House of Hydrangeas

I have three showers I'm helping with in the next three months.  I feel like I'm back to planning my wedding all over again!  The first shower is a wedding shower for one of my sorority sisters.  The colors that the other hostesses and I are using are brown and pink.  And here are a few ideas we have in mind. Floral filled apothecaries, white platters, pink personalized cocktail, and perhaps a little Bells of Ireland. I love a drink with a garnish.  Don't you?  Oh, and yes, we will be rocking the striped straws at this shower too :) I'm almost done with the invites for Baby Cohen's shower.  All I have left to do is finish the adding the inserts requesting that guests bring a book instead of a card.  I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with this concept, but I first discovered it about a year ago, and I know it's really been catching on.  The idea is to slip in a little note (or write on the invite itself) asking that instead of bringin...

I'm busy doing yard sale/moving prep today so I'll keep this short.  But I didn't want to leave you empty-handed though so here are a few links I think you should check out. There are some amazing before and afters featured on House Beautiful. Before After Check out the rest of the featured transformations here .  And since I'm still in baby shower mode, here's an adorable girl baby shower that has NO pink at it!  *claps and cheers*  I'm in love. T-minus 3 days until the movers come.  Ahhh!  Back to work I go.

It's C-O-H-E-N. That's right, Mer and Michael decided on a name for Baby Smith. Cohen Landon Smith should be greeting this world in December, and we're so excited to meet him! The baby shower plans are underway, and I thought I'd give you a sneak peak of some of the ideas I'd like to use. Images via Emmaline Bride , Hello Naomi , Country Living, Style Me Pretty Oh, and here's an update on his nursery :) {click to enlarge}

We don't find out the sex of baby Smith until the end of July, so all of my pre-baby shower planning has to work for both sexes.  As I mentioned last Wednesday , the color palettes for both will be very similar with the exception of one color substitution. Both color palettes are soft and muted, but still have enough presence to make a statement.  Here's what I'm thinking for a little girl- gray, salmon pink, white and pea green. For a little boy, it will be gray, slate blue, white and pea green.  We'll see if I actually stick to these colors, come October, but this is the plan! There are so many decisions to make when it comes to planning the shower, and my indecisive self will be asking all of you for your opinions on certain things.  I suppose it's not a bad thing to have so much inspiration that it's hard to chose, though! I've already started piling up my inspiration files and writing out my to do lists.  I even created a PowerPoint and listed all...