How to Have a Baby Shower Fun and Frugal

!9# How to Have a Baby Shower Fun and Frugal

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I work with mostly men, and one of my male colleagues was her second child soon. My boss knows I like to throw parties for a reasonable price, creative fun (I had a baby shower for him), asked me to throw my colleague and his wife had a baby shower party. The couple knew a girl, and a budget of all the guys, I jumped at the chance! What fun things to buy small pink girl!

We all pitched in what they could afford, but we are asmall group. With about $ 50, I gathered, I had the plates, napkins, paper, ribbon, gift bag, food and a decent gift to buy. I will tell you how you can run a frugal, economical and fun baby shower.

The couple already has a 2-year-old son, so thankfully they had lots of great positions. I started with a beautiful basket of me by a consultant who has worked in the Longaberger Basket donated my group, which has been a great asset to the entire gift because the couple can use the cart alongAfter the child grows. It may also not very great basketball.

We have a great new value in dollars, the Dollar Tree, near our house. I knew that I could find some interesting items that add to the cart. After lining the basket with bright green tissue paper, I organized all the items in the cart, put it in the cellophane bag, made his bow, and tied them at all. I tied the noise of the paper, and put the rose in the center of the arc. I actually forgot the mesh pockets are, butResults for the best. I put more diapers, which do not fall into the basket in one of the bags might be bound, and balloons, used for anchoring of my balloon. The mesh bags are great for hanging wet towels or to use toys for a number of practical applications.

It turned out so cute! The sheets, strips, frames, and rattle all had the same pink and lime green. Even the bags were lime green! I was really proud of how everything is color coordinated. The Longaberger Consultantloved, as I gave it decorated basketball and took many pictures of her to point to their parties.

That's what I found to put on the Dollar Tree in the shopping cart, and some other frugal finds from other sources:

Paper plates warm place with pink flowers and lime green: $ 1 Big square white napkins: $ 1 Wired ribbon with pink and lime green butterflies: $ 1 Breck Lavender Baby Wash: $ 1 Breck Lavender Baby Lotion: $ 1 Baby wipes rinse Breck, $ 1 Fisher-Price Baby Sockswith yellow trim - 3 Pack: $ 1 Baby Spoon with Soft Pink Handles - 2 Pack: $ 1 Pink Bottle Brush with handle: $ 1 Pink snack holders - 3 Pack: $ 1 Lime green shirt with drawstring bags - 4 Pack: $ 1 Photo frames with pink flowers small: $ 1 Tickets: $ 0.50 (cards 2 / $ 1 at Dollar Tree) 2 Mylar helium balloons, a pink heart, a Welcome Baby: $ 2 ($ 1 each) Clear cellophane gift bag - 2 Pack: $ 1 Pampers Newborn diapers: $ 9.72/pack of WalMart One Brand Desitin: $ 1.76 offWal-Mart Photo Album grandmother (Wrapped & New): $ 0.75 from flea market Rubber Duckies, mother and child - New: Donato Geri Rattle rings Pink and Lime Green: $ 2 from WalMart Artificial Pink Rose: FREE from around my house

Dollar Tree Total: $ 15.50 WalMart Total: $ 14.62 Miscellaneous. Total: $ 0.75 Total Gift: $ 30.87 (excluding VAT)

Left with the money, I bought the following dishes. Look for specials on seasonal fruit and use the coupons, if possible! I've always wantedcarved on one of these wheelchair nice of a watermelon to do. It 'was relatively easy, and this was a great success with men and women attending the shower.

Whole watermelon Pineapple Strawberries Blueberries Orange 4 Bunches Individual sponge: 2 x 6 Cheese plate with four different varieties Whipped cream: FREE from my house

TOTAL: about $ 20

Watermelon Baby Carriage

If the melon is jerky, cut a small piece of land toFlatten the bottom. Carve the watermelon, melon and cut into pieces reserved for the fruit salad. (You will be more than necessary!) You can add a decorative border at the top if you want. Save to do with the crust more for the promotion. Cut to cut the rest of the fruit into small pieces. Mix the pieces of watermelon. Stroller handle the bark remaining fashionable with my picture as a guide. Attach the handle to the body with toothpicks. Cut the oranges into 4 pieces, and theGrapes, even with large toothpicks to attach the wheels to the melon wagon.

I took off for a separate carved melon in a large working white plastic garbage bags and fruit salad in a large pool deck and I kept cool. Just before serving the car on a plate, mount the wheels and handle, spoon the salad in melon. Serve the fruit salad with a sponge cake, whipped cream and cheese platter.

This simple but elegant feast served about 18Guests, and all had a wonderful time. The gift basket and food were a great success, and 2-years, loved to play with balloons.