Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Snowman Diaper Cake



This is a perfect Diaper cake to give as gift for any mother expecting around the holidays. Its dressed in a candy cane look with a great holiday feel to it. This cake brings not only the diapers that will be a great need but also body lotions for mom.

Ingredients:
1 cute Plush Snowman toy
1 body lotion for mommy
1 shower gel for mommy
50 size one Luvs diapers

Check out this diaper cake on our Etsy store if you are interested!


Friday, November 6, 2009

Google Gives Tribute to Our Furry Friends

Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Ernie & Burt, Grover, Elmo, Mr Snuffy all make up some of my most memorable friends growing up. For anyone in their 30s who grew up inviting Sesame Street into their home every morning or evening can relate to how much they were part of our growing up years. Of course Sesame Street has been a friend for all generations after that and through the years has had its share of changes.

On November 10, 1969 Sesame Street premiered their very first episode. Today it has proven to entertain little kids in 125 countries around the world.

Google has been paying tribute to Sesame Street's 40th birthday by having our favorite characters appear in their logo. We saw Big Bird on Wednesday, Cookie Monster on Thursday and Today we have Burt and Ernie.

My favorite character has always been cookie monster so yesterday was my favorite Google page:



Here is my favorite episode of cookie monster:



Here is a link showing some of the other cute Google Doodles that have been used:
Other Google Doodles

I am guessing they will have more between now and Nov 10th :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SESAME STREET!!

Monday, October 26, 2009

Angel Bear Diaper Cake


SOLD

Angel Bear Diaper Cake is a perfect flared diaper cake that would go well with either gender.

A neutral yellow diaper cake perfect for either sex. Carter's Plush Angel Bear with wings sits on the 1st tier, making it perfectly angelic. One receiving blanket has tiny bee designs and the other one has green little frogs. The cake is topped with a bath sponge and a Johnson n Johnson traveling size powder bottle. In the back of the cake there is a yellow bib.

This cake is perfect when the sex is unknown.

60 size one luvs diapers
2 receiving blankets
1 carters plush angel bear toy
1 Johnson n Johnson powder traveling size bottle
1 bath sponge
1 yellow bib

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Sad Rubber Ducky

To my readers that follow my diaper cakes I apologize for falling short of updating my blog in the last few weeks. Family issues and life took hold of my time and I was unable to keep up my posts. My blog has turned into a place where I can just display all the things I find to be super cute or my creations. Its my way of keeping my life long love for stuffed animals and cute things that as an adult you almost have to find a reason to have them.

Here is another cute commercial. Embarrassing to admit but I actually get all sad to see the rubber ducky sad. What can I say... a kid at heart.

Friday, July 31, 2009

3 Little Piggys Diaper Cake




Now Available on Ebay

One of my daughter's favorite bed time stories is "The 3 Little Pigs". Reading it to her for the 100th millionth time the other night I came up with my next cute diaper cake creation. My 3 Little Pigs Diaper Cake can be adored by anyone who thinks pigs to be absolute cute. I left out the whole wolf idea of course since it would not fit well with the innocent and angelic theme going on in the cake.

The cake is topped with the main plushy piggy toy at the top. He is holding a pink spongy to wash the baby. Around the 2 tier you have a receiving blanket and sitting on top of the 1st tier are his two other piggy buddies holding hands and showcasing a baby bottle. The diaper cake is a 2 tier composed of 56 diapers. Designed in the flare frosted style for anyone who prefers that look.

Most people follow the more modern themes well known as Winnie the Pooh, Sesame Beginnings, and Safari. Why not be a little different and have a theme of an older fairy tale such as our piggys.

With this diaper cake you can huff and a puff a whole bunch of blessings toward baby and mommy.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Naked Bottoms, Bye Bye Diapers


People can have different opinions on what is best for baby. Women battle with so many questions when becoming a first time mother. Should I breast feed or bottle feed, is it ok to not wash your newborn's cloths before using them or even what are the best diapers to use or should I use diapers at all.

