{"id":350,"date":"2010-06-14T06:16:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodiddy.wordpress.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2010-06-14T06:16:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:16:12","slug":"oompa-loompa-doompadee-doo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodiddy.com\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Oompa Loompa doompadee doo…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was invited to the most creative baby shower I’ve ever attended. My girlfriend’s mother owns an event planning company and wow, just wow! Super cute Willy Wonka theme, adorable for a kid’s birthday party… or heck, adults love the movie too! (Tom C. I’m looking right at you)<\/p>\n

I knew I wanted to take photos, so I made sure the battery on my camera was charged. I had not planned on leaving the freakin’ thing in the charger at home, whoops! I ended up using my iPhone camera, which sort of sucks – I have the second generation iPhone – the third made improvements and I can’t wait for the one available for pre-order\u00a0tomorrow. (Dan’s birthday present to me – woohoo!) o.k… major tangent. Back to the baby shower.<\/p>\n

The invitations included a “Golden Ticket” – they used a Willy Wonka font –\u00a0The attention to detail was insane.<\/p>\n

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“In your wildest dreams you cannot imagine the marvelous surprises that await you”<\/em> – love that!<\/p>\n

When I got to the baby shower, I noticed the signage right away. They also had a silk ribbon wrapped pole with a Willy Wonka sign hanging from that, I didn’t even\u00a0 begin to capture all of the details.<\/p>\n

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The venue was a garden patio filled with oversized candy and lollipops. You entered the shower through an archway of candy delight.<\/p>\n

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The garland was super cute – cellophane wrapped around colored balloons with ribbon ties to separate the “candies” – super fun!<\/p>\n

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The centerpieces were genius! Plastic paint buckets with vibrant\u00a0colored polka dots. They were\u00a0filled with colored tissue surrounding floral foam. The buckets were stuffed with Willy Wonka\u00a0candy – freakin’ adorable. I got all Martha Stewart\u00a0and really investigated. They had the candy hot glued onto plastic flower picks – all boxes were empty, except the\u00a0Wonka bars, Sprees, Sweetarts\u00a0and Nerds Ropes. Loose\u00a0Gobstopper and Spree candies filled the tops of the buckets where the stems came out. Dammit for forgetting my dang camera battery! The below photo doesn’t do the centerpiece justice.<\/p>\n

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The orange umbrellas cast a really warm glow throughout the tables. The whole thing was pretty magical – everyone at my table kept chatting about it and how they were going to use\/borrow\/steal the idea\u00a0for their kid’s upcoming\u00a0birthday parties.<\/p>\n

Everyone said that the food was delicious. The sit down menu included four kinds of cr\u00eapes. A spicy avocado, a broccoli, mushroom and gouda, a ham and swiss cheese and then a super rich one – fresh strawberries topped with toasted almonds, vanilla ice cream, whipped cream or frozen yogurt. Yum!\u00a0 – Because of the stomach stuff, I wasn’t able to eat any of the menu selections. I did have a few pieces of\u00a0croissant and water. Woohoo!<\/p>\n

Even though I wasn’t feeling well, I had a great time visiting with friends I hadn’t seen in a while. I stayed for the entire shower and left with my favor in hand.<\/p>\n

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I actually had another baby shower to go to in the afternoon. I hopped in the car and met Dan\u00a0for the co-ed baby\u00a0shower #2. Had a great time at that one too – it was in a gorgeous private home – they had a onesie painting activity and I had a blast doing that. While I painted, the guy in charge of the BBQ hooked me up. He put a piece of cheese on a plain bun and I had an instant BBQ’d grilled cheese – plain and perfect for my situation!<\/p>\n

The menu at\u00a0the second baby shower\u00a0included BBQ’d burgers and gardenburgers, a really earthy mixed green salad, a platter of brilliant red and yellow tomatoes, a potato salad and carrot cake for dessert. I can’t wait until my body is back to enjoying food. This has been too weird. No cravings, no appetite… nothing!<\/p>\n

The\u00a0medical mystery stuff aside, I’m glad that I’ve been able to enjoy myself doing things – just upset that this has gone on for so long.<\/p>\n

Enough of that, cheers to both of our friends with delivery dates coming up soon. May they both have healthy\u00a0babies and may their hearts be filled with lots of love.
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I was invited to the most creative baby shower I’ve ever attended. My girlfriend’s mother owns an event planning company and wow, just wow! Super cute Willy Wonka theme, adorable for a kid’s birthday party… or heck, adults love the movie too! (Tom C. I’m looking right at you) I knew I wanted to take … <\/p>\n

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