17 Feb Sat 1pm-3pm
Gray's Residence: Baby Shower
I attended a baby shower of a church friend. She's about the same age as me, almost due to deliver a baby girl. It was an enjoyable experience.
The host's house was very beautiful. Very different from the IN culture of home decor in Singapore now. In SIngapore it is clean and sleek designs and looks, many Zen-like in approach. But over here, most houses have a lot of ornaments, country-style with fireplace or Victorian. And their furniture would usually be large, solid, heavy-set kind, those that can last for centuries and be passed down generations?
So it's a different kind of beauty. The houses of my Singaporean friends are beautiful too but it is different over here and so I find visiting people a very interesting and enjoyable experience because I get to see many different decors and things.
There was such a pretty cake with a teddy bear. And trust me, it was simply yummy.
I took a pic with the mom-to-be at the fireplace, with the presents. I realise the way I wrap presents pale in comparison to the others so I placed mine behind everything. hee. I gave her a board book by Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which both my sons love too. She had it as one of the items on her baby gift registry. Some presents even had 3D pop up pins or tags on them, or a bracelet with beads spelling Baby... very sweet, very girly and very pretty.
I felt like trying for a daughter when I saw all those irresistably adorable pink dresses and girly stuff! Anyway what happened after all the eating was, the VIP will open all her presents and there's someone who will record everything (see above, the lady with a book). FOr scrapbooking purposes.
That's her mom-in-law beside her. Her mom-in-law drove all the way here from Colorado to be at this baby shower and her gifts were self-made dresses for the baby! The dresses were Victorian style, with smocking, embroidery, lace and such! I was so impressed! I wonder if I could do that for my granddaughter! It was her first grandchild, this baby girl.
Then the opened gifts will be passed around to all of us to admire. So the other pic shows the other ladies admiring some gifts. They happen to be sitting in front of a huge plasma TV screen? DH thought it was a blackboard when he saw the photo, so I better clarify. hee.
It was very fun and I got to hear all the chatter and gossip after the gift-admiration process too. Hadn't had such kind of activity since I came to Utah, cos been facing kids mainly! :-)
