Another Nappy Cake!

A much bigger nappy cake!

Nappies all bundled up with baby stuff - lotions, potions and babygrows!

Tied with ribbons and wrapped in pretty cellophane.

Nappy Cake - All wrapped up

So here we have the finished article - one baby girl's nappy cake. This one was for my friend's daughter, Ping Pong (I don't think they're actually calling her that...)

It contains about 50 size one nappies, 4 or 5 babygrows, a set of 7 bibs (you can see them rolled up like a rose), dummies, baby lotion, shampoo, and bath wash, all rolled up and bundled around a bottle of pink Cava on a cardboard base.

They're all wrapped in tiny hair elastics, then circled around the bottle held together with elastic bands.

Then it's tied with ribbons and wrapped up in florists' cellophane.

And finished with a big ol' bow!

Nappy Cake - help!

This is a temporary post with terrible photos just because I was hoping some of you lovely people could help me choose my trim colours for this nappy cake.
I thought I had enough pink ribbon to do the whole thing, but annoyingly it didn't quite reach!

So what I have here is:

Option 1 - Neapolitan

urgh, flashy!

Option 2 - Purple/pink/purple

Option 3 - Pink/purple/pink

So, which do you prefer? And before I chop up that piece of purple ribbon, do you think it's actually the sash from my new dress, as I have no idea where it's come from!

Nappy Cake!

And even I can't burn this one!

This is a heee-uge cake. 91 nappies, talcum powder, baby lotion, bath lotion, shampoo, baby wipes, 7 small body suits, 3 sleep suits, 2 dummies, 2 teethers and a bottle of sparkling rose! (and i may have forgotten to list something...)

Lu (the baby's mother) asked how long this took to make. I made a guess at an hour. Though that really doesn't take into account all the shopping! But assembly? That's hard to say, as it's done in stages. Maybe two hours from start to finish if I was doing it all at once. I said an hour... but I didn't really think that through. I had help rolling nappies - that took about 15minutes (so 30 mins if I was on my own?) and probably an hour or so arranging them around the bottle in the middle. But then there's the ribbon tying, and the base cutting, and the net gathering. I didn't think to time it all! Next time gadget!

This rather excessive cake of nappies, if I were to sell it, would probably retail for around £80.

But smaller ones could quite easily be made:

For example a "large" 50 nappy cake with 4 lotions and potions, 5 sleep suits, a set of bibs and a bottle of bubbly would be £50
A "medium" 30 nappy cake with 3 lotions, 4 sleep suits and a bottle of bubbly would be £40.

Like I said - I'll try and get a menu worked out!

Nappy Cakes

I might be taking a Nappy Cake along to this craft fair tomorrow...

 Nothing's been priced up yet, it's just to see if there's any interest. The one on display is the one I've made for Lu (who is due to pop quite soon). This one is a Large 3 Tier Cake, and contains

• 81 Huggies Nappies
• 3 George Sleep Suits
• 7 George Bodysuits
• Johnson's Talcum Powder
• Johnson's Baby Shampoo
• Johnson's Baby Bath
• Johnson's Baby Lotion
• Johnson's Baby Oil
• and a bottle of pink Cava

Each nappy is bound in an elastic band, and they're all gathered together and tide with pink ribbon, and wrapped up in white netting, and finished with a bow.

The cakes would be made to order, the number of nappies (and number of tiers) can be reduced (or increased if you want even more, I suppose!) and the other contents altered, depending on requirements and budget. For this cake I think you'd be looking at least £70, but it is pretty huge!!

A smaller 3 tier cake could contain 50 nappies and various lotions and potions, and cost somewhere around £50. And 1 and 2 tiers would cost less again.