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Mommy Calling Cards are Great for Making New Friends for You and Baby

Mommy Calling Cards are Great for Making New Friends for You and Baby

How many times have you met a mom at the playground and started a conversation, then walked away, thinking, I should have given her my phone number for a future play date? Here’s the solution: Mommy Calling Cards.

A Perfect ‘Pear’ Baby Shower for the Perfect ‘Pair’ of Twins

A Perfect ‘Pear’ Baby Shower for the Perfect ‘Pair’ of Twins

I want to have a ‘pear’ themed baby shower.” Talk about original! Green is such a great color for a shower, and it’s a great way to incorporate some femininity in a room full of women celebrating boys. Pear green is between lime green and a more mossy color green, making it a hue that works really well with a variety of complimentary colors including teal, yellow, pink, red and brown. After finding this beautiful table setting, we were off and running with ideas for a fruity affair for the perfect ‘pair’!

Yellow and Black Baby Shower for a Mommy to Bee

Yellow and Black Baby Shower for a Mommy to Bee

It’s not a ‘bee’ baby shower mosaic, it’s a ‘Mommy to Bee’ or ‘Baby to Bee’ baby shower mosaic! The yellow and black color combination at once suggests bumble bee, and it can be done easily and a chic way while keeping the fun in the day.

Damask Black and White Baby Shower Inspiration

Damask Black and White Baby Shower Inspiration

Going the extra mile to spruce up your tables can have a big visual impact at your baby shower. Using nontraditional patterns such as black and white damask will leave your guests in awe. Google defines damask as “A rich silk fabric woven with elaborate designs and figures, produced by complicated weaving, often of a variety of colors.” When you think of the swirly pattern, you may think Grandma’s boring kitchen table linens or ugly floral patterns…or just plain old…old! But think again, because damask is back! From the runway-ready clothing and accessories to the latest couture table settings, the Damask pattern has reinvented itself and is a fabulous way to accent tables…or anything for the matter in a unique and visually stimulating way! It says “elegant” “vintage” and “ultra-modern” simultaneously.

Lilly Pulitzer Puts Her Colorful Stamp on Baby Stationery

Lilly Pulitzer Puts Her Colorful Stamp on Baby Stationery

It all started with a juice stand, which prompted the inimitable Lilly Pulitzer to come up with a dress that would camouflage her fruit stains. The resulting sleeveless shift, with its colorful patterns was not only perfect, it was instantly the most charming item in her wardrobe. Everybody loved Lilly’s dresses. So much so, she stopped selling juice and started selling her dresses. Now, 50 years later, Lilly Pulitzer celebrates her Jubilee Year. And we applaud the adverturous sorts who assume the Palm Beach pedigree, no matter where they live. And, now there is stationery to go with a colorful life. Go throw a color soaked party on your behalf!<

Baby Shower Invitations that Match Your Shower Cupcake Dessert

Baby Shower Invitations that Match Your Shower Cupcake Dessert

What’s the best part about any party? Dessert of course! Baby showers are no different and the most popular dessert at showers in 2009 are cupcakes. Themed baby showers means coordinating your cupcakes along with your decor, favors, colors, and of course invitations. One of our favorite pastry designers, Pink Cake Box serves as cupcake creator to the tasty bite-size treats below. See how easy it is to tie together a baby shower theme from invitation beginning to dessert ending.

Breakfast at Tiffany & Co. Inspired Baby Shower

Breakfast at Tiffany & Co. Inspired Baby Shower

We put together this Tiffany & Company baby shower inspiration mosaic for her. There’s no such thing as a woman who doesn’t get giddy at seeing a Robin’s Egg blue box—the smaller the better! For a Tiffany & Co. inspired affair, the ambiance of understated elegance and grace can be recreated with party décor, food, and favors in touches of that iconic shade of blue. It’s perfect for a baby boy-to-be or a mom with timeless style. We think we hear Moon River playing now!

Holiday Greeting Cards to Benefit Operation Gratitude

When you purchase Holiday themed merchandise totaling $50 or more, from FineStationery.com before the New Year, Fine Stationery will donate stationery to Operation Gratitude to be included in care packages for U.S. soldiers deployed overseas. Operation Gratitude is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization that annually sends 100,000+ care packages addressed to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed in hostile regions such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and on military ships at sea. Its mission is to lift morale, bring a smile to a service member’s face and to express to all troops the appreciation and support of the American people. Since its inception in March 2003, Operation Gratitude has shipped more than 350,000 packages to American troops deployed overseas.