Featured!!!

*** Updated 11/27***

SOOOO EXCITED!!!!

I've been featured on a few blogs and it makes me SO happy!

Thanks to my fellow bloggers for creating such GREAT blogs!

The Vintage Picnic baby shower we held for Sara is

"Party of the Day" at

AND the Woodland baby shower was "Party of the Day" on 11/27/10!!

On Monday the Woodland baby shower we held

for Jenn was featured on

Last month the Vintage Picnic

was featured on

I am so THANKFUL and HONORED to be featured on these great blogs!!!

A Vintage Picnic

As I mentioned in my previous post some friends got 
together to throw a baby shower for Sara. 
Tiff and I were in charge of food and 
since it was a "vintage picnic" theme 
we decided to provide a picnic-ish dinner.

The food/drink table.

We kept the drinks simple with pink lemonade, 
sweet tea and water.

For dessert we had Pie in a jar 
(see previous post for all the DELISH details).
Preggers with her pie! 

I ADORE vintage cameras and have a variety 
of them in my house
(this one is was my parents and I remember taking pictures with it when I was a kid).

I purchased the picnic basket on clearance 
at Target for about $3.

What can I say, I'm a BARGAIN shopper.

There was a choice of chicken salad sandwich or egg salad sandwich 
and both included a clementine and SWEET potato chips.

Sandwiches wrapped in wax paper and tied with raffia.

VERY cute and EASY.

Tiff and I.

Alaina made this LOVELY garland out of 
fabric scraps and twine.

SO CUTE!

Sara's going to use them for the baby's room.

An old window where the gifts went.

"Picnic blankets" were placed on the floor, 

so we could eat picnic style! 

A wonderful picnic with friends and a SASSY Sara.

For months I've been purchasing mason jars 
(mainly at thrift stores and garage sales for super cheap) 
and I finally used them as drinking glasses at the party. 
I wrapped a small piece of bakers twine from The Twinery
and placed a white straw in each jar

(purchased at Target around the 4th of July for a $1).
ATLAS mason is my new FAVE!!!

Seriously.

I tell you my GREAT deals, so you hopefully get inspired to keep your eyes open for these fun items at GREAT prices.

Some other friends were in charge of the party favors.

They placed gerber daisys in a mason jar (YAY), 
then filled it with ...

... M&Ms (yummmm).

It was a super fun evening honoring Sara and 
I was so blessed to be a part of it!

Guess who's baby shower is next?....

... Jenn's!!!

**Update** 
Check out Jenn's Woodland Baby Shower here!

Pie in a Jar

SO excited to share this! My DEAR friend Sara is expecting a sweet little girl in a few weeks (or sooner), so some LOVELY ladies threw her a little baby shower. The theme was a "Vintage Picnic" and my FABULOUS friend Tiffany and I were in charge of food. I will show you all the fun stuff we did later, but for now... DESSERT!

I had seen this idea a while back and I had been dying to try it and this was the PERFECT occasion. So we made PIE IN A JAR!!! I googled "pie in a jar" and found inspiration/help from Not Martha and Llyod and Lauren. Here's what WE ended up doing.

Fist we purchased wide mouth half pint mason jars. I LOVE mason jars!

Elisha came over to help with the pie crust.

I'd love to tell you how we made our own pie filling and how labor intensive and epic it was, but we didn't. We found "great value" and purchased it and some pie crust. So we had some pies with homemade crust and others had store-bought crust. Get over it. This is how I roll.

We placed pieces of dough in the jar, then smoothed it out as best we could and trimmed the tops.

Hard at work!

I used the mouth of a jar to cut out a top for the pie. We made three flavors (cherry, peach and apple), so each pie top was different (dots, criss-cross and a heart). For the cherry pie I used a straw to make holes.

We then filled the jar with filling about 3/4s of the way.

Placed the crust top on.

Folded down the edges around the jar to meet the top.

Crimped the edges with a fork.

We baked some to test and froze the rest. We baked the test pies at 350 for about 45min (do NOT bake with lids on). The nice part is the pies are in a glass jar, so you can see if the crust is a light brown and ready. We sealed up the rest and stuck them in the freezer. Conveniently next to the ice cream. The frozen pies were later baked for about the same time (just check on them and adjust accordingly).

PIES!!!

Here they are at the party.

SWEET AS PIE!

Sara and her pie with some whipped cream.

Me and my pie (I made my friend stand on a wobbly chair to take this picture, 
I was dying of laughter on the inside!).

I HEART PIE.

Do YOU heart pie??? What flavor?

linking up to-

3 x 3

3 baby showers in 3 months.

1. Butterfly Garden - September

2. Vintage Picnic - October

3. Woodland- November

It's going to be spectacular.