Baby Shower Folly

Happy Sunday my friends. Although I have been away from blog~land...my heart was always near. Spring is always like this...gardening overload, cleaning overload, volunteering overload, ambition overload...something has to give...sadly time with my blog was the victim of my not~enough~time~ness.

I wrote a lot of posts....just didn't have the time to actually post the posts written in my mind. So yesterday became my no excuse day...even though I was once again a busy little bee I made sure I took photos...cha, cha, cha! {Chris, my friend, those cha, cha's are for you} and more importantly...I am posting.

I wanted to share a baby shower gift I have given a couple of times and always is a crowd pleaser and, I might add, ton~of~fun to put together.

First go to Target or a shop where they have cute~ola baby shoes and purchase a whole bunch....if they are well priced it will be hard to stop...then head on home and let the folly begin!

I will let my pictures speak for themselves ~

Here is my little shoe poem I wrote to go with the gift...

I took a basket and painted it the color I wanted and put some paper shred in the bottom.

Here comes the folly part...put the shoes in cellophane bags and add tags with frolicking suggestions for those shoes...

Take a peek~a~roonie...

Shoes for Sweet Dreaming...

Oh my good golly....bunny slippers...how could I resist...

If you can't beat 'em...join 'em...we live in Oregon...I'm just saying ~

CUTE!

Twirling shoes...

Be still my heart...

A very important activity...teach them early...

Gotta love daisys!

But of course...

Do these come in my size?

I put paper shred in the bottom of each cellophane bag and added some fake~ola flowers...just pulled the buds of the stems...

Gently pile them in your basket...

I curled the tags around a pencil...for extra flair...

Bits of ribbon and tulle and scrapbook paper...folly extraordinaire...

Added a butterfly...

Glued the shoe poem to some Amy Butler paper and rolled it up, tied it snug as a bug and tucked it in and yes, I sealed it with a kiss...

Glued more buds to the tulle and went on my merry way to the shower!

It was a wonderful afternoon...sitting in one place...not running all over the town like a crazy girl...Bliss! Good food, good company and a precious new life anticipated.

And I learned something...I need to jump in more puddles, remember to have more sweet dreams, stop to smell more roses and by all means...do more yippee~ki~yaying!

Have a folly filled week!

Smiles ~ Ramona