Stacy's Baby Shower

One of the most fun things I have done lately is plan a baby shower for our daughter-in-law Stacy. Wayne and Stacy will be having their first baby in late January. It's a girl. We are all excited. While they were in the area for Thanksgiving, I held a shower for her on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Here is our "guard chicken" in front of our house holding balloons to celebrate the occasion. (You may have noticed a reference to the guard chicken on the panel to the right of my blog,"about me.")

I chose to use a vintage theme for the shower. I decorated the mantel with old family baby pictures and vintage baby items.

The baby bottle from the 1940's is still in its original packaging. However, its black rubber nipple is hardened over time. The Pablum box is also probably about that old. Isn't it amazing what can be found in my parents' house! Pablum was probably the first brand of baby cereal, and hence we used to call any baby cereal pablum. You know, like we call any tissue Kleenex. Next to that box is my baby picture and my baby hairbrush.

The babies in these pictures are my daughter Anna, my mother Ivah, my son Wayne, and my father Alva McClenathan. The Baby's Nest Egg bank belonged to Wayne as a baby.

On this end of the mantel, in front of our old storefront clock, are Wesley's clown bank, a bootie planter, some vintage children's books, a record, and Stacy's very special cloth ABC book embroidered for her by her Grandmother Brown.

This is the diaper cake I made for the serving table. Notice that I used old-fashioned cloth diapers instead of the popular disposable ones used today.

This crib quilt was a special gift from my mother and me. I found these two appliqued quilt blocks that Mom had made in 1988. So I incorporated them into a patchwork quilt I made with fabric scraps also from Mom's house. (Mom is 88 and lives at a nursing home in Ohio.)

Guess who this chicken bunting is from! You guessed it, the Chicken Lady!

Stacy received many wonderful gifts at the shower. Even her best friend in England sent her some delightful items, and also Wayne's cousin Karen in Minnesota. She is now all set with all sorts of useful and cuddly and pink baby things!

Stacy is wearing a hanky baby corsage. All the guests went home with one of them. I made these from vintage lady's handkerchiefs. Stacy's was made from a special hanky with the name "Mother" on it.

Left to right: Plez (Stacy's mother), Stacy, Marie (Stacy's mother-in-law, that's me!), and Denise (Stacy's stepmom).

There's more about the shower. See the next posting!