Night at home

So, tonight I was supposed to be doing laundry... and well... I did a little bit (*biting lip... there's kinda a HUGE pile still to do). BUT, I also made my mom & bff a completely fattening and incredibly yummy dinner! I found a recipe for home-made corn dogs on Real Mom Kitchen yesterday while catching up on my favorite blogs and couldn't resist. I bought all the ingredients tonight on the fly and made up my first batch ever of home-made corn dogs (don't judge my pictures... there's better ones on the recipe blog page :)

Like I said... don't judge my pics :) I paired them up with Annie's mac & cheese and corn on the cob... yum!

And then I got right on the laundry! Okay... not... really...

I then started playing around with a pattern that I found on Delia Creates to make a t-shirt into a produce bag and oh my word! Sooooo easy! And turned out super cute. The only not-so-great-don't-think-I-want-it t-shirt I had on hand was a navy one. Definitely going to try this out on a lighter shirt... maybe even patterned :)

And that's it for this posting! Have a fantabulous night everyone!

The baby shower was a hit! Shawna got loaded down with gifts and little Alex shouldn't need anything for the next year! For Alex's gift, I made the onesie cupcakes from the tutorial on Little Birdie Secrets (http://littlebirdiesecrets.blogspot.com/2011/02/baby-onesie-cupcake-tutorial-and-sweet.html). Alex's mommy & daddy have chosen a jungle theme for their lil pride and joy so I went nuts in the baby section of Target to make my cutie cupcakes ;) And for the shower's edible goodies, I volunteered to make the cookie dough bites (yes! cookie dough! and we decided to switch up two tablespoons milk for each egg so each "bite" was Alex-safe and everyone else-safe for that matter) and mac&cheese bites which were delectable! Here's some photos from the shower. Enjoy!

First off... here's some of the prep on my end :)

mac&cheese bites! before&after :)

cookie dough bites... before&after!

and here's some shots from the shower... the decorations we've all been working on came together beautifully! Awesome, awesome job, Sarah!

here's the dot backdrop that Stace & I made :)

Congratulations Shawna & Adrian! Aunt Cate can't wait to meet your son!

Other than weddings... BABIES!

One of my girlfriends is going to be having a baby (hopefully) in the next several weeks and her sisters asked me to join in on the baby shower fun... I got to design a custom invitation and labels... which as we talked about last time, I LOVE!

Shawna is having a bouncing (literally... he's an active one!) baby boy. So, the colors for the shower are classic baby blue, green and gray all chosen from coordinating fabrics our host, Sarah picked out. The plaid on the invitation, the birds on the labels, and the cutie "b" on the return address labels were all inspired by the fabric choices. The theme of the party has a more clean, sophisticated style to it, but still fun and very baby-like. The fun part about all of this is that not only am I able to pull out my graphic designer skillz I've been able to be "crafty" with it too... Last week we all got together and made a doily paper chain from green, blue and white paper (Martha Stewart, you are a genius!). Then this week, me and my bff (also sister of mommy-to-be) designed, printed and constructed a cutie dot backdrop for the gift table. There's a whole lot more that we've been working on but those are my favorites so far ;)

I'll post some of the pics from the shower after the big day on Saturday, but for now here's some digital previews of what the invitations looked like.