j's faux shower

A few months ago, a good friend of ours visited from DC and decided to throw J a faux-bridal shower because she won't be able to make it to the real shower and wedding. Planning this faux-shower was accomplished remotely with W from DC and M and I from Boston. We had the aid of Google Docs for logistical detail spread-sheeting and Google Wave for sharing inspiration boards and getting everyone's comments in before making decisions! Online share sites are the way to go with event planning among multiple people. 

Now on to the faux-shower! Our theme was Fondue and

and Yellow and Orange DOTS. Since this was a surprise shower, we weren't able to tell J to cancel her dinner plans, so we tried to make our party light and dessert like... but as you can tell, we planned a full meal. J two dinners that night that's fo-sure!

The first couple of times I made letter signs, I ran out of letters or had the letters flip upside down whenever someone walked by and exposed the white backside. This time, I learned and printed double sided! Twice the amount of letters making them 3D and okay to be seen on all sides!

The dot banner was a new creation, and after making them, I realized printing double the circles to hide the ribbon would make it look even better. I have a huge spool of fishing wire that I wasn't able to to locate for this event, but I suppose that would be a good solution too.

Now J was at a dinner that was roughly about 2 hours long... in that time we decorated the place, prep-ed all the food and W baked this Chinese Cake in like 45 min! yup! You got that right! Chinatown Chinese Cake in 45 min! And Tasted fabulous!

M also made her famous mango pudding! Every party has to have multiple desserts!

And finally, to end the night, a party favor and activity....

Fabric? Fleece? Yup! Tie-Blankets... One for each of us! :)

And that concludes are wonderful faux-shower! Thanks to W and M for joining me in putting this faux-shower together! I had fun, that's fo-sure! =P