Mrs. Penguin, Sacramento
Age and Occupation: 26, Video & TV Producer/Director/Editor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Doctor of Physical Therapy
Engagement Date: January 29, 2007
Wedding Date: June 7, 2008
Blogging Since: September 14, 2007
Venue: Winery in the Gold Country
About Me: I'm a silly mess of a girl who, above all else in this world, LOVES the Spice Girls. I eat sushi at least 3 times a week, and feel guilty about how much it costs the other 4 days a week. I love designer jeans and cheap accessories. I don't like sweets, but I love the UCLA Bruins!
Shower Favors For The Young’uns
May 7th, 2008 @ 1:47 pm by Mrs. Penguin
Never one to arrive empty handed when kids are involved, I showed up to my shower fully armed with 15 pounds of candy and some other goodies for the young girls to take home. I actively participate in bribery on a regular basis. What can I say… what I lack in child interaction skills I make up for in buying a lot of candy. The dilemma was that the ages ranged from 2-16, and I didn’t have time to run around town buying individual gifts. Also, if you don’t give everyone the same thing, it might be a little unfair, and I wanted to avoid that too. So here’s what I came up with:
Inside each was a mini photo album, a Lip Smacker in a favor cone, a polka-dot Chinese takeout box full of candy, and some custom “princess” style cards that I made for each girl.
The stationery cards were super easy to make. I had some leftover 8.5×11 Cover Weight paper, so I cut them in half and printed out an image with each girl’s name on the card. They were a big hit, and super quick to make!
Using the same image from the stationery, I printed their names onto sparkly pink paper and taped each to a white gift bag. I added little paper flowers and some pink tisssue and thats about it!
Each bag cost around $7 to make with all the goodies inside. I think the girls loved them!
Did you give out favors at your shower or did you leave it up to the hosts?
16 Responses to “Shower Favors For The Young’uns”
Oh my god! Gorgeous! Did you just print out that stationary with a regular printer? Where did you get the template??
Hi. I’ll take a box full of candy too. Thanks.
Peng you never cease to amaze with your creativity! So so thoughtful, I’m impressed 
Where did you get that template, it’s beautiful! And I love the idea!
Those are so cute! I love the font on the stationary cards. Did you have them hand calligraphered? Is it a special font?
@LaborDayBride: I just used a plain old inkjet printer! I printed them out in Grey, so they look a little fancier than straight black.
The border image is from here, its $5 from istockphoto.com:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/4061151_frame.php?id=4061151
@Lillindy: from Istock! See link above
@MM: Not hand calligraphy! Its actually the font “Feel Script,” you can find it here:
http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=UMT0000300
Thank you! Thank you! Maybe even DIY-challenged me can pull this off!
You are awesome– officially cool Aunt Pengy Even at 26, I would totally love a gift bag like that. Dr. Pepper Lip Smackers is the best
Cute gift! I love the cards.
I have offerred to buy the favors for my wedding shower as a thank you to my hosts, and 2 of my 3 hosts (mom and grandma) are so traditional they can’t stop reminding me that I “should not!” have done that! My third host, my sister, totally understands though. Anyway, the idea of receiving a shower is so overwhelming, how can I not try to give back somehow… you obviously understand that. 
Are you doing/gifting anything for the kids at the actual wedding? I’m currently brainstorming about that.
wow that is amazing! I love the cards. but the “feel script” is $99! did you already have that or is there a cheaper way to get it?
@Marie: Yeah, I already had it 
But there are a lot of cool free fonts at dafont.com that you can check out! Perhaps there are similar ones there!
thanks! you are amazing. I am getting (stealing) so many great ideas from you!!!
Genius! Will you please design/assemble my OOT bags when the time comes?
Great favors Miss P! I bought the favors for my two showers and my bachelorette party because I viewed it as my “thank you” for my guests/friends showering me with gifts. I know it can be super expensive to attend a bachelorette party out of state, a shower, and a wedding within months of each other and it was my way of giving a token of thanks….I gave L’occitane gift bags (purchased on sale! that went with my bee theme), designer cookies, and manicure sets.
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