Ahoy it's a Baby Shower

For the past few months I have been planning a friend's baby shower, along side her mom. Event planning is my career choice, but paper crafting is something I really enjoy doing. So for me they go hand-in-hand.

When we were planning this I consulted my friend on a theme, but she didn't really have one in mind. However she did give me some ideas of what she wanted. Mostly she just wanted a themed party (since she is having a boy) with different shades of blue. I thought about incorporating some blue camo into the mix, since she is sort of into camo. But it just never worked out. I decided to put the theme aside for a little bit and focus on the rest of the party, mainly the menu and the games.

About a month before the party her mom made up an evite and sent that out to the guests. On the evite she had used a sailboat and the word ahoy. I thought that would be perfect for a theme. I decided to then go with that.

Everything at the party really came together in the end, it looked great and the ladies really seemed to enjoy it.

I made a sailboat garland with the baby's name on some of the boats. Now my friend has some decoration she can use for the baby's room.

My friend wanted her guests to write a message on some diapers for her, which I thought was a cute idea. I made up a sign and put it on the front of a blue basket, which her mom had, with the diapers inside. On the side I took two stacks of diapers tied blueish/grey twine around them and tied stars on the ends.

This is a diaper tower a couple of our friends put together for the mommy and her baby boy! How cute!!

I love these little tags I made to write down the different foods and drinks. They were really easy  to make and came in handy.

After the party it was time to set sail and head home. It was a fun experience putting together this celebration for my friend and her baby boy (who I cannot wait to meet).

I want to give a thank you to her mom and to her for allowing me to be apart of this celebration and allowing me to help plan it.  Thank you ladies!! I had fun doing it.

*Shine like Glitter*
I know I normally do this section title in green (since it's my favorite color) but I thought for this post it should be blue *wink* 
Just like any party you never know how they are going to turn out. You don't know if they are going to be good or if they are going to have times when you think to yourself "what do I do now?"
I had a couple of times like that, but I just took a deep breath, consulted a friend and moved on!
I think the party turned out well. Her mom told me I did a good job. A lot of people thanked me. And it just boosted my confidence.
A big thank you everyone who came to Tiffany's baby shower to help her celebrate!!