Sugar and Spice ...BABY SHOWER

I hosted my FIRST (surprise) baby shower for Ashley @ work. We had it in the conference room of an office near my office so it would "remain" a surprise.

Everyone was very good about keeping it hush, hush. Ashley had not the slightest clue.

The theme was "Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice, that's what girls are made of". I made a banner from cardstock spelling out the baby-to-be's name "Amelia".

Food: I had simple finger foods. An assortment of crackers, a brie cheese platter with strawberry, grapes, a crudite platter, bruschetta, Sabra hummus with roasted pine nuts, and rolled deli wraps.

For dessert, I made marble cupcakes with "pink" cheesecake frosting topped with pink sprinkles. (I tucked Hershey kisses in the center (before baking) for a sweet surprise.) It was delish!

We played three games, for the chance at three different "prizes". The prizes were Sugar (cake mix wrapped in a pink onesie), Spice (my favorite El Yucateco Habenero hot sauce also wrapped in a onesie), and "All things Nice" (a candle and votive set wrapped with a bottle cleaning brush).

Games played: 1. Fill in the nursery rhyme. 2. Match the mommy animal to its baby name. 3. a riddle.

The riddle was ....Old Mother Hubbard, went to the cupboard, to fetch her dog a bone. But when she got there, the cupboard was bare, and she said, "icurmt".

Who ever translated it correctly won.
(Answer: "I see you are empty")

Everyone walked away with the cutest Hershey candy wrapped in a homemade "sleeping baby wrapper". Aren't they adorable??

It's surprisingly easily to make. I printed out labels with the event date on Avery 8160 labels. Hershey's were wrapped in cardstock and I tucked a picture of a babyface I had found on the web. I printed it on ivory paper to give it a natural baby face look and dusted the cheeks with face blush. I thought the ribbon was a great detail to add. THEY ARE SO ADORABLE!!! And when lined up on the gift table, it looked like a large bed of sleeping babies.

It was such a hit, my friend Silvia immediately said that I can plan her baby shower....(no, she is not expecting....) :D