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Safari Theme Baby Shower with Giraffe Party Supplies

Safari Theme Baby Shower Giraffe Party Supplies and Decorations
Safari Theme Baby Shower Giraffe Party Supplies and Decorations
Giraffe Planter Shawnee USA as Baby Shower Centerpiece
Giraffe Planter Shawnee USA as Baby Shower Centerpiece

My Baby Shower Shop

Safari or zoo theme baby showers are designed with animals and nature in mind. This adorable vintage giraffe planter has added beauty with artist designed, paper crafted tropical trees depicting the days spent roaming through the zoo. An attention grabbing centerpiece for a zoo theme  baby shower. It incorporates animals, nature and neutral colors that suit boys and girls.

In My Baby Shower Shop’s collection, the adorable, vintage giraffe planter has a honey brown tone that gives the animal so much of its natural details. The two palm trees are hand crafted from cardboard and cardstock with wood grain textures to make them more realistic. “BABY” banner between both trees to showcase as a centerpiece for the shower. After the shower, use as nursery decor to compliment a safari or zoo theme baby room.

The matching invitations carry the design with wood grain textures, palm tree and baby giraffe enjoying the leaves on the palm tree. The favor bags are cardstock with the same design. On the back, “Welcome Baby sweetness unlimited.”

VIDEO of this baby shower Set.

Safari Giraffe YouTube Video by My Baby Shower Shop
Safari Giraffe YouTube Video by My Baby Shower Shop

Safari Decoration Ideas:  Choose any animal you enjoy or add a combo of jungle animals to design the decorations around.

  • Add animal print fabric as a table cover for a much richer appeal and compliments the party supply set.
  • Display the centerpiece – My Baby Shower Shop Vintage Giraffe Planter. Or choose any safari or zoo animal as the main focus.
  • Play safari music while guests enjoy the baby shower.
  • If the nursery currently has some of this theme started, temporarily set them out as decorations around the party area.
  • Large green fronds or tropical leaves either real, silk or paper for table tops or over doorways and on the front door.
  • Add Canvas Images of animals from your local zoo (low cost decoration when you print them out at Sam’s club, while making a BIG impression.

Safari and Zoo Party Supplies:

  • Plates, napkins and flatware can be in earth tone colors, or childlike zoo animal designs. If you have bamboo or other wooden dishes, use those, as they represent the trees.
  • Invitations, favor bags, food labels, cupcake papers and thank you cards can all coordinate with your decorations.

Safari Baby Shower Food:

  • An adorable cake in earth tones and one or multiple safari animals displayed, with an inner cake layer of animal print, tree fronds or an animal image. Add a chocolate filling.
  • Chips in various colors, dip.
  • Tropical trail mixes are a perfect healthy snack for guests.
  • Nature store bought, “Endangered Species” Candy bars. The image on the packaging already gives it the Safari look, or add decorated paper wrappers that match the theme.
  • Brown and green candies in wooden bowls or bamboo serving dishes.
  • BBQ meats and picnic style foods like finger sandwiches, ribs, chicken wings or wild game meat.
  • Add cups of potato salad as sides.
  • Vegetable stalks in cups look like jungle vegetation
  • Fruit trees are an awesome display and healthy snack for guests.

Safari GAMES:

4 Exclusive Baby Shower Games by My Baby Shower Shop plus traditional games to play.

  • Safari Animal Spot the Spots Game – Exclusive game (c) 2014
  • Baby Food Jar Surprise Game – Exclusive game (c) 2014
  • Zoo Animals Speedy Name Game –  Exclusive game (c) 2014
  • Who Is Hiding the Safari Animal? –  Door Prize Game – Exclusive game (c) 2014
  • Baby Animals when you list the adult animal name and guests list the baby name, “cat = kitten”.
  • Bingo
  • Word Scramble of animal names
  • Instead of diaper a baby, diaper a stuffed zoo animal
  • Name the animal songs or nursery rhymes

To get the most current visual ideas for your safari theme baby showers, check out our Pinterest board for inspiration.

