Monkey Repeat

Late last week I got an email asking if I could do a cake similar to the cake I made for my sister in law back in 2009.

While I didn't want to make an exact replica (since I love making them all different), I did use the same color theme and topped it with a monkey wearing sunglasses, that's where the similarities stopped.

I have to laugh at how much my cakes have changed from 2009 until today! But back to the cake.

This cake is made out of over 140 Pampers Newborn diapers and covered in monkeys, monkeys and more monkeys!!

 Mr. Monkey, sporting his sunglasses, is showing off his super hero skills by climbing up the side of the cake (I caught him in the middle, just shy of the top). He's surrounded by Johnson and Johnson products, 2 pairs of socks, Gerber spoons, teethers, a wash cloth and two NUK pacifiers, among other surprises!

 Check out his super hero cape!!

Congratulations to mommy and daddy to be!! Hope your little man enjoys his cake!

A Whale of a Good Time

We've done a lot of girl cakes, so when I was contacted to do a Nautical themed cake for a little boy, I was extremely excited.

There's not much nautical themed baby items out there right now, so I decided to focus on the colors and throw in a few nautical items. 

This cake includes over 140 Pampers Newborn diapers, 2 NUK pacifiers, Johnson and Johnson products, 4 Gerber soft tip spoons, 2 pairs of socks, 3 washcloths, 1 cloth diaper burp cloth, 1 Sassy ring rattle, 1 Koala baby security blanket and 1 Baby Einstein baby Neptune Rattle. Plus, the super cute whale on top! 

It came out so cute! Hopefully mommy to be enjoyed it, and their newborn son gets lots of snuggle time with his new whale!

Speed Racer

For the first time, I was asked if I could do a cake using cloth diapers. It was a new challenge for me since I've never used cloth diapers before, so I was all for it.

We decided instead of a cake, (which would have taken a lot of cloth diapers and I'm still not certain how the layers would have turned out) to do a motorcycle instead. And given the nursery colors and some favorite animals of mommy-to-be, I was off and running!!

This bike consisted of 16 cloth diapers (8 per wheel), 2 receiving blankets, 2 additional cloth diapers (for the headlight), one pair of socks, 5 link toys, 2 bibs, 1 newborn hat, and of course the rider, a monkey!

I've already heard from mommy to be and she loved it!! So that makes me happy!

So congratulations to John and Allison on the upcoming arrival of little Lucas!!

Ready for a ride!

"M" for mommy and daddy's last name

Cool dude!

From above

Close up of the wheels

Welcome To Seattle!

No, we're not moving from Virginia to Seattle (though it is a place I'd like to visit!). But over the past month I have had a bit of Seattle fever, but for good reason.The biggest order (to date) Personalized Diaper Cakes has received with a Seattle sports theme for two of them and a "boy" theme for the third.

Mom and dad to be already have a little girl in their family and are about ready to welcome a sweet little boy into the mix. As sports fans (more specifically Seattle sports fans), their wonderful friend decided that it would be great to include this love into the little guys baby shower. We came up with two 2-tier cakes, one for the Seattle Mariners (baseball) and one for the Seattle Seahawks (football) to put on the tables set up for guests and then a 3-tier cake to put on the gift table. We wanted these cakes to feel like they went together, but not for them to be exactly the same. THANKFULLY, the two sports teams colors are similar and work together, so finding the color combination for the 3-tier cake was pretty simple.

Let's take a closer look at the three cakes, shall we?

First, the Mariners cake
94 Pampers Newborn Diapers, two Seattle Mariners Onesies (6 months), two NUK baseball pacifiers, Baseball socks, a baseball bib, a teething ring, baseball wrist rattle and a newborn (reversible) baseball cap. The colors were pulled from the onesie that is on the right hand side of the cake. We did look high and low for Mariners ribbon, but there was none to be found. So instead we used baseball ribbon to pull together the them.

Now for the Seahawks cake
Again, made of 94 Pampers Newborn Diapers, three Seahawks onesies (6-9 months), football themed socks, two NUK football themed pacifiers, and a mini Seahawks helmet.

These two cakes are a little less filled in than some of our cakes, but we wanted them to stick to the themes as much as possible, so if it wasn't Seahawks or Mariners related, it didn't get attached. Instead, we saved the stuff that is normally included on cakes for the 3-tier cake.
With a general "boy" theme, we had to find something to focus on so this cake didn't feel like it was just thrown together with random things. So we decided to (loosely) stick with the sports theme of the 2-tier cakes and then incorporate the colors of the other cakes (so they would still feel like they belong together) in the stuff attached around the cake.

This cake has over 100 Pampers Newborn Diapers, Taggies football carseat toy, teething ring, keys toys, socks, a sports themed bib, Johnson and Johnson products, 2 NUK pacifiers, wrist rattle, Gerber soft tip spoons, a pacifier clip (which, in my humble opinion, is the best invention ever!! I'm not sure how we could have survived without this! If you're expecting a child and planning on using pacifiers, do yourself a HUGE favor and pick up one of these. You can see what it looks like in the picture below.), sunglasses and a super soft stuffed monkey on top.
The colors of the ribbons were pulled from the other two cakes, the blue from the Mariners cake and the blue from the Seahawks cake, put together and then a third ribbon which says "Baby Boy" (which you can't see in this photo).

So what do you think? Which one is your favorite? I'm personally in love with the mini helmet and the mini baseball cap.

Stay tuned! We have two more cakes in the next week and a half so there's going to be a lot more photos coming!

Beachy Keen!

So awhile back I shared a quick look at the beach themed diaper cake that I had finished. Well know I can share the fully complete cake!What do you think? This is a different look for diaper cakes for me, focusing more on the theme of the cake instead of what's surrounding the cake.

The cake is covered in decorative fishing net and shells

I was told that mom and dad to be are very relaxed parents so it should be a simple cake. So the cake is decorated with Johnson and Johnson travel products, two NUK pacifiers, one pair of socks and 2 Gerber soft tip spoons

I'm pretty much in love with this cake. Here's hoping mom and dad to be are as well!!