A few weeks ago, my sweet girl friends threw Silas and me a baby shower. Orange and turquoise, lots of cupcakes, orange ranunculus, and my favorite– Papa …
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About 100 men and women attended the free Community Baby Shower on Tuesday night at the William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, anxious to see what’s new in the world of newborns and parenting, but they were unable to get a glimpse of the Dr. Frederick S. Eadie Birthing Center.
the center was closed off for the night.
“It was a little too busy in the center for tours,” said Laurie Ferendo, the birthing center‘s unit coordinator. “We had six in labor when I came down” before the baby shower.
Ferendo said all 17 rooms were filled prior to the start of Tuesday’s event, so for safety and privacy, they decided to hold off on tours. anyone planning to give birth at Backus can request a tour at a later date.
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however, the event did offer information about community and hospital resources such as infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation, childbirth education classes, car seat safety, mothers groups and baby swimming classes.
Many expectant parents lined up about 20 minutes early for the event, including Kylie Hirst and her fiancé, Kevin Collier, both of Griswold. Hirst is due in July with the couple’s first child. Collier said he was hoping to get some current information about the world of newborns and parenting.
“this is my second child. I have a 16-year-old,” Collier said. “so it’s been awhile.”
another first-time mother, Holly Gorman, of Preston, said she wandered in after helping carry some things in for the baby shower.
“My mom-in-law works here … and I saw some of the samples,” said Gorman, who is due in October. “but I’m sure there’s a lot of stuff that’s new that I don’t know about.”
Community organizations such as Bubbles to Butterfly Swim School and United Children & Family Services staffed booths and handed out educational material as well as free items.
About 100 men and women attended the free Community Baby Shower on Tuesday night at the William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, anxious to see what’s new in the world of newborns and parenting, but they were unable to get a glimpse of the Dr. Frederick S. Eadie Birthing Center. the center was closed off for the night. “It was a little too busy in the center for tours,” said Laurie Ferendo, the birthing center‘s unit coordinator. “We had six in labor when I came down” before the baby shower. Ferendo said all 17 rooms were filled prior to the start of Tuesday’s event, so for safety and privacy, they decided to hold off on tours. anyone planning to give birth at Backus can request a tour at a later date. Community resources however, the event did offer information about community and hospital resources such as infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation, childbirth education classes, car seat safety, mothers groups and baby swimming classes. Many expectant parents lined up about 20 minutes early for the event, including Kylie Hirst and her fiancé, Kevin Collier, both of Griswold. Hirst is due in July with the couple’s first child. Collier said he was hoping to get some current information about the world of newborns and parenting. “this is my second child. I have a 16-year-old,” Collier said. “so it’s been awhile.” another first-time mother, Holly Gorman, of Preston, said she wandered in after helping carry some things in for the baby shower. “My mom-in-law works here … and I saw some of the samples,” said Gorman, who is due in October. “but I’m sure there’s a lot of stuff that’s new that I don’t know about.” Community organizations such as Bubbles to Butterfly Swim School and United Children & Family Services staffed booths and handed out educational material as well as free items.
Jessica Simpson has shared footage of her lavish baby shower with fans.
The 31-year-old singer – who is due to give birth to her first baby with fiancé Eric Johnson imminently – uploaded a video and pictures of last month’s lavish baby shower to her website Jessicasimpson.com, which showed her receiving gifts from family and celebrity friends.
Guests at the party included mother-of-two Jessica Alba, who brought her youngest daughter Haven, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star Ellen Pompeo and Jessica’s sister Ashlee, who was accompanied by her son Bronx, three.
Captioning a picture of herself with her adorable nephew, Jessica – who is expecting a girl – wrote: ”I can’t wait until Bronx meets his new cousin.”
A source us Weekly magazine: ”It was a kid friendly shower with many of her friends bringing babies. She received tons of gifts mostly wrapped in pink gift wrap and boxes. there were several books, stuffed toys and clothes among other items.”
The 50 guests were treated to an extravagant buffet featuring Jessica’s favorite Southern foods – including fried Oreos and Twinkies at the event which was organized by celebrity event planner Mindy Weiss and inspired by the children’s story ‘Charlotte’s Web’.
