Couture diaper cakes are adorned with stuffed animals, toys, accessories and bows to give it a more personalized look. Start with a standard diaper cake to transform it to a couture creation with helpful tips in this free video on baby shower ideas. Expert: Shay Lance Bio: Bio Coming Soon. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
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Once the invitations for a baby shower have been sent out, it is good to look into the next step. Will your guests be doing any interesting activity or will they be bored and wish to go back home. It is therefore very important to decide on baby shower crafts. They keep the guests busy having fun as they get in the mood to have a relaxed time. Your craft ideas can come from various sources. Firstly, the internet is a rich ground for such ideas. Secondly, you can learn from friends. Ask them what they would enjoy doing and you will be surprised at how people are creative. It is good to engage in crafts that are in your reach. There is no need to think of too expensive or complicated crafts.
While deciding on the crafts, it is good to consider the various ages of people that will participate. If there are children, they would not appreciate hard crafts and others are too childish for grownups. This should not be a serious time so, find a way in which the two age groups can meet in the middle and have a fun time. Put little stress on the mother to be. Even if a craft item goes missing, deal with it without panicking. Make sure that everyone is comfortable. If the refreshments are not enough, make sure they are immediately replaced. People enjoy crafts more when there is food and fun. Do not be too hard if someone messes up the craft; have fun and laugh at mistakes.
Some of the baby shower craft ideas are; drawing tiny names of the unborn baby as gifts are being opened. This can release so much creativity as everyone tries to out do each other with the best and cutest writings. Another craft is to deep fingers in safe paint and hand print the gifts. The kids love this kind of craft and it is fun to do. Another craft is having baby poems written on papers and have them framed. This is commonly done by siblings. The poems can also be read out loud for the guests to enjoy. Grownups can engage in telling baby stories and their experiences. When people are engaging in something that is fun, time flies so fast and the shower becomes a success.
Scrap booking is always a good craft to engage in where you focus on the unborn child. Another thing that is very loved by many is taking goofy photos. Everyone’s picture is taken without their knowledge and then shown later as people engage in making fun of the person caught unaware. Later, serious photographs are taken to remember the cherished day. With so much crafts to do, you will find out there is no time for more and your guests are disappointed to leave the party. This means that the baby shower was a huge success. A party like this should end on a high note. The parents to the unborn child should be pleased and thankful. It is a great time taken to anticipate the amazing new life into the world.
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Are you planning a baby shower sometime in the near future? Whether it is for you, a family member or a friend, you should make sure you choose some baby gift baskets. Hold on, you shouldn’t choose just any one of them, you should choose the best baby gift baskets. What exactly would the best ones be? As you are reading this article, we are going to answer your question.
First of all, you could either make the basket or you could purchase it. Whatever you do, you should make sure it is something that is unique. When you purchase one from the local store, then you may end up getting the same one that someone else has gotten. With that said, we believe you should look on the Internet and get one. Chances are, your basket is going to be unique.
There are many things you could give as a gift for a baby. You could include some bath toys with bath soap, or you could include toys in the new baby gift basket. You may also get a case that is full of baby clothes. However, first, you need to make sure it is a boy or a girl. Remember, you are not one hundred percent sure, so you may want to hold on to that receipt in case you buy a lot of dresses and the baby turns out to be a boy.
The main importance of a baby gift basket is to make sure that the basket contains items that are going to be useful to the recipient. For a newborn baby gift basket, you might want to search for one that includes items such a mobile, changing mat, bottles, teethers, and rattles. You can also include things like CD’s with nursery rhymes, bibs, spoons, infant cups, and pacifiers. You can even get baby gift baskets which are made with furniture such as bassinets and cribs! Whatever you choose, just make sure that the basket’s contents suit the baby and its parents!
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I just recently became a first time grandmother and have been enjoying the new little addition to our family. I am also an avid crafter and seamstress so I can often be found in my craft and sewing room creating some wonderful things for my friends and family.
With the new addition of the baby girl to our family, I decided I wanted to make some homemade baby bibs. I thought the process would be difficult, but once I got started…I realized how easy it was to create my own bibs for our grand-daughter.
Here are the supplies you will need:
1 pre-purchased terry cloth bib to use as a pattern
1 package of double fold bias tape (2 yard package), per bib
sewing machine
sewing thread
1/4 yard of cotton terry cloth fabric
Scissors
Miscellaneous sewing supplies
Note: If you really want to be frugal, you can recycle some old terry cloth bath towels for this project.
Lay your pre-purchased baby bib down on a piece of white paper and trace around the shape using a pencil, then cut out your paper pattern. Next, unroll your bias tape and cut off a piece of bias tape measuring 34″ in length. Pin your paper pattern down onto your terry cloth fabric and pin into place. Cut around the paper pattern and then remove the pins. Cover and pin the bias tape around the raw edges of the sides and bottom of your bib, don’t cover the neck area just yet.
Using your sewing machine, stitch the bias tape into place and fasten off. Cut another piece of bias tape measuring approximately 26″ long. Attach the center of the bias tape to the center neck area of the bib, pin into place. (note: a piece of bias tape about 10″ long is left at both ends of the neck edge for the ties.) Using your sewing machine, stitch around the neck opening so that you are attaching and covering the raw edges.
You can use your pre-purchased one as a guide on how it should be sewn.
Decorations: If desired, you can use 3/4″ wide eyelet lace instead of bias tape in step one of the sewing, but you will still need to use a coordinating color of bias tape for the neck area and ties. You can embroider a name or nice design onto the front of the bib or purchase some cute iron-on applique’s.
Shelly Hill has been working from home in Direct Sales since 1989 and is a Manager with Tupperware. Shelly enjoys crafting, scrapbooking and sewing along with various other crafting mediums. You can visit Shelly online at http://www.workathomebusinessoptions.com for free family and parenting articles or her recipe blog at http://wahmshelly.blogspot.com for free family recipes.