BABY GIRL DIAPER CAKE

Here is the baby girl version of the diaper cake I made earlier for a baby boy. You can see the baby boy diaper cake here.

RED ROSES BRIDAL BOUQUET

I want to take a little break from my diaper cakes and go back to my roses:) This bridal bouquet is made out of silk red roses and stems are wrapped with white satin ribbon. Some brides might find this one a little too small for a bridal bouquet. In that case this would make a nice bridesmaid's bouquet. A bigger and more beautiful bridal bouquet with silk red roses is coming soon...

BABY BOY DIAPER CAKE

After I had so many posts on roses, I started having posts on diaper cakes:) I am sure I will go back to roses eventually but for now I am all about diaper cakes:) This one is for a baby boy and it has many gifts included in it. It has:

Around 60 size 1-2 diapers

A very cute baby blue teddy bear rattle

Baby powder

Pacifier

Washcloths

Washcloth lollipops

Decorated with nice ribbon

It would make a very nice baby shower gift. Anyone having a baby shower soon:)??

MINI DIAPER CAKES - CUPCAKES:)

These diaper cakes use only 7 diapers, a wooden embellishment and some ribbon and shred. They are small and cute. They would make perfect centerpieces at baby showers if there are more than one table. Click on the picture to see the details.

MY NEW LIGHT TENT

I always complained about the pictures I've taken like how bad they came out or how I could not prevent the unwanted shadows on my pictures. Then I saw an advertisement about the light cube tents for photographers and I loved them. But not their prices. The sizes like the one I made myself cost around $300 and I don't even know if that includes the lights or not. I decided to do an internet research and I found this website below with how to instructions of making a light tent yourself.

http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-make-a-inexpensive-light-tent

All the material cost around $25 and I am pretty happy with the results.

1-TIER DIAPER CAKE

This one is a 1-tier diaper cake with a receiving blanket, washcloths, a ducky and a flower. I only used 18 diapers in this one.

A SMALL DISH GARDEN FOR MY DAUGHTER

The flowers we used
The dish garden we made


If you want to make it a gift, just add a pretty bow

Last Sunday my daughter and I went to the garden center nearby our house. I was planning to buy an african violet but when I saw that my daughter really liked the polka dot plant, I decided to buy flowers for her. And then we saw the little dish gardens they were selling and decided to make one for her room. Here is what we used:
1. One tiny pot of Parlor palm (Chamaedorea elegans)
2. One tiny pot of white flowered african violet (Saintpaulia)
3. One tiny pot of polka dot plant (Hypoestes sanguinolenta)
4. One small basket
6. Some spanish moss to cover the soil
7. Some charcoal for the bottom of the container (because there is no drainage hole in the bottom of the liner, using charcoal is necessary for drainage and to prevent foul smelling caused by the humidity)
8. Some potting soil
9. A nice bow

Putting the dish garden together is easy but taking care of it might be a little harder. Since there is no drainage hole in the container, watering it right has the utmost importance. Watering it too much will suffocate the flower while watering it not enough will kill it too. Water your dish garden sparingly, only when it is dry to the touch on the top. With good care, it should last for years.

WASHCLOTH LOLLIPOPS

These cute, delicious looking lollipops are not meant to be eaten because I made them out of baby washcloths:) You can see the steps of making them in the pictures. After I rolled them jelly roll style, I wrapped them in small bags and tied with curling ribbons and adorned them with cute, little, colorful pom poms.

DIAPER CAKE

I have seen these diaper cakes in a magazine 3 years ago and I remember that I thought "I've never seen such a thing before". I wanted to make one since then. It was one of my friends' baby shower a few weeks ago and I decided to make one for her. I included lots of gifts to that one like baby bottle, baby bath towel, a toy and even a dozen rose bouquet that I made out of baby socks but this picture is not the one I made for her. I forgot to take a picture of that one:( This one is only diapers and ribbons and I included a little bear on top. I am hoping that I will post more pictures showing different variations of diaper cakes later.

WOODEN ROSES

My husband got these wooden roses for me a few weeks ago and I love them. As I know they are handmade and they have tens of different colors. When I look back to my previous posts, I see that I had so many posts about roses. Fresh, artificial, wooden, red, white, blue... I love them all...

LASTING LOVE

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This idea was in the Florist's Review Magazine's December 2008 issue and I was planning to make one since I've first seen it. It is only a single stem silk peony, very big one. The stem is embellished with white, silver ribbon and beaded garlands. I also added a few artificial white leaves to the stem and the green plastic stem cannot be seen anymore. In the bottom of the vase, I added some clear plastic gems. It is a long lasting keepsake that you can enjoy, well... until you get bored of it. Then it is time to make another design:)