Diapers have made life so simple and clean to deal with the poppy mess but contrary to popular beliefs, there are people who believe in more natural ways of potty training their little one. More popular in third world countries due to the lack of accessibility and money, it’s a norm to potty train babies by keeping them naked from very young ages.

Babies that are trained in this way have a higher rate of being trained a lot faster and younger. But the question is who is up to the challenge of putting this to a test.
  • You would start by leaving you baby naked to roam freely at home.
  • Make notes on the routine in his or her bowl movements.
  • While cleaning up the mess you keep insisting to the baby that this needs to be done in the toilet.
  • Walk the baby over to the toilet and show them what to do.
Being consistent is the key to having this technique work.

Though I don’t consider myself a fan of this method, I did know someone who would swear by this technique. You have to be very patient and know that you will encounter messes in the first few days until baby's routine is in place.

Babies seems to learn faster and many are potty trained a lot younger than the ones in diapers.
Big question would really be, are you up for the challenge. I tried it for fun one day to see if I could really hack it. I ended up putting a diaper on my little girl after 6 hours.

The idea of doing away with the expense of diapers might give you a push to try it out yourself.
You baby might learn quickly and help you say bye bye diapers for good.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Evian Roler Babies Popular Video

If you drop in every so often to my blog, you already know I am always on the hunt for the cutest baby themed jokes, commercial or products. Here is the latest sensation on YouTube. I the last week this cute international commercial has achieved over 6 million hits. For those of you who might have missed it, here is one of my many cute baby commercial.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Diapers Diapers Diapers

One of the biggest questions that newly parents may have is, what is the cost of having a new baby in the house. What new expenses will they have to deal with and is their budget in place for it. For anyone wondering the average expense for diapers alone, I gather a few fun facts that might be interesting to know.
  • In the first year of a baby's life, the parents will spend an average of 560.00 on diapers.
  • A baby can use about 2788 diapers in one year.
  • The average cost for raising a child from birth to 18 is between 125,000 - 250,000. (That is not including college).
  • In the baby's first year a couple can spend roughly 9,000 - 11,000 in all baby essentials such as formula, clothing, diaper, etc.
  • Even though this is a case of every individual, the average toddler leaves the diapers any where between 2.75 to 3.5 years of age.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Giraffe Diaper Cake





Most of the diaper cakes on my blogs have been created using the roll up technique. But this last one I decided to build it with what most diaper cake makers call the frosted fan look. This style seems to be more popular with cakes that have of more of an elegant style. An example of this might be the flower diaper cakes. I don't have a preference on how to make them. It depends on what the client prefers.

But this next cake was made with the flared frosted look.
A cute Carter's Baby Giraffe stands tall on a cake of two layers of 52 diapers. Wrapped around the top, layer giving it a smooth frosted look is a safari receiving blanket.

I have one available cake such as this one for $40.00 plus shipping.
Please email me with any questions on this or any other cake you might be interested in.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Pluffies are my favorite

When creating all my diaper cakes, I usually build each one keeping in mind the preference of the client. But I must say if I was asked what makes the cutest toppings for each diaper cake I have to say I love using the Ty Pluffies Collection and the Child of Mine Carter's Collection.

I started collection the Ty Pluffies when I was pregnant with my daughter. Creating her room theme made me fall in love completely with the Pluffies. They are one of the few lines of stuffed animals that carries the cute faces across almost all of there animals. My little girl ended up making slumbers the bear her very best friend in the whole wide world. She goes every where with him.
Growing up I was probably the only 15 year old with a room full of stuffed animals. I think my love for making baby baskets and diaper cakes today is so I can continue the excuse of having cuddly cute stuffed animals around.
Here is a link to the website that has all the Pluffy Collection. One look at all the faces and you see that the Ty Pluffies Collection ranks high if you are looking for something that will make you go AHHHHHH SO CUTE!!!