Singer, actress and fashion-designer Jessica also revealed creating a family is her greatest achievement.
She wrote:”Creating a family is the best thing I’ve done in my life, I really hope I can be half as good of a mom as my mom has been to me.”
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Invitations set the theme for any event whether it is a dinner party, baby shower, or wedding. I recently have been working on planning a baby shower for a good friend and she saw pennant invitations that she loved. they suit her style perfectly, and I really wanted to give her what she wanted and run with it to set the tone for the big celebration welcoming her baby girl. Pennant invitations are not hard to come by when you search sites like Etsy as they’ve been trending for a while now, but they also can run about $2.50 per invite and considering we needed about 60 invites, that wasn’t the route I wanted to take. Besides that, I really love creating invitations and so it was only natural that I would make them myself. While they took me a while because of the quantities I was producing, the process is really quite simple and for a smaller group of a dozen or so they’d be really easy to whip up in no time.
1. create your base invite with the text on it including all the pertinent information for the event using either a word processing program or by hand writing them on pre-cut card stock. I created mine using Inkscape (a program similar to Adobe Illustrator) and then sent the image to my local printer who printed them two per page and set to 5 inches by 7 inches. if you have a high quality printer at home, you should be able to easily print them yourself. be sure to leave about two inches blank between the top of the text and the top of the paper.
Photo Credit: Sarah Fernandez/Chateau & Bungalow
Photo Credit: Sarah Fernandez/Chateau & Bungalow
2. Take a 1/8″ hole punch and make a hole 1/4″ of the way down from the top of the invite and about 1/8″ from the edge of the invite. Use the hole punch to make a second hole 1/8″ away from the first hole on the side closer to the center of the invitation. Repeat on the opposite edge of the invite.
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3. Take twine and thread it through the hole closest to the edge moving from the front of the invite to the back of the invite and then back to the front and across the invite to the second set of hole punches where you’ll repeat the process of threading the twine through the hole to the back and finally through to the front a final time. Leave about 2 inches of twine hanging on each side of the invite.
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Photo Credit: Sarah Fernandez/Chateau & Bungalow
4. Tie the twine off by taking the loose ends and threading it up and under the center section of twine and then back through the hole until it’s tight. Doing it this way will ensure that your twine ends are facing downwards instead of flying upwards and looking unruly.
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5. next, select your decorative paper designs and cut your paper lengthwise into 1 inch strips.
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6. Starting in the corner of your paper, cut the paper at a 45 degree angle to the opposite side of the paper.
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7. Fold the triangle point that you’ve created up to the top side of the paper and fold to create a folded triangle.
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8. cut the paper along the line of the new folded triangle. Repeat this step as many times as need to get the desired number of pennants in the desired number of patterns. I used three different paper patterns to get three approximately 1 inch pennants across my 5 inch wide invitation.
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9. Place a glue dot on one side of the inside of the pennant and hang the pennant on the line of twine. Press the front and back of the pennant together to secure them. they will slide a little bit from side to side, but that just adds to the charm of them.
Send them off in the mail, and you’ll be sure to have a very happy group of guests excited to come to your event!
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The shower, which includes classes and demonstrations, is designed to assist new parents or soon-to-be parents with the best information for having and raising a happy and healthy child. And just like a real baby shower, there will be gifts and door …
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baby shower! on Saturday my younger sister (Sarah), my mom and I threw a shower for my older sister (Jennifer) who is expecting her first baby this summer.
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question : What are good ways to give many baby books as a gift for baby shower I want to find a good way to give more books as a gift for a friend’s baby shower. I did not want to wrap because the final product would look awkward since the books are different sizes. Can anyone help me? thanks in advance 
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I Haz a bucket! 2G’s2B I know you said you do not want to wrap them, but maybe wrap them all alone with different papers, then stacked the largest to the smallest one small piece of tape between the string and bow around it and maybe a link or a plush PACCY on top? its the first thing I could think of more of a fancy gift bag.
What do you think? Answer below! 
Stack them according to size and tie them up with a really pretty, thick ribbon and bow on top.