A Sweet and Sophisticated Woodland Forest Baby Shower For a Beloved Colleague

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When Martha Stewart Living editors get together to fete one of their own, you know it's not only going to be a beautiful party, but one filled with tiny details we'll be drooling over. That's exactly what happened when Martha Stewart Weddings' celebrations expert and editorial director Darcy Miller got to work planning a baby shower for her magazine's creative director Kate Berry. Knowing that the mom-to-be, a San Francisco transplant to New York City, has a love of nature, Darcy easily selected a theme that would reflect the guest of honor's style — a "woodland-chic-meets-Bambi" baby shower. The biggest obstacle would be throwing a party that would stand out from all the other parties these "been-there-done-that" editors had witnessed before.

To do that, Darcy relied heavily on personal touches on everything from custom invitations to custom soaps, with smart little details along the way. The entire party can be seen in the April issue of Martha Stewart Living, but we've pulled out our favorite details below! Source: Charlotte Jenks Lewis

The Invitation

The Invitation

Custom invitations from Cheree Berry Paper set the mood for the party. The invitations included drawings of woodland animals by Darcy Miller. Our favorite part? The play on words, "Come fawn over our favorite Berry!" Source: Charlotte Jenks Lewis

The Dessert Table

The Dessert Table

With all these woodland-themed sweets, everyone was definitely in for a treat. To create some height on the table, Darcy used birch rounds from Michaels. According to Darcy, "I like to group like with like, displaying bites in an organized, pleasing way." Source: Charlotte Jenks Lewis

Woodland Cupcakes

Woodland Cupcakes

Check out the simple way Darcy added a woodland touch to ordinary cupcakes — she placed miniature plastic deer atop vanilla buttercream cupcakes from One Girl Cookies. Source: Charlotte Jenks Lewis

A Green Tea Mille-Crepes Cake

A Green Tea Mille-Crepes Cake

The woodland scene was extended to the cake with some toy deer, sugar mushrooms, and ladybug that were added to Lady M's Green Tea Mille-Crepes Cake ($45-$80). Source: Charlotte Jenks Lewis

A Bunny Good Time

A Bunny Good Time

These sweet bunny cookies (with extratasty bunny tails) were a huge hit with the party's guests. Source: Charlotte Jenks Lewis

Unique Touches

Unique Touches

Darcy wanted to give the party some unique touches that would set it apart from all the other baby showers they've seen through the years. One way they did so was with custom soaps created from images that Darcy sketched. As a big believer in custom goods, Darcy suggests going to the source to get exactly what you want for party. She says, "Etsy is filled with vendors who will tailor products to your specifications." Source: Charlotte Jenks Lewis

A Taste of the Forest to Go

A Taste of the Forest to Go

Each guest went home with a taste of the woodland fete. Individual-sized boxes of mushroom-shaped marshmallows were packaged up for guests. Source: Charlotte Jenks Lewis

The April Edition of Martha Stewart Living

The April Edition of Martha Stewart Living