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Some Traditional Baby Shower Themes

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There are hundreds of themes for baby showers, and perhaps the perfect theme lies somewhere in the region of your imagination. For instance, if the mother-to-be is addicted to reading tabloid magazines, you might want to throw a shower that features a collage of celebrity babies. If she is into astrology, you might want to consider having the baby’s chart done or visiting a site on the Internet that helps you name a star for the baby. Yoyu could all black baby shower, for the Goth mom, who wants her child dressed in leather.

 

However if you are wondering how to decorate for a baby shower using some traditional themes here are some ideas.

 

The Teddy Bear Shower is a classic that encourages guests to bring a stuffed toy as a gift for the mother-to-be. Sometimes, a bear with a zipper side closure will be bought and money and/or gift certificates are stuffed inside to present to the mother.
In this case it is desirable to encourage guests to bring clothing, linen, and baby dinnerware decorated with teddy bear as gifts.

 

A cake is baked in the shape of a teddy bear and sometimes, the guests will sit on the floor on a checkered tablecloth to engage in a Teddy Bear’s Picnic. Round cookies can also be attached and iced to look like Teddy Bears. Flowers such as daisies or chrysanthemums suit a Teddy Bear shower.

 

Gummy bears tied with a pink or blue net make a nice party favor for guests to take home. Gummy bears can also be used to decorate a cake. A more elaborate take home gift is a teddy bear inside a plastic snow-shaker ornament.

 
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Another classic is the stork shower. This is a freestanding cardboard sign on the front lawn usually marks a baby shower that features a stork theme. This sign, which features the big bird carrying a baby in a diaper, is used to direct approaching guests to the right house. Sometimes this sign is erected on the front lawn of the mother-to-be’s home after the baby is born.

 

Roses, gladiolas and peonies suit this. A nice touch is to decorate the front door step with decorative cabbages. Stork parties are often also “diaper parties” so often guests are encouraged to bring a package of diapers as gifts.

 
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Guests can also be presented with custom-made bracelets or necklaces made from the same kind of beads they use to make baby identification bracelets in hospitals.
These are two of the most traditional ideas for decorating a baby shower and sometimes being traditional is the most fashionable way to be of all.

Girly and Feminine Wedding Cakes

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Decorating cakes so they are frilly and feminine is a real art. One of the most interesting of these cakes is the Pink Champagne wedding cake . This is not a new thing…the Pink Champagen Wedding Cake is actually a 100-year-old tradition. The cake was invented during the roaring twenties and it is basically a white cake in which all of the liquids (like water or milk) have been replaced by pink champagne. This gives the cake a distinctive fruity flavor.

 

In fact to make it at home all you have to do is buy a white cake mix and simply substitute pink champagne or even a rose for the liquids specified in the baking instructions. The frosting is also easily made out of butter, sugar, milk and champagne as well. The cake never naturally turns out pink so a few drops of red food coloring are added to the frosting to give it a delicate pastel rose hue.

 

Very few bakers nowadays make this retro style of cake but you can find it at the Kansas Steak Company online if you want to order one for a special celebration. However making one yourself is relatively inexpensive and also super-easy.

 

It is very traditional for wedding cakes to be decorated with edible pearls. Edible pearls are not anything fancy. They are simply tiny balls of fondant that have been rolled into tiny balls. They are then dusted with real edible pearl dust to give them their solid and shiny appearance and are often unmistakable for the real thing.

 

Real edible pearl dust can be bought online and eating it is supposed to have the same effects on a man as Cialis. Interestingly pearl dust is also sometimes sprinkled into glasses of poured champagne at weddings to make the drink less acidic and also make them glow a bit in the dark.

 

Edible pearls look great with natural wildflowers and that is a real decorating trend nowadays. Some cakes that are more feminine look fantastic with shiny ribbon wrapped around them or very polished strips of fondant.

 

If you a Cinderella bride then you will definitely want to look into the wedding cakes that are shaped like castles. Palace themed wedding cakes also suit people who are having the literal “fairy-tale” wedding such as a medieval wedding or one based on Disney. Believe it or not you can even get wedding gowns that are based on the gowns of Disney characters nowadays!