Last weekend I threw a baby shower for some very good
friends of mine. (I’ve been meaning to
blog about this all week. Hee hee!) So
my friend Winnie really detests baby showers. She hates the stupid games. She
hates the hours of unwrapping gifts punctuated with a million, “Awww!”s. She kind of hates the whole she-bang. (Which I find ironic considering she has a pug blog. I keep waiting for the day she designs her
own LOLpugs.) Winnie is the kind of gal
to buy you an extra nice gift so she can get out of going to your horrid baby
shower.
She also has a great, quirky sense of humor. (yay!)
Of course, I jumped at the chance of throwing her a shower. (Not that that’s a big stretch since I’m the
unofficial event organizer of our group.) Winnie had some requests/ideas to make the shower less traditional,
including, 1) coed (which we did); 2) no games (ditto – I think a lot of them
are dumb, too); 3) pancake restaurant (rocking!); and 4) placenta recipe cards
as part of the favors! (Um, me and her
other friend nixed that one. Although
potentially hilarious (because it was that kind of group), her mom was going to
be there.)
But in that spirit these developed…
Penny!). Peach jello to be exact. Cherry and Strawberry were a tad too
graphic. And I heard the peach jello was
quite delicious, as folks dug into them after our meal. Here’s a closer look (because I know you want
to).
We also put together a baby survival kit (which included
booze, of course) and had a lot of fun with graphics of sausage and waffles
(she’s having a boy). So how did my
friend Winnie, hater-of-showers, react to the end result?
Quote: “That was the least
insufferable shower I’ve ever been to!”
Rock on! – the weirdgirl
Thanks for the great baby shower Mary!
I thought of another obnoxious concept for any other mothers-to-be out there. A Princess Cake, but instead of the traditional green marzipan, make it flesh colored marzipan with an “outtie” belly button on top.
And I’m still waiting for my placenta recipe cards.
That picture above? Seriously. You’re my hero. H-E-R-O.
You’re welcome, Winnie! (And I’ll be sure to pass your preggo belly cake to AJ’s Bakery.) If you follow the link above there are some scrumptious placenta recipes just waiting for you!
Awww, Riley! It’s nice to be someone’s hero! You would have fit in great at the shower. Thanks!
I swear I can see a fetus in that jello!!
Ok. That is the coolest baby shower (favor? food? don’t know what word I’m looking for here) ever.
It is now, after reading this, that I will begin praying for any of my friends to now get pregnant so I can jump on the throwing of a shower and doing this! This is spectacular!
I knew that cake was too cute for the weird friend. So should the top of the cake be a see-thru dome with a fetus?
OMG- That was cool and sick all at the same time! I loved it!
It sounds like a great time, it must’ve been a bit strange eating that jelly though. I guess the great thing is that it’s an experience that many of the women won’t forget. Creating memories that stick is quite difficult but quite a skill.