Got Milk? Baby Shower 2

I realized...finally...that it is OKAY to recycle your own party ideas.  I mean, if you have the decorations and concept, why not, right?

 In this case my friend Megan was having her 2nd baby girl, and felt like she didn't really need any gifts so we settled on a very intimate group of people with some dang cute decor and eats.

I incorporated some of what I had with my original Got Milk? Baby Shower, and then brought in some NEW.   So even when using a lot of what I did before, I made it different enough that it had it's own personality to make each baby shower individually special. 

Oh--I only WISH this was my backyard--but a lovely lady at church let me crash her place for the event. 

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I brought in a few cute chalkboards to write Got Milk? and placed them throughout the area.

I was recently given this cardboard milk bottle carrier and I couldn't wait for the right opportunity to use it!

I found some vintage individual serving Ice Cream Cups on Etsy and since I didn't want to put ice cream in them that might melt, I placed 2 Oreo's in each cup instead.

I still adore my little vintage milk bottle cap cake banner that I made the first time!  I placed it over some sweet old-fashioned donuts.

Red+white striped straws made for the perfect pop of color.

  Cute gingerbread cookies a guest made!

I blew up some 17 inch white balloons and added white and black fringed streamers to tie to the tables.  Then I threw some Milk Duds and Milky Way candy bars around the table for guests to grab.

Lastly, I set up the fabulous "GOT MILK? Photo Shoot" with a black sheet, glass of milk with a  straw, and a chalkboard to hold with the famous logo.
 Hint:  Use heavy cream or white frosting to make the mustache!

Got Baby?

Got Milk? Baby Shower

Milk!  It does a baby good.

Ridiculously fun baby shower.  I asked the guests to bring food that they love to drink with milk--and we got quite the selection!  The invitations that I made for this shower I posted about here.

As an activity, I had the guests participate in a "Got Milk? Photo Shoot" found HERE on my photo blog. Caution--you might want to bring some cookies to this wild party!

Milk'n in it for the camera, are we?!

I loved the take-home milk boxes filled with mini Milky Ways.  The template from the sweetest occasion is found here.

Baby bottles filled with milk and cute straws were our beverage of choice.

The star(s) of the show!

(This t-shirt was made for her using an iron on transfer) 

I found these old milk bottle caps and milk maid playing cards on Etsy and made a banner.  I absolutely LOVE how they turned out and they were my inspiration for everything.

I really love the labels that I put on the bottles to differentiate the type of milk! 

1% - "I care about the scale"

2% - "I don't care about the scale"

Chocolate % - "Screw the scale"

The goods that everyone brought!  Cereal, french toast, brownies, cookies, cinnamon rolls, scones (to name a few!) - quite the messy table after everyone devoured it, but you get the picture;)

pom-pom instructions found here

I used old milk bottles to hold the tulips and we used my grandmother's milk glass china. Gotta stick with the theme, you know?

It was great fun.

No crying over spilt milk here!

(really, could I be any more hilarious?)

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*Special thanks to Tiffany for making the milk box favors and t-shirt!  And to my sister Abby for helping me decorate and refrain from having a nervous breakdown the night before;)