Crafty Baby Shower Gifts

A friend of mine threw a baby shower for me a few weeks ago.  Even though I've got 4 kids and a little baby girl on the way, there are a few things that you always need new when you're expecting.  And sometimes, the things that you have from the previous kids are clearly ready to be retired anyway.  I love to craft but I've been too lazy to do so while I've been pregnant.  Looking back at my baby shower, I realized how many crafty friends I've got.  If you're into crafting and want to save a little money in giving a baby gift or just making one for yourself, here are several ideas that were presented by my own circle of wonderful friends:

A cute bouquet of baby socks rolled to look like rosettes.
The friend that made this found the idea on Pinterest.
Everyone at the shower LOVED this!  She rolled each
baby sock and secured it to the stem with floral tape.
Then she added other silk flowers to add to the full-
ness of the bouquet and stuck them in styrofoam
inside the basket and hid the styrofoam with crinkled
gift paper.  Such a cute idea from PINTEREST!
http://pinterest.com/search/?q=baby+sock+bouquet

An outta site DIAPER CAKE.  Another friend used
3cake pan sizes; rolled each diaper individually,
secured with a rubber
band and filled the cake pan w/ diapers then
secured the whole layer w/a larger rubber band.
Each tier was done this way.  Then she wrapped the
outside of each layer w/ pink netting and finally
accented w/ the green ribbon w/ pink glitter flowers.
The top was decorated w/ silk flowers and a large flower
shaped pinwheel  was inserted to hold all the layers together.
She displayed it on a cake board that was wrapped
w/ pink wrapping paper.
Other ideas on how to make adiaper cake can be found on:
http://www.howtomakeadiapercake.com/

Another friend gave me a 6 piece set
of hair accessories.  I love the fact that
you can mix and match the flowers
w/ the bands.  She also put them
in this pink tin which is great cause
I'll always have a place to keep them.

Each band has a ribbon around it so
each flower can be clipped to the ribbon.
This is awesome because it allows you to
mix and match bands w/ flowers AND
the clip doesn't rub against your baby
girl's head.  PLUS, the flower can be
used w/o the band when your daughter
gets older and has a little more hair to clip
the flower on to.   If you notice, the stitches
on the back of the felt fabric flower were made
to add a folded look to the front of the flower
(kind of like a dart).  I really liked this idea
because it added to the overall look of the flower.

A fourth friend made this car seat cover.  I
really like it because I only used a blanket for
the first 4 kids.  This one velcros to the handle
and will block the wind/rain/etc from getting on
the baby where the shade doesn't cover.
(I don't have a car seat yet so I displayed it
on the bouncer I got).  The friend that sewed
this said it was super easy and had a pattern
for it.  You can find "how to" instructions
for a car seat cover online at:
http://www.make-it-do.com/tag/car-seat-cover-pattern/