Victorian / Shabby Chic Baby Shower

I have the pleasure of hosting my sister in law's baby shower in October.  She loves the Victorian Area so I decided to go with a Victorian, Shabby Chic blend baby shower.  I have found so many great ideas out there to make this a delightful endeavor for her.  I hope you can get inspired as well!

I made some cute little signs for the party tables and the door.  This same design is on all the name tags and games.

This game is really cute.  Play songs that include the word "Baby" in the title, guest have to guess the song and the artist!

I added titles so everyone knew how they were associated with the baby!

I wanted little floral touches everywhere so I found these adorable cupcake toppers on etsy as well as the invitations!

For take home gifts, I am going to make home-made brown sugar scrub.  I love mason jars and plan on using them for both the favors and to serve drinks in!

The doilies add the perfect blend of rustic and elegant

For food think tea party - croissant sandwiches, petit fours, fruit, and chocolate!

My sis in law loves books, so I thought it would be fun to ask guest to bring a book to start the baby's library.

Here is inspiration for delightful shower!

Have guest leave a wish or a blessing for the baby!

Use a vintage suitcase to collect cards

Candyland

    What little kid does not LOVE candy!? Candyland was one of my favorite games growing up and my two little munchkins love playing the game even now.  Of course now its a little fancier, there is a DVD game (that's awesome!), a shape sorting game, and I think two different versions of the board game.

For my princess' 3rd birthday we wanted to make the game become life size.  We were (again) in upstate NY in the gym.  I took construction paper and covered the wall to make the game board and had stations with a game or challenge for each of the game areas; peppermint forest, lollipop woods, etc.  The kids favorite area was the candy buffet. I'm sure their parents loved that as well...hee, hee!

This party was such a hit! I've helped some friends put on their own Candyland party and I think I am going to do this theme for our High School Prom. (Yes, I am a high school teacher).

Here are some of the pictures from my party as well as some SWEET inspirations!

For a game the kiddos were to make their parent into a lollopop using streamers.  Here is my cute husband and my girlies!

The Chocolate Swamp!
Here are some other inspirations