The deats. on Uzma's Build-A-Library baby shower - Slice of Lemon

Posted on October 10, 2012
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I?ve been getting a lot of questions about my sister?s baby shower so I thought it would be much more productive to post about it!

As a writer myself and the daughter(s) of a Language Arts teacher Uzma and I grew up with a genuine appreciation for books. We had a bookshelf in our basement overflowing with some of our childhood favorites and in recent years I?ve started to feel like books might someday become obsolete. I get that it?s cute to see a baby on YouTube try and swipe her finger across the page of a magazine and then get all THIS THING IS BROKEN! but I think it?s also kind of sad; everything for babies and toddlers is electronic now.

(Don?t even get me started on the TVs stuck in the headrests of cars over the last 10 years! Seriously that?s a soap box I?ll need landing gear to come down from!)

So when I started planning my sister?s baby shower I immediately knew that Uzma would want her little one to know what it feels like to put a crease in a story from his or her Little Golden Books collections. She?d want them to know what the real paper pages smell like and use their little fingers to turn those pages in excitement during a bedtime story.

I did a Google search for book themed baby showers and decided on a Build-A-Library theme where I asked guests to bring their favorite childhood books to help build a library for Uzma and BIL?s future bookworm. And then I knew we needed a mascot so I came up with Baxter! And yes bookworms have arms. To hold books, duh!

I put him on the invitations I designed.

Each guest also got a card to sign and put in the baby?s book. Fill in the baby?s last name where I blurred (i.e. BABY SMITH, BABY JOHNSON, etc.) and don?t forget to write your name! Of course if you already named your baby the card could say BABY KIMMY instead of using the baby?s last name.

Guests also got a card letting them know that babies were invited and what the dress code was!

I also put Baxter on thank you cards I made and printed for Uzma to send out after the shower and Baxter also made an appearance on the cupcakes I ordered from Margo Lewis? boutique Cake Bliss in Brooklyn!

A quick note about Cake Bliss: ALL their cupcakes are vegetarian! As in NO ANIMAL LARD is used in any of their cupcakes! They also have a vegan chocolate option if you prefer no animal byproducts whatsoever. We ordered coconut cucumber, red velvet and vegan chocolate; all 3 varieties were delicious!

I ordered envelopes for the invites and thank you cards from Action Envelope (they have incredible customer service and a huge selection!) but another option is to send your invitation as an Evite to save a few bucks and stamps.

So that?s the story behind the little worm and the books at the shower! Thank you guys for showing so much interest in this lovely event and exciting time in our lives. I?m sure at some point Uzma?s little one will get something electronic that?s super cool (that I?ll totally want to borrow), but until that time comes he or she will have an awesome library filled to the brim with love and memorable classics.

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