Monogram Tag Blanket

So since I am in that time of my life that I have many friends having babies and I am invited to lots of baby showers I have been trying to think of something cute, cheap, unique, but also something that is helpful to have. So what did I do googled it! Ahhh gotta love google.... And tag blankets came up they are so cute, so I made one for a shower I was invited to this past weekend-

I made it out of scraps of fabric and ribbon I have laying around, and to add a little something I cut a plastic bag and sewed it on the inside, since babies love that sound. For a tutorial on a tag blanket go here.

Well I also wanted to do something unique and I found this tutorial here, about a monogramed tag blanket, which I love! I made one for my friend who recently had a baby. The baby's name starts with G that is why I did that letter if you can tell it is a letter G, I went kinda crazy on the tags. And if you are going to do a letter just be warned sewing around a curvy letter like G was kinda tricky but not too bad. Also I kinda wish I would have made the G larger, but that is for next time. I thought it turned out cute and a great personalized gift!

Baby Shower

This past weekend I did a baby shower with my sister for our cousin. I love doing these things even though I stress myself to the max I enjoyed doing it! One of my favorite parts was decorating the table. To give height and a little variety I used different sizes of boxes underneath the table cloth. I had little blue plastic pacifiers I got at a dollar store I sprinkled through out along with baby shower ribbon and metallic ribbon that I also got at the dollar store.

Since she is having a boy I tried to say with a blue-ish theme. For the cupcakes I put a blueberry on the top of each one. I borrowed this cute stand from my friend- it is from Wilton. I really love this stand- maybe I will just have to get one too!


I adapted a Taste of home recipe for these ham wraps. Instead of mixing a ranch packet with cream cheese I mixed an onion dip packet with soy cream cheese. They were way yummy and you can't even tell I used a different kind of cream cheese. I chilled for an hour and then cut them up! For the fruit dip I made a cream cheese and marshmallow cream dip that is soooo yummy (and again i used soy cream cheese). For the veggie tray I got an idea from Taste of Home to have different salad dressings for dip so I had ranch and a way yummy honey mustard that everyone loved. The great thing about that was I didn't have to do any prep work!

For these yummy crackers my sister diced tomatoes and green onions and put them on top of herb & garlic crackers! Some of them she put cheese on them- I couldn't believe how fast they were gone. They were a hit.


To give out as prizes/favors I made these little boxes and filled them with m&m's, skittles, and mints. I made them on my Silhouette and just used ribbon or rub-ons to decorate. I also made a way cute little book that everyone wrote advice or something for the mom to be. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture (which I am sad about cause I won't remember how to do it again!) But each page had a letter from the word baby, and all the pages were different widths starting with the first page- that that when the book is closed it spells baby!

Anyway lots of fun and we had such a great time!