ROCK PAPER SCISSORS WEBSITE LAUNCH + GIVEAWAY!!!!

** GIVEAWAY CLOSED**

Friends, we have such a fun giveaway today!! Our sweet friend, Lauren, has RE-launched her paper boutique's website, and we are soooooo excited!! Leah and I shop there often, and go to Lauren for ALL of our stationery needs. She and her staff are just the best at what they do... end of story! Now, everything is available to you out of towners as well. YAY!!

We are celebrating with a giveaway!! Lauren was kind enough to offer up one of her custom designed self-inking address stamps for one of our lucky readers. Leah and I both have one, and we LOVE it!! It makes addressing envelopes or stamping your books so much easier and much more stylish. They make great gifts as well.  Although, you may have a really hard time deciding on which one to pick. That is always the hardest part, right? 

Here is how you enter...

1. Go to Lauren's beautiful new site HERE 

2. PIN your favorite stamp design from her site.

3. THEN, come back here and comment on which stamp you liked best! Be sure and leave your Pinterest name in the comment so that we can be sure you pinned!!

** Winner will be announced on Thursday**

Happy entering!!!!

XO,

Heydy Lopez... you are our winner! Please email us to claim your lovely stamp, friend!!! 

Thanks for entering everyone!! We really appreciate you!

JENNI'S CONCERT THEMED SHOWER

HIP HOP HOORAY! A baby boy is on the way!

Jenni is due soooo soon with her second baby, Remy! Don't you love the name for a sweet baby boy by the way? Two great friends, Lori Mahon and Lauren Rauter, co-hosted with me. We decided to throw a concert-themed baby shower since Jenni currently thinks at one point thought she could be a country singer, and her husband Gabe a singer/performer/song writer (and for that matter Lori, Lauren's husband, and my husband are all in the music industry as well! It is Nashville, after all). A nod to 90's hip hop, Jenni's love of country music, and concert references mixed together to create our decor.

It all started with the invitation, designed by Lauren of Rock Paper Scissors. Actually all of the paper materials you see here were all printed by Lauren. Geez it's handy having a graphic designer bestie.

Concert posters, concert ticket garlands, and DIY marquee lights were the main decor, offset by cassette tapes and a boom box I got off of Ebay and spray painted gold!

Below is a DIY cassette tape mobile! I spray painted an embroidery hoop and cassette tapes gold, then used fishing line to attach. Command ceiling hooks held up perfectly.

For food, we did all concert food: hot dogs, nachos, soft pretzels, popcorn, and soda all held together in a food tray so it was easy for guests to carry around. 

Note the music themed names we gave all of the food... we crack ourselves up.

 Custom painted scoops sold on our Etsy shop.

Jenni's fav Sugarfina gummies in the shape of sneakers! Perfect for our hip hop theme!

At every shower we throw, we like to have the guests write their address on the envelopes for Jenni's thank you notes! Saves a ton of time for the mama-to-be.

Of course, we have the diaper cake - tutorial HERE - topped with baby Nike Dunks, Jenni's request for her baby boy!

For favors, Lauren made these little boom boxes wrapped around an animal crackers box.

 Being a Love & Lion shower, we had to have a tattoo bar :)

Big sis-to-be, Amara, helped open all of the prezzies.

 Gorgeous mama Jenni!!

We LOVED throwing you this shower, Jenni! You're already an incredible mom, and we know you're going to be a pro with two. Love you!

-L

ICE CREAM SOCIAL - SIP AND SEE

My oldest friend, Rebecca, just had Ada, the sweetest little bean you ever did see! Remember her baseball themed bridal shower HERE? We had an ice cream bar then (her fav), so my mom and I went with a whole ice cream theme for her sip and see! I basically have no imagination and wanted ice cream. BTW a sip and see is a baby shower AFTER the baby is born- you sip drinks and see the baby. Get it? Might be a southern thing, I don't know!

Colors and design began with this adorable invitation by Rock Paper Scissors.

Frozen water balloons = the cuter cousin of ice cubes.

Loooove how Rock Paper Scissors designed the ice cream cup labels and cone wrappers!

DIY GIANT ICE CREAM CONES:

-honeycomb balls (here and here)

-kraft wrapping paper

-double stick tape

For the cone, follow THIS template... just eyeball it and make it giant! It's a little tricky, not gonna lie. Cut out and tape the ends of the cone together. Stick the honeycomb ball in and gently tape with double stick tape. I was laying mine flat on the table, so I didn't need to secure it well. If you're hanging them, I'd make them with the tiny honeycomb balls so they'll be lighter.

Pinwheels, plates, and napkins by Meri Meri.

It's not a party without Aunt Ellie's Campfire Crispies! This time we went with gluten free Oreo flavor. Yuuuuum.

We got these adorable scoops HERE and painted them. We're thinking about selling these little scoopity scoops painted custom in our ETSY shop- what do you think? They were perfect for ice cream toppings.

Table runner by Kitchen Papers.

I used THIS tassel tutorial and used my Silhouette for the letters.

Here's the new mama Rebecca and sweet Ada! Imagine knowing someone for your entire life, then they're in labor, and you're crying alone in your car just sitting in your driveway so your kids don't get freaked out that you're crying. Yep, that was me.

Ice cream parties are the easiest because there's no cooking or baking! Everything is store bought but looks special depending on how you display it. Sweet and simple!

-L