When I was flat down with the ghombue, I sent the boy to buy me some baby things for a shower...he got everything I asked for and then some. I told him to buy a package of infant socks...ONE PACKAGE...he came home with 18 pairs of infant socks. He's thorough to a fault. After I got better, I was going to return the socks, then I remembered this:
Baby socks rolled up into "roses" and pinned to greenery...it was very pretty on the table. Of course, that only used about a half dozen socks...so what to do with the others? I played around with them for a bit and then I remembered seeing socks as cupcakes at Pleasant Home! So I "borrowed" her idea and made these:
(Take a minute and check out Pleasant Home, she's one clever gal.) My local grocery store bakery gave me the plastic cupcake container - sometimes they sell them for a buck a piece - a small price to pay for a cute idea, no?
Michaels craft store had these darling wooden flowers, butterflies, bees and dragonflies - already painted - that adorned the cake. They were 59 cents each! Pretty ribbon held the diapers together and the layers just sit on top of each other - no pins, no magic. Easy to assemble, easy to take apart. The little bear peeking out from the top finished off the cake. It's sitting on a glass cake stand - hard to see - but with the stand this cake was about 3 feet high! I used 66 newborn diapers - which is probably one week's worth!
The mom to be didn't know what she was having so pink and blue cookies were the favors...as it turned out, Kjarsta, who's baby wasn't due for three weeks, had a LITTLE GIRL just 3 days after the shower! Must have been all the excitement from opening all those wonderful gifts! Congratulations Kjarsta!!
If you need a fabulous diaper cake and don't have the time to assemble one yourself, check out the Diaper Cakes from ediapercakes.com - they are absolutely adorable!
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