On the last week of school Me and a few other co-workers planned a little baby shower for Kim (the new teacher in the Deaf Ed. Dept.). She is actually due at the end of May...but we, at work watched her belly grow since the beginning and wanted to honor that before we all left for summer vacation. I was able to collect a few dollars from most of the people in the SPED dept. and turned that into a $100 gift card for Babies-R-Us and then got a some decorations, punch, and a photo cake that featured her 4-D s
onogram
photo. Kim's cousin, Katie also works in the SPED department and she has a special cake
lady she goes to...so she ordered a super rich (expensive) chocolate cake that was decorated to match the invitations I sent out. I didn't think a 9x9 inch cake would be enough to serve 30-ish people so I felt more comfortable having too much cake than not enough! I've gotta admit, it was a good cake
but had everyone who contributed come to the party we would've had to cut into the cake I bought as well. Cake issues aside, the best part for me was the onesies! I
wanted to have a couple white onesies printed with a Highland High School logo and then sew on some bootie ruffles to make them a bit more "girlie" considering our colors are blue and green. When I got to work a co-worker named Jefferi saw the onesies on my desk and told me she'd already put in an order to
have some printed...but she loved my idea to add ruffles so a perfect compromise was made and a super cute product was created! When I found out that they hadn't been printed yet Kacey (an interpreter and super creative friend) and I went up and started snooping around to see what we
could create! We had to cut some of the bigger designs to get them to fit on a tiny onesie...but when we were done they were perfect! I then took everything home and stayed up until midnight sewing ruffles (which I'd never done before). I messed up on two because the cotton fabric on a onesie is so soft it tears
easily...ultimately I made
4 complete ruffled bootie onesies and then picked the two that came out the most perfect. They were a hit at the party and I was pretty proud considering the process began by ripping out the sides of perfectly good onesies then relying on my novice sewing skills to put "humpty-dumpty" together again! So just as soon as I got everything ready for the work shower I had to get started rolling
diapers to create the diaper cake gift for Kim's actual baby shower
that was the following Sunday on May 31st. I stopped counting somewhere after 100 diapers...then comes the making of the cake form and then finally adding the decorations. I made sure to chose some of the baby
necessities off of her registry and then whatever else I could use to fill in the gaps! It wasn't as good as I wanted it because I'd envisioned ruffles on every layer but I ran out and didn't have time to get back to the store before the shower...but no one could've known that if I'd've kept it a secret! O-well, I was satisfied and it was cute either way...enjoy the
photos!
On the last week of school Me and a few other co-workers planned a little baby shower for Kim (the new teacher in the Deaf Ed. Dept.). She is actually due at the end of May...but we, at work watched her belly grow since the beginning and wanted to honor that before we all left for summer vacation. I was able to collect a few dollars from most of the people in the SPED dept. and turned that into a $100 gift card for Babies-R-Us and then got a some decorations, punch, and a photo cake that featured her 4-D sonogram photo. Kim's cousin, Katie also works in the SPED department and she has a special cake
lady she goes to...so she ordered a super rich (expensive) chocolate cake that was decorated to match the invitations I sent out. I didn't think a 9x9 inch cake would be enough to serve 30-ish people so I felt more comfortable having too much cake than not enough! I've gotta admit, it was a good cake but had everyone who contributed come to the party we would've had to cut into the cake I bought as well. Cake issues aside, the best part for me was the onesies! I 
wanted to have a couple white onesies printed with a Highland High School logo and then sew on some bootie ruffles to make them a bit more "girlie" considering our colors are blue and green. When I got to work a co-worker named Jefferi saw the onesies on my desk and told me she'd already put in an order to have some printed...but she loved my idea to add ruffles so a perfect compromise was made and a super cute product was created! When I found out that they hadn't been printed yet Kacey (an interpreter and super creative friend) and I went up and started snooping around to see what we could create! We had to cut some of the bigger designs to get them to fit on a tiny onesie...but when we were done they were perfect! I then took everything home and stayed up until midnight sewing ruffles (which I'd never done before). I messed up on two because the cotton fabric on a onesie is so soft it tears 
easily...ultimately I made 4 complete ruffled bootie onesies and then picked the two that came out the most perfect. They were a hit at the party and I was pretty proud considering the process began by ripping out the sides of perfectly good onesies then relying on my novice sewing skills to put "humpty-dumpty" together again! So just as soon as I got everything ready for the work shower I had to get started rolling diapers to create the diaper cake gift for Kim's actual baby shower 
that was the following Sunday on May 31st. I stopped counting somewhere after 100 diapers...then comes the making of the cake form and then finally adding the decorations. I made sure to chose some of the baby 
necessities off of her registry and then whatever else I could use to fill in the gaps! It wasn't as good as I wanted it because I'd envisioned ruffles on every layer but I ran out and didn't have time to get back to the store before the shower...but no one could've known that if I'd've kept it a secret! O-well, I was satisfied and it was cute either way...enjoy the
photos!
2 comments:
Those are too cute for words. I wish I knew someone who was having a baby. I'd pay you to make one for me and then take all the credit! Ha Ha J/K
I'd totally do that for you even if you took the credit because I actually enjoy making them!! The worst part is rolling and tieing all the diapers because it tends to give me blisters but I really like the creative part!
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