The excitement just keeps going around here!  Last week, we introduced our new wedding favors for 2011, and this week it’s baby’s time to shine.  I must say that our newest baby shower favors are edible and incredible! Welcoming baby with sleek new packaging and delicious treats, they’ll have you—and your guests—saying “oh, baby!”

Updating our popular Nest Egg scented soap favor with a brand-new, see-through box, guests can immediately appreciate the beauty of the pink or blue egg resting on the lifelike nest in this charming display box.  Swirled with coordinating color, baby carriages, birds, nests, eggs and trees are waiting to be discovered in the intricate Toile design.  Such a lovely presentation complete with ribbon and “For You” card, it’s ready to be placed in the guest bath—or your own!

Everyone may be chirping about our nest egg favor, but the heavens will be rejoicing over your new little star—and this celebratory favor!  A useful gift your guests will appreciate, they’ll love the sleek new style of this popular chrome bottle stopper and the updated packaging in yellow and white.  Redesigned inside and out, it twinkles the good news to your guests that “A Star Is Born. “

Although these two “pops” have delightfully different styles, they both are a delicious way to celebrate baby and thank your guests.  The first favor to “pop” on the scene is our “About To Pop” microwave popcorn in classic pink or blue.  Personalized with a coordinating label, guests will enjoy snacking on this fun little favor, for sure!

And, you know we’re just popping with excitement over our new lollipop favors.  We loved them so much as wedding favors that we just had to include them in our baby collection, too!  Dressed with a satin bow and swirled with pink and white for girls and blue and white for boys, they’re ready to add a little sweetness to your celebration or can be handed out as birth announcements, like cigars.  Simply personalize them with your choice of design to make this vanilla swirl lollipop a real treat!

Well, there you have it…our pride and joy for this year’s baby collection!  And, just like any proud parent, we could never choose a favorite over the other—we love them all!  So, be sure to leave a comment let us know which one you like best.

Happy Planning!

You can always tell when new favors are about to hit the runway here at Kate Aspen. There’s an electrifying flurry of activity when we know the latest designs have shifted all the way from sketches to showtime!

Brides, you ask—and Kate answers! With our trendsetting, new “Simply Elegant” collection, you now have a choice of packaging at two different price points for our most popular favors—the Heart Chrome Bottle Stopper and “Love Beyond Measure” Heart-Shaped Measuring Spoons—and those are just the beginning. The “Simply Elegant” gift box complements virtually any wedding palette or style at a price you can’t resist!

We have fall and winter weddings beautifully favored with the lovely, lifelike “Falling for You” Scented Pine Cone Candle, a picturesque “Scenic View” Tree Branch Photo Frame and the wintry, wonderful “Winter Dreams” Laser-Cut Snowflake Favor Box.

If music has special meaning in your life, let our “Timeless Duet” Brushed-Metal Openwork Bookmark tell the story.

And the “Oh, So Sweet!” in the post’s title? You guessed it! Kate Aspen’s latest edible favor is a wedding-white, vanilla-swirl, personalized lollipop. The story here is all the label design choices you’ll have, more than enough to coordinate with your theme or color scheme!

We’d love to know what you think about our just-launched, little gifts, so comment ‘til your heart’s content!  Meanwhile, those of you shopping for baby shower favors should totally look forward to next week’s post! There’s something oh, so sweet coming your way, too! Until then…

Happy Planning!

Now, don’t get me wrong, the royal wedding was simply beautiful.  Her dress, his charm, the way they blushed on the balcony after their first kiss—it was all too cute for words.  Captivating us from the announcement of their engagement, we’ve been dining on details of the wedding from the very moment she said, “Yes!”  It makes you wonder, what will we do now that William and Kate’s wedding is a not-so-distant memory?  Well, we’ve got a few ideas…

Give yourself the Royal Treatment!

One way to keep the royal celebration going is by giving yourself the royal treatment!  A relaxing massage, soothing bath or afternoon at the spa would make any girl feel like a princess.  And after all the hard work you put in following the royal wedding and getting up in the wee hours of the morning to watch the day unfold from beginning to end—you deserve it!

Get back to the business of planning your own wedding!

The royal wedding should have given you plenty of inspiration for your own walk down the aisle.  So now that it’s over, focus on the things you loved the most and see how you can incorporate them into your special day.  Whether it was her flowing gown, the horse-drawn carriage that carried them away from the ceremony or choosing custom wedding favors for their guests, you too can feel like a princess bride with William and Kate’s wedding ideas.  Let us know which ones you might include.  I’d love to write about them!

Start shopping for baby shower favors!

If you’re anything like the royal family, who has a history of having their first child within a year of getting married, you might just find yourself welcoming a new baby in the near future.  After all, William was born barely 11 months after his Prince Charles and Diana married in 1981.  And Charles himself was born almost exactly a year after Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip married in 1947.  Jump on the baby bandwagon and check out our collection of adorable baby shower favors.  From “Born to be Wild” to “Cute as a Button,” you’ll find a theme that is perfect for your little prince or princess.

Happy Planning!