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Monday, September 24, 2012

I Heart Pinterest

This past weekend my friend Kiley and I together hosted a wedding shower for our friend, Sydney.  We've known about it for awhile, so I was able to put my pinning to good use and make a couple projects/gifts for her and I'm pretty proud of them if I do say so myself. :)

First up was this name sign.  Sooo incredibly easy.  I 'sic'ed Chad to find the wood and he was able to nab a piece of already-cut scrap wood at Menard's.  Win win.  I wish I would have done the main board the wine color and the frames white, but I guess I'll know for next time.

 
Next up was the towel cake.  I've seen gobs and gobs of diaper cakes in my day, but it wasn't until a friend made a towel cake for a wedding shower that I got the idea.  I began looking up the concept on Pinterest and saw a couple ideas.  The one I was going to tackle used THIRTY kitchen towels.  Who ever needs 30 kitchen towels?  So I decided to go to the Google king and I found this gem.  We didn't necesarily have a "theme" to the shower, so I used the bath towels and decorated it with kitchen utensils.
 
 
I attached the flowers with ordinary ol' sewing pins.  I wasn't sure how to go about keeping the entire thing together until a lightbulb went off:  a paper towel holder.  And it worked like a charm!
 
Lastly, we made truffles of which I made these wonderful Cake Batter Truffles.  I made the mistake of making them ahead of time, freezing them, then thawing on the counter so they cracked.  Boooo.  Either way, they were absolutely heaven-ish.  Kiley made the peanut butter and oreo truffles which were also to die for.  I guess you just can't go wrong with a truffle, am I right or am I right?!
 
 
Here's Sydney modeling her towel cake.
 

And her with us!  It had been awhile since I had been a part of a wedding shower (too many babies these days) and can't wait for the wedding NEXT weekend, woohoo! 



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