Sock Monkey Shower - Clothesline

For a background decoration I did a baby clothes line in a monky/red-brown-white theme.

Here are the customized clothespins I made to hang the clothes with:

I painted the pins

Red,

Brown,

White,

before covering the fronts with scrapbook paper (from Hobby Lobby).
In order to find the exact kind of clothes I wanted for on the line I ended up shopping new stuff on ebay!
Thankfully I found some pretty good deals and was very pleased with my monkey themed sleeper/onesie. 
Since I ran out of time, I paid Christa (from Sophias Sundries) to custom make my sock monkey hat.
If your interested in making one yourself you can find a FREE pattern (in six sizes!) on the Repeat Crafter Me blog.

Sock Monkey Shower - Cake

I decided to do cupcakes instead of a big cake and in keeping with the sock monkey theme they have monkey faces on them.

Here are links to the recipes I used:

Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe

 Chocolate Buttercream Icing

To make their little faces you use:

1 vanilla wafer for the mouth

1 mini vanilla wafer (cut in 1/2) for the ears

2 chocolate chips

1 tube of red icing for the smile

(Note: when cutting the vanilla wafers you can't "chop" down on them - you kind of have to saw them in 1/2 ---otherwise they break into a million pieces!)

This post linked to:
Roses of Inspiration Link Up #3 

 

Sock Monkey Shower - Favors - Banner

 For favors we (my sister-in-law and I) did a candy bar.

I made the personalized banner above the bar - she took care of the candy/jars/favor bags.

Here you can see the burlap wraps and labels she made to go around the jars.

Here's a better view of the favor bags she made up using brown lunch sacks.
(Here's a great tutorial on making them!)

Here's the banner I made using papers from Hobby Lobby

For the monkey in the center I used the free pattern from chickabug blog.

Sock Monkey Baby Shower

I had a lot of fun planning and hosting a baby shower for my nephew's wife (Emily) last Saturday.

Since she's having a boy and doing his nursery in the sock monkey theme - I chose the same theme for my shower decor. 

 All the shower decorations went home with her as a gift (minus the big wagon since that is my daughter's from some very special friends in Indiana!).
We used the wagon to put the gifts in:

Check out the banana tree diaper cake my friend made her:

I found this metal bicycle at Hobby Lobby and the slingshot (screaming) sock monkey on ebay.

 This little red wagon also came from ebay -- I borrowed one of Emily sock monkeys to sit inside.

The letters came from Wal-mart and the papers to decorate them came from Hobby Lobby.

Here's the little sock monkey advice tree -- you can find the free printables for this on the "Tricks of the Motherhood Trade" blog.

(Note: They took a while to load up -- just be patient and they'll get there eventually.)

I did tissue paper pom poms above the table instead of balloons.

Here are links to the rest of the Sock Monkey themed posts.
Favors and Banner
Cake
Clothesline
Food

This post linked to:
 I Gotta Create