers put our heads together and came up with baby shower themed posts for our Australian friend, Cate, who is expecting a baby girl in June. Several of us made pages to be put into a collective scrapbook, and today we'll be sharing those, as well as some other random baby-bits of advice or stories of our own. You'll see links to the other blogs at the end of my post.

While baby showers are common in the US, I've learned that they are not so common in other countries. So today we'll just pretend that you are coming over to my house for a baby shower, and I'll share how that would be.

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Our patio would be decorated with pink and purple balloons and streamers as we welcome the baby shower guests. Would you like a glass of pink lemonade? Or perhaps a glass of wine? ;o) Grab yourself some snacks as well, and take a seat.

We'd talk with our guest of honor, Cate, about how she's feeling. How many more weeks do you have? Are you ready for this baby? Are your older kids excited for their new baby sister?

We'd play games for prizes! Maybe I would pass out paper and pens, and then set the timer for 60 seconds and we'd see how many baby items you could list in that time frame. "Anyone have more than 10 items listed?...Yes? Anyone more than 15..." until we determine the winner. There would be a prize for the winner - probably a candle or some nice smelling lotion or something like that.

There would be other games too, and more prizes, and of course cake - or maybe pink cupcakes for this occasion. After everyone is settled and has their cake, it would be time for Cate to open all the baby gifts. Carrie would be close by with a pad of paper and a pen - she always loves to write the list of gifts opened at showers. The list would go home with Cate so she can use it for thank you notes later on.

 

Packages would be unwrapped and there would be ooh's and aah's over the cute little baby stuff. Oh, and especially since they'd be baby girl clothes - SO cute and tiny and mostly pink. There would be practical gifts that would bring about comments like, "Oh, that's a great idea!" or "Wow, things have sure changed since I had Carrie."

There would be party favors for every guest - most likely some chocolates tied up in a pretty bag. And after we had spent a lovely couple of hours snacking and drinking and showering Cate with gifts and well wishes, we'd hug each other at the door as we said our good-byes.

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I hope you enjoyed your time at Cate's baby shower.

Now for more fun, you can click on the links below to see what others have done for Cate.

 

Two Quick Reminders

Reminder #1: Shoe Giveaway ~ really cute sandals but no international

shipping. You have until Tuesday, May 14th to enter - I'll

announce the winner on the 15th {cute pup not included}.

See more information here.

 

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Reminder #2: Cate's Baby Shower ~ May 29, 2013 ~ read the details here.
And remember, you don't need to make a scrapbook page to participate.
You can create a blog post with some baby advice, or a fun baby story or
share a photo. All are welcome!

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Cate's Bloggy-baby Shower

Our blog friend Cate {Life Behind the Purple Door}

is expecting a baby girl this summer, and I thought it

would be fun to do something special for her.

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Since Cate lives in Australia and I'm in the US, it would be a bit tricky {if not impossible} for me to host an actual baby shower in her honor. And since we have been blog friends for over three years now, it kind of makes more sense to do it the bloggy way.

You're all invited ~ and you don't necessarily have to have a blog to join in the fun!

There are a few different ways you can participate:

Create an 8"x 8" scrapbook page to be included in a scrapbook for Cate.

Photograph the layout and create a blog post to publish on Wednesday, May 29, 2013.

Link to my Bloggy-baby Shower blog post on that day and join the party!

(I will provide more specific details as that date gets closer.)

or

Create a baby-blog post to publish on May 29, 2013 and link to mine.

Your post should include something mommy-baby related.

Ideas include: helpful tips/advice, a game you've played at a

baby shower, baby photos of yourself or family members...

basically anything random and baby-ish.

or

If you don't have a blog but still want to create a layout for

Cate's scrapbook, you are more than welcome to do that as well.

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Scrapbook layout specifics ~ Are you ready for a challenge?

In order to have some sort of cohesiveness throughout

Cate's baby album, please use the following guidelines:

♥ The base must be a white, 8"x 8" piece of cardstock. You can use textured or flat, you can embellish it like crazy, but please start with white.

♥ Please leave space on your layout for a 4"x 6" photo that Cate can add later on.

♥ Cate loves the color purple {They don't call her PurpleCrazyMum for nothin'!} so please use purple in your layout, and feel free to incorporate other colors as you see fit. I'm planning to use pink and purple on mine.

♥ If you plan to use a specific theme {i.e. bath time, Daddy time, a nursery rhyme} please let me know before you begin designing your page. I will keep a list of specific page themes so that we don't end up with duplicate subject matters.

♥ When your layout is complete, mail it to me. I will gather all of the pages in a scrapbook to send to Cate. If you plan to do a blog post and link to my blog on the day of the shower {Wednesday, May 29}, photograph your layout before sending it my way. :o)

♥ Please RSVP for the bloggy-baby shower by leaving a comment on this post. Make sure that your comment provides a way for me to contact you {either by way of a link to your blog or an email address}.

I will remind you of this fun event over the course of the next five weeks, but until then, I will leave you to your creative thinking process!

I've tried to cover all the bases, but I'm sure there's something I've left out!

Please leave a comment and let me know if you have any questions,

and also let me know if you plan to "attend" Cate's Bloggy-baby shower.

Ooooh...I'm so excited for us to do this for Cate!

Hooray for baby girls!

{and blog-friend-moms!}

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PS: My email address is djturtle {at} cox {dot} net if you need to contact me. :o)