Have you ever seen Totoro? Do you know who he is?
I have to say I never have and when my girl friend, Lynn, asked me to help her create some things for a baby shower she was planning I had to ask her more than once, "WHAT is that?". But now I know and if you already knew, I am so sorry I missed the Totoro train! But look at our creations and you might forgive me.
This is a little book is for Haiku poems for the baby. At the shower they passed out a piece of paper from the book and each person pulled out a Haiku prompt from a jar. Then they wrote a poem for the baby. All the pages were then put back in the book. I like to picture the Mom rocking her sweet baby reading her poems from this book.
Look, we even sponged leaves on the pages.
Of course we had to make a banner!
If you are wondering where we got our Totoro, I cut it with my electronic die cutting machine, after finding the image on line. The acorns were cut the same way. He really is so dang cute.
This picture is just so I can so off my carpet...
It's even more fabulous on your feet. I highly recommend memory foam padding!
Back to the baby shower. This little mobile was one of the things my friend Lynn asked me to make after seeing something similar on the www, it ended up being the perfect thing to hang on the door at the shower. The little black things are called "Soot Sprites", and that's all I know about that. We also made food placement cards, which I failed to take pictures of. Darn it.
But here's another AMAZING creation for this party, the cake. Another friend of ours, Carolyn, her daughter made this cake. Katie is just 15 years old! We are always blown away at her talent when we see her cakes. She also made 4 dozen Soot Sprite cupcakes! It was a rather large baby shower. I wish my talents translated into frosting but they don't, that's why there's Katie. Thank you Katie for being there for us fondant and frosting challenged friends!
I loved learning something new, who Totoro is, but mostly I had a blast getting together with friends and creating cute things. We laughed and had a great time. That's what I love about paper crafting, it brings people together.
Please let me know if you having questions about Totoro. Thanks for taking time to visit my blog, feel free to leave a comment or question below.
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