Diaper cake

My friend Laura is pregnant and this weekend she is having a gender reveal baby shower. Instead of a gift off her registry I decided to make a diaper cake. Since she doesn't know if it is a boy or girl yet I went with blue and pink.

First I rolled all the diapers, I used a 50 pack of size one diapers from target. I tied them with some curling ribbon since I didn't have a ton of rubber bands just sitting around. Then I created the 3 layers. I used some random snacks to fill the center of the cake so that cake was a little bigger. Rubber bands kept them all together. I also cut out circles and covered them with tissue paper for the layers to sit on.

Then I stacked them all up and secured them with just a little bit of hot glue since it's not too sticky and can peel off when she disassembles it. I then used a wide pink ribbon and a blue giraffe print ribbon to go around each layer. (Her theme elephants and giraffes so the ribbon fit well). 

After it was all set up I added little toys, spoons, and mini bottles of baby soaps and creams. I finished it off with lots of curling ribbon and my finished cake came out so cute. I topped the diaper cake with a giraffe and elephant silhouette that I traced and cut out. I think I will be making diaper cakes as my shower gifts from now on. Oh and the best part, did this all for less than $20.

And she is having a baby boy!!

Train Toy Chest

Okay, so suddenly our 2 year old loves trains! He hasn't really showed a real interest in anything like Disney shows or any brand-name toys (We don't let him watch cable TV so we weren't too surprised at this) but, Thomas the train really makes him light up. So my husband and I decided we would like to add a few pieces of train-themed furniture to his room. Currently his room is pretty neutral, light woods, greens and browns.

For his toy chest we have this chest that we got and its a bit damaged on the corners and the bottom but I'm thinking some love, sandpaper, and paint we will have it looking gorgeous! It was given to us for free so we will work with what we got to make it just what we need.

After lots of work I finally turned this toy chest into a perfect Train toy chest. I went with Toby the train since he was square. I used my Silhouette to help with some of the design but I ended up painting most of him by hand. 

He fits in great in the play area in our living room with the car table I did for him last year.