Pinterest Safari Baby Showers by MyBabyShowerShop - see ideas for your safari baby shower
Pinterest Safari Baby Showers by MyBabyShowerShop – see ideas for your safari baby shower

Artist Shares August 21,2013 Library book finds, Toadstool Dilemma and Trumpet Vines

Artist Shares

I am a Stampin Up demonstrator again. I am excited about that and looking forward to building that website and sharing some easy holiday projects for crafters. All of my paper and ink products are created from this line, for the baby shower business. I love the quality and how creative it makes me feel.

My online catalog, products and craft ideas http://brendakyle.stampinup.net 

Crafts

My initial order with Stampin Up will include the newest colors for 2013-2015 and are: Baked Brown Sugar, Coastal Cabana, crisp cantaloupe, pistachio pudding and strawberry slush. I will try them in cardstock, ink pads, ink and markers. Than pick a few for My Baby Shower Shop products.

Stampin Up Chalk Talk Stamp Set. Oh the cool tags and embellishments this will create!
Stampin Up Chalk Talk Stamp Set. Oh the cool tags and embellishments this will create!
StampinUp Baby Shower Sayings Cuddles and Kisses Stamp Set.
StampinUp Baby Shower Sayings Cuddles and Kisses Stamp Set.

Stamp sets: Cuddles and Kisses for those baby shower cards and invitations. Chalk Talk Bundle with stamps and framelits. This is a perfect addition for a trendy representation of chalkboards.

Stampin Up Starter Order with New Colors 2013-2015
Stampin Up Starter Order with New Colors 2013-2015

After the initial order. I can place my personal party order and meet my quarterly minimum. This is the most fun, but always a bit difficult to knock the want list down to the budget.

More of the new colors in cardstock. Adding the line of Smoky Slate, as I found in the Stampin Up class, this is a versatile and lovely shade of gray that will compliment everything.

I will take advantage of the newest items. The Magnetic board for the Big Shot (on hold till they get more in), new small cutting pads and the Simply Scored Boarders.

Then it is onto Stamp sets:

Library Book Finds for the month.

Renewed “Food Photography, Pro Secrets for Styling, Lighting & Shooting” by Lara Ferroni.

Publishing E-Books for Dummies – still have too look in this book. I have read about how- to’s before, it is more of a matter of time to create a work and publish it!

Book Play, Creative Adventures in Handmade Books” By Margaret Couch Cogswell”.

Cake Craft Made Easy” Step-by-Step Sugarcraft Techniques for 16 Vintage-Inspired Cakes, by Fiona Pearce. This is a very nice book with a few “doable” ideas. I will curl some sugar paper soon and transform those into stamped images too. My kind of a cake decoration.

The Yard – Barefoot in the Garden

The hottest side of my house, retards anything that tries to grow up the trellis. So I picked up a lovely shad of yellow and the normal red tones of trumpet vines to lavish the wooden decor. I hope to enlighten my hummers with their favorite flowers and add to their yearly habitat here. I feed them yearly, from tax day in April, till the water starts to freeze in the feeder. The wonderful summer weather is now heating back up to its normal temps, so mornings only for the garden this week.

TOADSTOOL REMOVAL.  The dilemma with the returning Toadstools continues. The first product appears to do nothing, as read previously, that chemicals do not kill them.

I am back to a more rare find on the internet, Nitogen based fertilizer. After removing the toadstool fungus a fourth time, I will apply an application of Urea with 45% (4-0-0) nitrogen. Just a small bag for the small area and I will add the rest to the shrubs. I will keep you posted on the solution for removing toadstools. Update on 9/10/13, they came up in new, surrounding areas. It appears the nitrogen does work, It is necessary to spread it through the whole area infected with them to prevent further fungus growth.

**** I created a short VINE video (on android app) about the Toadstool removal if you would like to see the process in 7 seconds. My id is: brendakcartist  – feel free to search for me and follow me.  I also video graphed the hummingbirds in two videos,.

PASSION For Food

To recreate Bob Evans Sour cream and chives mashed potatoes, I boiled potatoes with garlic gloves, mashed them and added sour cream and fresh chives from my garden. It was pretty easy and comparative. So creamy and yes, I am sure; more fattening than usual.

