I’ve been reading a lot of awesome party blogs recently and it’s inspired me to post my baby shower.

Usually a baby shower is thrown by someone for you isn’t it? Hmmm yes, well if I wanted one, which I did, I had to organise it myself as my family isn’t the most creative or organised bunch.

I decided that I wanted a Alice in Wonderland/Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and I did tons of research, website after website I browsed and brought it all together. I don’t recommend it though, organising the food and decorations when your emotional and not sleeping properly? Recipe for tears believe me!

Anyway this is how I did it….

• Decorations – Due to running out of time (because I did it all myself) it wasn’t exactly how I had pictured it.
• A marquee was set up in the backyard which was where the food, drink and some chairs were set up. The big table in the middle was for all the food and covered with a blue plastic tablecloth then a lacy type tablecloth over the top. The 2 round end tables were for hot and cold drinks covered with smaller tablecloths.

• I bought a deck of Jumbo playing cards and punched holes in the top and created a couple of strings of cards which were hung up in the marquee. (to represent the cards in the movie)
• I also had bunches of blue & white balloons (Alice’s colours and to represent my baby boy)

• I bought quite a few teacups and saucers from the Sallies shop to create these wonky teacup towers. I used blu-tack to position them all and then added some leftover playing cards. All up the tea-cups and saucers plus a simple white teapot cost around $11 so really cheap for quite effective decorations.
• I also had a couple of fabric sunflowers from an emporium ($3 each) that I glued eyes onto to create faces, unfortunately I didn’t get a photo of these
• For the food I borrowed as many cake and cupcake stands as I could and used other pretty dishes. I especially loved the height that the wooden cake stand in the middle of the table.
• Food – the food was loosely tea party themed with the addition of old favourites – cheerio sausages, small sausage rolls, mini savoury pies, cream cheese & salmon rolls, banana cake, cupcakes with pink & blue icing (I had wanted to ice “Eat Me” onto them but ran out of time), there were jam tart biscuits (for the Queen of Hearts from the nursery rhyme rather than AiW), chocolate balls, pikelets with cream & jam, marshmallows and these:
• Little “mushroom” cookies! To represent when Alice ate part of the mushroom
• On the top shelf of the stand were the jam tartlet biscuits with Shrewsburys! They have cutouts with playing card suits so they had to be included.
• Beverages – there was hot tea of course, the usual black with a selection of herbal teas, coffee, water, orange juice and green and peach iced teas.
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• I really wanted some nicer tags to go around the necks of the glass bottles but again time was the factor. If I did something like this before I would make things like that before the day. I loved the effect of having the cold drinks decanted into the glass bottles so there were no plastic branded bottles on the table, a lot classier I think
• What I wore – I didn’t dress in costume although I would have loved to find a mad hatter hat. I wore a black skirt with a red “Mad Hatter” t-shirt from JayJays and these earrings (I know they are pink and gold and don’t match the red )

So that’s it What do you think?

After a mini breakdown because I was doing it all myself and my sister was sitting on the couch it was a great afternoon and I got very spoilt with lots of gorgeous things for DS.