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Friday, January 13, 2017

Orange You Glad I'm 8: Isabella's Baptism


Over the holidays my little Isabella celebrated her 8th birthday and had her
baptism. She loves all things orange and so we used orange balloons in the
pictures she had taken by my good friend Syl Galloway. They matched the orange
ends of her hair very nicely. So, when we were deciding what to do for her
baptism, we thought it would be fun to use the theme "Orange You Glad I'm 8".


I made her invitations in Photoshop using the pictures that Syl took of her in
November. It was fun to use the accents of orange to match the balloons. It was
fun to see her spunky personality come out in the photos and on the invitation.


On her baptism day she wore the same white dress that my youngest sister wore
on her baptism day. It's a beautiful Hawaiian dress and I loved that she got
to share in the tradition of using the same dress just like my niece did. And I
love it so much more than the jumpsuits that are usually worn.


Her hair was my favorite! I wanted something that we could do before and it
would survive the dunk of the baptism. I didn't want her to look like a drowned
rat after, but I also didn't want to spend the time drying and styling it. When I
found this Rope Twisted Pinwheel Bun from Cute Girl Hairstyles, I knew it
would be perfect. It took me about 45 minutes to do. The CGH lady said like
15 minutes, but she's more adept with hair twisting than I am!

I love how the orange peaks out every once in a while and adds a little bit of her
orange-loving personality to her hairstyle. It weathered the baptism perfectly
and her hair looked quite lovely the entire rest of the day.


It's tradition for my parents to give a white baptism towel as a gift, but she was
so busy with the amazing quilt she was making, I ordered one on Etsy this time.
I was pleased to find HuckleberryStew! She had quick turn around time and I
could choose an orange CTR shield the towel in addition to her name and
baptism date.


I also made her a guest book for friends and family to write her a note so she
could have a record of all the wonderful people that came to celebrate with her. I
used the photos that Syl took and had the book printed by Shutterfly. It was a
good way to also let Isabella have her pictures from shoot with Sylvia all together
and be able to look at them whenever she wants to remember her special day.


We served light refreshments after the baptism - or course with an orange
theme! I made number eight sugar cookies and my sister and I frosted them
with orange buttercream frosting. I was going to frost them with royal frosting,
but Isabella informed me that it wasn't her favorite and so we changed plans.
We also had orange lollipops, orange Airheads, orange licorice, Cuties and
white powdered donuts. I made cute wraps for the water bottles that
said "Orange You Glad I'm 8!"


And do you see the quilt?! I asked my mom 3 years ago when JT got baptized if
she would make Isabella a baptism quilt. When she came to visit this summer
we worked together to make a rough sketch of what I was thinking and what
Isabella would like. It turned out even more beautiful that I could have imagined.
I will share more pictures of it later along with more pictures of her dress!

1 comments:

Heidi said...

So cute! She is a doll and I love the theme. Too bad I am done with girls.

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