Manic Mama Miles

The Next Chapter: Book Baby Shower Banner

For the Book Themed Baby Shower, I made a banner for about $1. Here is how. First I found a book at Goodwill for 50 cents that had some picture pages, but also lots of pages with just words.

I knew I wanted to spell out "The Next Chapter", so I cut out a page of words-only for each letter I needed. Then I took all the pages with pictures & cut the pictures out & then cut the pages into 4ths. I did this based on the size of my letters I would be using.

Once I had the picture size, I took a piece of scrapbook paper that I had gotten at Hobby Lobby for another party for around 50 cents & I used my stencils to spell out my letters. Once I had all the letters traced, I cut them out & glued them onto the pictures that I had cut up. I then took the words-only pages & put my picture/letter combo on top. The words-only pages were larger than what I wanted to use, so I just centered everything & cut off the excess to make a square background. They wound up looking like this.

I then took my hole punch & some ribbon around the house & tied the letters together. On the ends, I used clear craft line (you can also use fishing line) to attach the banner to my old window with a thumb tack. Besides the light reflecting horribly in these pictures, the banner turned out really cute & was so cheap.

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The Next Chapter: Book Baby Shower Decorations

In keeping with the theme, books are what I also used to decorate for the Book Themed Baby Shower. I have tons of books around my house, so I used them to sit the food stands on to give the table some dimension.

These are books that I have collected over the years to read or either ones I have gotten at thrift shops because I thought they looked neat. If you aren't going to get the books to read, I suggest going to Goodwill or a thrift shop because you can find books as cheap as $1, sometimes less. The book that I set the fruit salad on is one that has old maps & atlas pages in it. This is the book I used pages from to make my old window map project that you can see here. It also had lots of pages that just listed different cities and towns. I took those pages out and used it as the paper on the serving dishes.

I found this G that looks like a book at where else? Hobby Lobby. : ) I loved how it looked like an old book & of course I bought it when they had wood decor 50% off. The book pinwheel was made the same way as the cupcake pedestal stands which you can find the instructions for here. Here is where you can find info on the mini-book cupcake picks.

Part of the decorations & gifts along with the rest of the books on the table was this crate full of books. I use this crate & a white one for so many parties. I highly recommend everyone find some good crates because they are so versatile for decorations.

Above the crate of books was the book banner that you can find more info on here. Happy reading & partying everyone. : )

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The Next Chapter: Mini-Book Cupcakes

One of my favorite little things about the Book Themed Baby Shower were these little mini-book cupcake books. These were super easy to make. I googled children's books & found this page where you could sign up to join a club where you receive children's books. This is a snapshot of what the page looked like.

All I did was print that page off (use cardstock paper if you have any, I was out so I just used regular printer paper & it worked fine). I then just cut out the little books & taped them onto a toothpick & all finished!

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The Next Chapter: Book Themed Baby Shower

One of my dear friends from law school is having a baby girl in January. She is currently living up in DC, but came down for the Thanksgiving holidays. She really wanted to fill up the baby's bookshelves, so we had her a baby book shower. I have to say, I am in love with this baby shower because I love books. My mom was a librarian when I was growing up & is now a director of a library nearby. I grew up surrounded by books at home & when I went to work with my mom. There are books all over my house, both for adults & for kids. I believe that time with books is a very special time & I was so excited for us to fill up Baby Graham's bookshelves. Something else I was excited about? How many cute ideas you can do with a book shower. First things first, I decided on a menu that would go along with the books I wanted to use as decorations on the table. I knew I wanted it to be a brunch because who doesn't love a good brunch? To me, brunch signifies a day I don't have to go to work, so I love it even more. : ) Luckily, there are so many cute books to go with a brunch.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Clementine - Fruit Salad

If You Give a Moose a Muffin - Muffins

Green Eggs & Ham - Mini Quiches

If You Give a Dog a Donut - Donuts

Of course we had to have some sweets.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Cookies

The Giving Tree - Caramel Apple Cupcakes

We also had a couple of snack foods.

Counting Kisses - Hershey's kisses

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish - Rainbow Goldfish

Pinkalicious - pink lemonade

I also made breakfast casseroles & southern crockpot grits even though I didn't have books that went along with those dishes because in the South, you can't really have a brunch without grits. I had some extra books set up in front of those dishes, mostly to fill space. This shower was so much fun to put together & so much fun to host. Books can get expensive, so I checked out Goodwill where children's books are 50 cent. You can't beat that. I found some in perfect shape. I also found some great books at Ollie's Outlet where books are usually under $5. For the other books, we split them up & got most off of Amazon because they have great prices. I obviously used the books as decorations, but for other decorations from this party, check out here for the book baby shower banner, here for the mini-books cupcake picks & here for the book pedestal cupcake stands. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

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