Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Baking Diaper Cakes

I started making Diaper Cakes approximately 2 years ago when 3 of my dear friends were all pregnant within weeks of each other. This was an attempt to make creative, practical and equal gifts for my mommy-to-be friends.

My first Diaper cakes took me FOREVER, mainly because I had no idea what I was doing!  
Also, I rolled each diaper!  OMG!

Here are the 1st 3 diaper cakes I ever made.  These were not cost effective in the least!  
I have since streamlined and de-cluttered my cakes, but I still hold these 3 near and dear to my heart as I do the the babies the represent  Kenley, Madelyn and Aiden!

Madelyn
Kenley
Aiden


I then began researching on Etsy.  I would look up Diaper Cakes that I liked and try to re-create them.  Luckily I had a lot of baby showers to attend to prefect my craft.  I now use receiving blankets on my cakes which I feel act as a 'frosting' and make the cakes look more finished AND add to the gift!  Here are a few of my favorites!


 Now my friend Jamie will be having her first baby and...ITS A BOY!  
We are very excited to welcome Baby Maddox to the world.  
I am working on his cake this week and will post pics once I have completed it.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Amaya's Play Room



My husband and I are in the process of buying a new house and I am so excited because we will now have a Play-Room for Amaya and ALL her toys!.  Amaya's new room will will be connected to her Play-Room by a jack-n-jill bathroom, just like Brenda and Brandon shared on 90210 :)

I have been gathering ideas of how we can design her play-room to be cute, storage efficient and fun for her.
I LOVE this!!  So cute and girly!!

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this room especially the dollhouse bookcase.  My next purchase??

Love the storage in this one but worry about my little monkey climbing up this!
Let's see what we come up with for our little Joy :)