Where's the party, I want to free my soul,where's the party, I want to lose control

I would say the shower was a success. Everyone seemed to have a good time and loved the food. Luckily I had a lot of help and encouragement around because I ended up making well over 100 cupcakes. The mom2be was happy, the family and guests were happy - everything went smoothly thank goodness.

Here's a list of everything on the menu, for the this mid-afternoon of sweets and treats...

• Cheese and crackers
• vegetables and dip
• fruit
• bocconcini + tomato skewers
• cereal + milk bar
• ice cream jell-o
• Red Velvet cupcakes with Mascarpone frosting
• Chocolate Ganache cupcakes with Vanilla Sea Salt
• Brown Sugar cupcakes with Cinnamon Vanilla Buttercream ('Babies')
  
• White Velvet cupcakes with Mascarpone + Dried Pineapple Flowers

I'm not crazy. I didn't go in there full throttle without testing those recipes first. I invited the mom2be's family over the day before and made them taste 8 different flavors of cupcakes that I had made. The mom said she had a good time and that I should charge people to come over and taste test. That'd be hilarious. 'HERE. EAT THIS.'

Of all the cupcakes at the party, the red velvet went in about 10 seconds, so that was the clear winner right there. Everything went as planned, I think a lot of it had to do with my habit of sketching EVERYTHING. How I want the food to look, the tables, the layout, all of it. It really helped things run smoothly. I draw a lot of pictures of food. Yeah, I'm weird.

There were no migraines, stresses or spur of the moment nightmares. I even painted a few baby shirts for a last minute decoration - 30 minutes before the shower, so I guess that means I'm getting the hang of this gig. Most of all, I had a lot of fun planning it all.

This shower ended up being way too easy to do. This can't be good for my future, given my habit of overdoing things. Luckily no one else is asking for my party throwing services...yet.
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And now the important stuff, the winner!
By random integer generator, congrats...Heidi!
And since I had an extra gumball machine, I pullled one name for a second place prize...Gerta! Email me with your addresses! Congrats and thanks as always (to everyone!), for reading!