Bottle Pop Parties: Butterfly Baby Shower

Murphy's Law is the law of the land around my house. No matter how much planning I do for an event, no matter how many times I check and double check my lists, there's always a snag. This butterfly themed baby shower was simple enough. Good food, a purple in real life sangria (made with Hypnotiq Harmonie and determined delicious), a few butterflies flitting around the place and we were good to go.

I had heard that the mama to be didn't have the butterfly themed nursery finished yet so my idea to use a b-fly mobile for decor then transition it to the nursh was well received. I picked the prettiest one on etsy and placed my order. I was assured that it would arrive in plenty of time for the shower and was sent the tracking number that week. I tracked and tracked and watched it arrive in Philly. Then stop. It sat there for 7 days before it made it's way 30 minutes outside of the city. Unacceptable. It actually arrived the morning of the shower but it was too late. I had went out the night before for all of the supplies and got cracking.

3 hours and a billion paper butterflies later, it was complete. And I loved it. Maybe a smidge better than the one I ordered. Oh who am I kidding? I knew I could do a better job, I just didn't feel like doing it myself. But I should have known. Either way, the guest of honor loved it and no one knew any better.

I snapped this terrible pic on my phone and am kicking myself because I thought I got more shots of it hanging in the home. I just got the one above, in the middle. It was pretty darn cute though.

Aren't those purple butterflies on the cake adorbs? I had ordered them from etsy and sent them to my bakery and they were nice enough to add them to the gigantic carrot cake we ordered. So even though we didn't go crazy with the decor, the cake and the mobile seemed to impress people just fine. Sometimes not going overboard is a-ok with me.