A Jungle Baby Shower

I just did a really fun baby shower for my dear friends' daughter. She is having a little boy and chose a jungle theme for her nursery. I decided to run with the jungle theme and had a great time coming up with this....

My friend offered her house, even though it was her daughter, since she has a huge, beautiful house. The dining room alone is so pretty, as you can see by the pictures! It make it fun to decorate the big spaces!! We took the blanket from the nursery and put it on the wall with pictures that hung in our old playroom. Xander and Garrett painted them years ago and I kept them. Now I am glad I did, because we hung them on the wall next to the blanket.

This was the dessert table. We decided to do cupcakes. The nursery colors are more muted, but I had access to the brighter hues and went with them. The cupcakes turned out so cute!

At the time, we didn't have a printer, so I hand drew and colored all the pictures you see. The cupcake sticks, the water bottles, the favors. It was a lot of work, but super cute! I told the mother-to-be to tell everyone that a local artist embellished her shower!

I also decided to use the words to give the pictures depth. "Roar" for the lions, "Stretch" for the giraffe, "Growl" for the tigers, "Ooh!ooh! Aah! aah!" for the monkeys and "Squawk!" for the parrots.

Since my children have been into the animal kingdom for years, I just happened to have a bazillion animals to help me decorate!

We also hung the mobile from the light fixture over the cute centerpiece.

The centerpieces were similar to what is popular right now. The latest trend in parties, is color coordinated food. I have seen some cute all red or yellow parties with cookies and candy in jars all coordinating. I saw the suckers in a picture and fell in love.

So we used the lollypops (Easter at Wal-mart!) in the fun colors to accent the color scheme we used!

The vases with the stripes and polka-dots added so much! I love being able to borrow from friends! (I wish I owned these vases!)

Even the silverware was cute and coordinated!

Here are the water bottles. I wish I could take credit for the idea, but another party design I swiped from my research!

Yes, all hand drawn and colored! (Don't remind me!)

The favors were M&M's in the colors of the shower. (The red and brown were taken out!) Wrapped in the cutest monkey ribbon from Michael's and then I made a cute tag for them.

I was really pleased with everything! It was so cute and the food was yummy too! We had a big chef's salad with different toppings (in the vases), fruit kabobs with a pina colada dip (so yummy!) and chiken salad and croissants. It makes me want more just remembering!

Even the alligator had a good time!

With everything else I was doing, I got a hair-brained idea to try a quilt that I saw on a blog called U-create. I took the concept and made my own. I saw this jungle fabric and couldn't resist, even though it was much more than I normally pay for fabric!

To quilt it, I made jungle vines going up and down, over the letters.

The mother-to be loved it and the shower!

I made her a few burp cloths out of cute monkey fabric and doggie print. I also gave her a letter "L" for Liam (the baby's name) and some thank you cards I made. I didn't get a picture of the cute package, but I put it all in a box I found in her nursery colors.

Everything turned out so cute and I was exhausted in the end, but happy that she was happy!