Artist Share July 20 to July 25 2013

Artist Sharing the world is a beautiful place

The stars, health and relationships of not been the greatest this month and have worked hard to smother out passion and motivation. I am happy to feel a change back to feeling both and all the creations and work that comes from that improvement. I have a lot of organizing to take care, lots of nasty paperwork that needs my attention and in between; fun.

July 25, I feel creative today! So Happy 🙂

My daughter has been volunteering at an outdoor day camp this week, but she played hooky and went fishing on Friday! She caught a bass over two pounds and said it was quite the fighter.

Erica went fishing today and caught a nice bass over two pounds
Erica went fishing today and caught a nice bass over two pounds

Writer in the Blog

From my last weeks library pickup, I am enjoying and learning a great deal from Food Photography by Lara Ferroni. I added a book review and recommendation for this book on hubpages in my article. 12 Tips for a Great Food Blog or Recipe.

I am moving away from writing as much on Hubpages and more on my own blogs. Instead, I am removing all the unfinished articles and adding to the content for the existing ones. I enjoy reading articles there and will continue doing so. It is a wonderful social media network for writers. So you will see more full articles here, in addition to the shorter posts.

My Baby Shower Shop

Working on a zoo collection, featuring a giraffe and tropical trees. Very sweet, unique and neutral baby theme. The collection includes a vintage girrafe planter with paper palm trees and baby banner, matching invitations, white envelopes and favor bags.

The Tiffany or turquoise color, elegant set is complete and ready for the Etsy shop. Turquoise recycled Italian glass jars with invitations and white envelopes. This is a one of a kind set.

I am working on an adorable diaper bag favor, actually many designs of it and will share those to inspire others. I plan to design a collection to represent the theme for my Etsy shop.

Working on giraffe baby shower set and trying out some diaper bag favors
Working on giraffe baby shower set and trying out some diaper bag favors
Tiffany Blue Invitations and Turquoise favor glass jar
Tiffany Blue Invitations and Turquoise favor glass jar

 

 

As soon as the collections are complete, they will appear in my Etsy Shop: BridalandBabyFavors. They are one of a kind and only one set will be available!

 

 

 

 

Passion For Food

After smoking a pork butt for the first time, it was time for a burrito fest. Shredded pork butt mixed with a taco mix, another will regular burrito mix and refried beans, the last one was KC Master Piece with a tough of The Three Little Pigs BBQ sauces. I will share the recipes and mixes with you on my food blog soon SmokedRecipes.net.

Burrito Fest with Smoked Pork Butt
Burrito Fest with Smoked Pork Butt

 

Focus on Baby shower business and Fourth of July Food

MY BABY SHOWER SHOP

Recent business advice from the most insightful person I know, has redirected my energy towards growing My Baby Shower Shop business.

  • Developing categories to create new baby shower themes and reinventing old ones.
  • Working on a fabulous Android App to fill the void in baby shower planning guides and one secret app for new moms.
  • More baby shower invitations
  • baby shower favors
  • labels
  • mom advice
  • vintage table decor with other party decorations as a set

I wanted to rent out the vintage decor, but advised the risk is too high. I decided instead to create and sell the sets. The wonderful part about these sets is the fact that they can be reused as baby decor in nursery. Making efforts to reduce waste and reusing items is the best plan accommodating any environmental concerns.

PASSION for FOOD

Fourth of July is around the corner, and it is time for me to complete a few food video recipe guides. I love the idea of finger foods for the outdoors. The more convenient to grab it and run, the better! What to expect on SmokedRecipes.net food blog and smokedrecipes YouTube channel. I can’t wait to share these summer recipes.

  • Smoked stuffed mushrooms
  • Smoked Chicken Leg Quarter – BBQ KC Masterpiece for our Kansas City Lovers
  • Peach panini recipe for hand sized, low mess dessert.
Peach Panini Dessert, perfect summer dessert for fingers enjoying the outdoors
Peach Panini Dessert, perfect summer dessert for fingers enjoying the outdoors