mandy's baby shower!

my best friend, mandy, is having a sweet baby girl...madeline grace!!! i am so excited about it...planning this shower was so much fun for me, especially after having a boy...all the pink, pink, pink...everything i did for the shower, i wanted her to be able to reuse in the nursery...her colors are a very pale pink with accents of light spring green and cream...i can't tell you how many cans of spray paint i used...but the whole event turned out wonderful...and it was so fun working with the other hostesses...mandy is definitely worth it!

the flowers were from tipton hurst and turned out beautiful!

i made little food labels with sweet little birdies on them...the bird cages i found at hobby lobby but they were an awful color...so i painted them and added fun ribbon to the top...mandy placed them on top of madeline's bookcase in her room afterward...

i spray painted these branches and all of the stones in the bottom of the vase...i originally planned on hanging sweet baby socks from the branches with clothespins but i thought they good without them...

these buckets were royal blue...once again, spray paint came in handy! then i stencilled madeline's initials on each one...i added a bow on the side of it...when she gets older, she can wear the bows in her hair or on little knit caps...

i absolutely love how these turned out...i bought eight different styled frames from hobby lobby to fill with mandy and michael's baby pictures...i sprayed mandy's pink and michael's cream...then we placed them on the fireplace!

my good friend and drew's mother, shea...we drove down from fayetteville that morning and back, so we had a great time chit chatting

shea, mary lee and me

mandy arriving at her shower!

mandy with mary lee

my mom surprised mandy and i when she walked in the door...she had told me that she already had plans, which she couldn't break...so i was totally shocked and excited that she made it...it meant so much to me and to mandy!!!

mom and i

mandy and her mom, tracy or tiki as madeline will call her

opening so many fabulous presents!

the hostesses...

we had such a great time, and i know we all can't wait to meet sweet baby madeline grace!