Babyshower - Ludivine

I love being the hostess with the mostess. Creatively, i'm not always on, but when i am, i get this wonderful high. And that high can get expensive and lead to slight paralysis in my fingers from excessive glue gun use. I've been very lucky to have met some great people at work. A lot of them have moved on to bigger and better things and so i don't get to see them as much. I know that i love these ladies cos i don't hem and haw about meeting up with them or attending one of their events. It's like, YES I'M DOWN! Come to think of it, i might always be the first person to reply like all the time. Haha. EAGER BEAVER! When an a former co-worker told me about her pregnancy, i was so happy for her! Like many of my friends right now, she had a few hiccups along the way. It's sad and scary how difficult it can be at our age. For my french friend's babyshower, i helped co-host the event along with three of her other friends. I would say we made a pretty good team with all four people really contributing. Communism works when everyone pulls their weight! Aside from bringing food, I put a game together (oven mitts and nesting boxes) and made her message board in the shape of an 'L'. I used the first letter of her name since she didn't have a name picked out for her bebe yet. My message board turned out pretty good! I used a foam board as the base and bought all the fabric and materials at hobby lobby. I also made these tea bag shaped sugar cookies dipped in pink candy coating. Those took FOREVER! Thanks to big poppa for helping me. I was actually recovering from a bout of food poisoning when i had to prepare everything. I don't like not following through with things like this so i made myself trudge on. So tiring! The babyshower had a parisienne brunch theme. Very fitting considering that is her heritage. I brought my little instax mini and took fotos of all her guests. All the instant pics went right onto her new message board. The co-hosts had the cutest kids! One of them made the most delicious french toast casserole. I'm gonna find a recipe and put that on my need to make list.

Baby Shower: Faith

These are fotos from rice and corn's baby shower for their little girl faith. Great name! Gilles, mascara and transam did such a wonderful job with the decor and food. I know i'm always gonna eat up a storm when i go to chez ngo. I got a chance to show my awesome pictionary skills during a baby themed challenge. The funniest part was when i was up to draw, i was up against a dood and our word was 'labor'. Oh dood he was. I drew preggo lady with legs up in the air getting ready to pop a baby out. He drew like a construction worker digging with a shovel. Hard labor! Haha. So funny. Since i knew all the pictures were baby themed, i already pulled up a list of potential baby related words in my head and just started firing them out as my teamates were drawing. And i'm LOUD. So even if the other team said the word first. All you could basically hear is MEEEEEE! Haha. I love that game. But i don't care to play it cos it brings out the ugly in me. Haha. My team won of course. Ugh you see! I hate being competitive! As i've mentioned before, i seem to have tricked people into thinking i'm a baker. I actually hate baking. I just like the art and creativity that comes with it. Since my dear co-worker friend baked me those awesomoe tirimisu cupcakes, i really wanted to try to make some. Usually i wait and make stuff only once and hope things are peachy. This time however, i did a test batch. And thank goodness i did! My first batch of cupcakes came out all weird and some were burnt. I don't believe in setting timers and i seriously can't/shouldn't bake/cook and watch tv at the same time. So i was more careful with the real batch and i think everyone seemed to like it. Even the parents liked it and older asian parents are the hardest to please when it comes to american desserts. I was pretty pleased with myself. I always enjoy spending time with this group of people. I feel like i could be stuck in a barren warehouse with no entertainment and still have a great time with them. It's all in the company! And the best part is that they seem to enjoy my comapany too.