This weekend with the help of my friend Nikki, I had fun throwing a baby shower for our sweet friend, Jenna.
Jenna is the loveliest girl and has the sweetest heart! God has given her a special heart for children who are in Foster Care and she is involved with the adoption/orphans/foster care ministry at our church. Jenna is having her second baby girl in a few weeks.
We held the shower on Friday evening & the theme I had in mind was a garden party. I saw a really cool centerpiece in the Phyllis Hoffman's Celebrations magazine (that I won at The Blessed Nest's a couple ofmonths ago!) The mossy centerpiece in the magazine inspired my ideas for the party. When I asked Jenna what her nursery colors are, she said aqua, & green! I love those colors together & thought they would be perfect for the shower with splashes of raspberry pink! I also have been seeing those large tissue paper pom poms everywhere lately & wanted to try my hand at making those. They were fun & easy to make! I originally planned to suspend them from the ceiling, but honestly ran out of time...so I lined them up in our large bay window & they looked rather festive there!

The centerpiece is living moss that Jeff bought at a local nursery. It was a bit messy to deal with as it comes in a flat with a lot of dirt & I basically had to rip half of the dirt & roots away with my bare hands.
Once inside, I lined the area I planned to cover on my table with a large garbage bag folded to the correct size. I then arranged the moss on top of the bag. The picture I had seen in the magazine had irregular edges, but I went for the clean lines of a rectangle. It seemed to work best on my long rectangular table. I would have taken pictures as I was going along, but I was running out of time & my hands were WAY too dirty to hold the camera!
After getting the moss all settled, I added in cut flowers & greenery. I used lots of blossoms off of a hydrangea that Jeff had at his shop. I also used a few purchased bouquets of flowers, too.
While looking for something else in our storage room, I saw the bin labeled "decorative marbles & rocks," so I grabbed a few bags of the smooth stone rocks to use as accents. I also used them as a border all the way around the moss to hide any dirt or exposed areas of the garbage bag.
I have to say that I was very pleased with how it all turned out! And even more thankful that I didn't see one bug crawling across the table the entire evening! With live plants, you just never know, but I was watching closely!
Oh, have you noticed we had a little bit of food on the table, too! Nikki made some yummy cucumber sandwiches & her famously delicious Devonshire Tidbits. She also brought a cheese & cracker tray. Thank you Nikki! 
I put out assorted nuts; grapes; watermelon cut in flower shapes; strawberries, peaches & banana right beside the warm chocolate fudge; steamed asparagus wrapped in cream cheese & ham; creme puffs; lobster dip & a spinach artichoke dip with multigrain chips; deli spirals; mini quiches & Edamame. 

Okay, I will show you the cake now because even though we had lots of food, we still needed cake!