This year our family is blessed by the addition of two new lives. One arrived in July, the other arriving in October. I’m thrilled. I’m done having babies, but I have somewhere to go to get my baby fix, then return home to a good night’s sleep.
Both family members are experiencing parenthood for the first time, so I was involved in throwing showers for both of them. A friend of mine posted some pictures of a beautiful diaper cake. Finally! I could see what a diaper cake really was! And it wasn’t cake at all! I want to do that!
I helped throw a baby shower for one family member who was expecting a beautiful little girl. (And beautiful she is!) A week ahead of the shower, I dove right into attempting to make one. I wanted plenty of time to figure out the best way to do it. I finished it that afternoon. Here it is:
It was a lot of fun. I purchased a box of size 3 Huggies diapers and rolled them into a tight little log, tying them off with white curling ribbon you can purchase on large spools. I put small round bundles of diapers together and then tied them. I made another bundle, tied it, then placed a “layer” of diapers around the small bundle and tied those around it until I got the desired layer size. I just stuck in the travel-size bottles of soaps & lotions, bottles, spoons, socks, washcloths, etc. It took half the box to make a cake this size. I’m not crafty. If I can do this, you can too!
I recently gave a shower for another family member who will be having a son very soon. I put blankets in this one. It was tough. The blankets were too fat if I rolled them short enough to fit in the diaper layer. So, I found a way to stick them into the layer below them to make them thinner. Note: It made the cake stay together better! If you have patience and the right tools to cut a dowel rod to slide down the middle of your cake, please do so. It will hold the whole thing together better.
Here’s the boy cake. Not quiet as ornate as a little girlie cake with flowers on it. But I still loved it:
The ribbon around the layers is actually two different ones. I placed a narrower ribbon over a wider one. I also stuck some puffy baby stickers on to dress it up a bit since I didn’t feel I could go the flower route with a little boy on the way.
I used a stapler a lot to attach the ribbon on the first cake I made. On the last one, I used a combination of double-sized fabric tape and glue dots. Don’t stick anything to the diapers… mom & dad will need those!!!
I also made some favors for this shower. If you can’t tell, mother-to-be is quite fond of brown and blue together, so everything shower-related was also brown and blue.
If I have time, I like to make candle favors. I just purchase votives. Sometimes I place them into a glass holder, sometimes I don’t. I found these little brown boxes at Hobby Lobby in the wedding department. I bought blue ribbon to tie them off. I found the poem online. I’ll type it below the photo in case you can’t see the print.
The poem:
Here is a candle for you to light once the stork has made its flight. With the flicker of the flame, say a prayer in baby’s name.
I tied the votives with ribbon, but it’s really not necessary.
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