Baby Shower Week - Extras

Sadly today is the last day of Baby shower week, but I had so much fun sharing everything baby.

Today is about some extras I did for the shower.

First off is one of my favorites, the diaper cake. I love giving these, and even more, I LOVE getting them. It is simply a cake, but made of diapers. They can have many different things on them, google diaper cakes and you can get some great ideas.

Here is the simple diaper cake I made for Becky's shower.

Here is a pregnant me with the diaper cake my cousin made me, so cute.

I made this diaper cake for my friend Jennifer's cowboy themed baby shower. We hosted that shower two and half years ago, and now that sweet baby is potty trained! How do they grow so fast? :(


The party favors for this shower were hand sanitizers, with cute labels on them. The labels thanked everyone for coming, and had the shower date on them.

They were with a sign that said:

"We were so glad you were able to join us on this special day. Jeremiah can't wait for you to hold him and see his cute little face. Take one, and clean your hands, or you will have to stay away! Thanks for coming!"

The sign might have been a little rude, but oh well, I thought it was cute.

Well that's it! Thanks for joining me for Baby shower week.
And thank you Becky for having a baby, and letting me use him for my blog! Can't wait to meet him! :)

Baby Shower Week - Present

Along with making stuff for the baby shower, I also made the present I gave.

It was a lot of little things, so this post may be long.

I crocheted a baby blanket, similar to this one.

Made some more prudent baby burp cloths.

Another bib, this time it is reversible, and has a J on it.



Big bro and Little bro shirts
I loved these, and I will definitely make more of these for future gifts.

I used iron on fusible webbing for the letters

And I also sewed around the letters to make sure they were not coming off.

Lastly I added an iron-on light interfacing so everything would stay secure.

A prudent baby hooded towel


Car seat cover
I am proud of this one, because it is pretty original, and I did not use a pattern. It was super easy, though.
Becky and I saw one similar to this in the mall one day, and she really liked it.
Because the baby will be little while it is warm outside, I made it out of lightweight cotton, but it could be made with fleece or something else for the winter.

Unlike car seat tents (which are really cute), it has a hole in the top so you can easily see how baby is doing.

It is elastic on the bottom, so it can easily fit different car seats.

It is also reversible, love that fabric.

Finally, I put a little baby book and all the things I made in a basket, and it made a great present.

Baby Shower Week - games

After decorating onesies, we played two additional games.

We played one of my favorites, present bingo. While mom to be, Becky opened her wonderful presents, everyone else was playing Bingo. Instead of making time consuming Bingo cards, I made blank bingo cards, and everyone filled them in. Each square was something they thought she would receive as a gift. This was so much easier on me, and everyone had fun because they were basically guessing what she would get. I had a list of suggestions in case anyone was stumped, and I also suggested that everyone put down what they got her. Both first and second place received a prize

I forgot to take pictures, but it was fun and some of those ladies got pretty competitive.

I also had everyone write diaper notes. I pieces of card stock cut into diaper shapes, and everyone took a note or two and wrote down some advice or encouraging words. We placed them in an empty diaper wipe container I decorated. Now when Becky is changing the 50th dirty diaper of the day, she can take a break and hopefully smile at one of the notes written to her.

All the activities were fun, and I think everyone had a good time with them.

Baby Shower Week - Onesies

First off, today is my birthday, so you should leave a comment and wish me happy birthday. ;)

Fine, enough begging for birthday wishes, on with baby shower week.
One of our "games" was decorating onesies. We had a variety of sizes of onesies for everyone to decorate. I also dyed some of the onesies blue so that there would be a variety of color. They turned out kinda tie dyed, but it looked neat.

Everyone picked a onesie, we had different colors and sizes.

Then we decorated them with fabric markers, fabric, some appliques, and fusible webbing.

I was so happy with how much everyone got into it.

We all hung them back on the clothes pins to display them, sorry forgot to take a picture of that. Here are the results.
Pirate ship

Baby Brother, love the ric-rac

My tie onesie, I was kind of running around like crazy, otherwise I might have been more creative.

tie dyed front

and back

this side up

doggie

mod baby

wild thing

heart breaker

Cute owl

Becky picked the one she liked best, and they got a prize.

The winner! Isn't it cute? Only 16 and a wonderful artist.


Everyone had fun, and Jeramiah will be one cool looking baby.

Baby Shower Week - Food

Continuing with baby shower week, today is all about the food we had.
I was in a rush, and I forgot to take a picture of the table with all of the food on it. Just imagine this picture, but add food.

The shower was at two in the afternoon, the menu was light. I have found that people will eat however much you feed them. If you do a light menu, they will eat a little. If you give them a full meal, they will eat a lot. No matter, what we always have left overs, we are notorious for having too much food.

We had chips and dip. Simple, I know but it always disappears, and it is super easy. I wanted to dye the dip blue, but Jerm said that would be gross.

We also did a fruit carriage with fruit dip. The carriage was easier to make than I thought, especially because Jerm cut it, I am bad with knives. The fruit was yummy, and it turned out really cute.

We also had M&Ms and nuts to snack on.

Some Punch and iced tea, (I love that pitcher).

Instead of a cake, I made cupcakes and placed them on wrapped boxes that looked like presents. I made way too many, normally they would disappear quickly, but tomorrow is my birthday and there is cake everywhere, so we are all on a sugar rush this week.

Overall the food amount was perfect for an afternoon shower. Tomorrow I will share about one of the games we played. Hope you have a great day.