Monday, June 15, 2009

Baby Basket

Diaper Cakes are not the only gift that would be beautiful and unique to give. A baby Basket can also be the perfect gift to give a new mommy to be. This basket was built with a baby boy in mind.

The baby basket contains, about 15 diapers, one receiving blanket, 1 wash cloth, 5 bath buddies, all traveling size bath essentials and one cute horse name Whinny from the Pluffies TY collection. Anyone that has followed my blog knows I am a huge fan of either the "TY - Pluffies" or "Carters - Child of Mine" collection. They have always seemed to have the cutest stuffed animals for my baby themes.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Another Cute Diaper Commercial

What better suited for a diaper cake blog then a commercial of diapers.
Here is a cute foreign diaper commerical I found.



Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Diaper Cakes at Baby Showers

Diaper cakes have become pretty popular a most baby showers. You either find them as a centerpiece of the tables, a display at the main table of the mother to be, or even more and more people are considering giving them as a perfect gift.

Usually the most common needed item of every new mother is diapers. It is not rare for the mother to ask her friends and families to provide with diapers as part of the gift. Diaper cakes gives you the option to make it a perfect key sake for the mother until she is ready to use the diapers.

Consider a diaper cake on your next baby celebration :)!!!!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Winnie the Pooh Flowers Diaper Cake



A perfect cake for anyone looking for diaper cake that is not pink or blue would be Winnie the Pooh and Flowers too diaper Cake. The main request for this diaper cake was for it to be very classic. Winnie the Pooh sits at the top holding a powder bottle. A set of booties are perched right next to him. One receiving blanket and one beautiful Carters blanket makes the frosting for the bottom area. All the bath essentials help to decorate the cake along with pacifiers and bibs in the back of the cake.

Someone had describe its a ever so tender.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Baby Blue Diaper Cake

So since all cute cuddly stuffed animals get a turn on my blog to show off my beautiful diaper cakes this next one is perfect for elephant lovers. This Carter's pluffy stands tall at the top of this two tear diaper cake.

Along with him comes a blue teething ring with a new born 1.5 oz bottle filled with gum balls for mommy to enjoy, pacifiers and spoons to fill the top area of the cake. The frosting of the cake is made of a receiving blanket with a brown color decor and a picture of our cute elephant and his bird friend displayed. The cake holds 56 size(1) Huggies diapers.

This Baby Blue Elephant Diaper Cake is perfect to celebrate a baby boy's arrival. I usually don't post the price of any of my cakes only because they are all so custom made. But I had a picture of this particular diaper cake example for a little while on Craigslist and it did drive interest. For anyone who is interested I sell this cake for $45.00. Keep in mind that they can be custom made and all cakes can be completely done to someones uniques interest.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Sprinkle Shower?


You almost have to wonder if that title is correct to call it a Sprinkle Shower because sprinkle intends to be just a sprinkle right? Women always wonder if its ethically correct to have a baby shower for the second baby. The answer is yes. But put a small spin to the idea by saying, "We are celebrating a Baby Sprinkle" and your troubles are over. Would you not agree that it could be said you are not having another baby shower, but just a sprinkle celebration instead. Sprinkle alludes to the idea that the mother does not need a shower of gifts but instead just sprinkle her with a few little things that might come handed.

I had a friend send me an invitation to her sprinkle celebration soon and I thought it was so cute to share on my blog. The poem she included in the invitation was perfect for the occasion.


A Baby Sprinkle Celebration

Pins, Diapers, Bottles, Galore,

Mommy and Daddy are having one more,

Big (brother) or (Sister) has plenty to share,

This is only a "sprinkle" to show that we care,

Please join us to celebrate!!!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Koala Cup Diaper Cake


This is a cute Cup Diaper Cake that I recently did. This is actually the second on that was requested. Perfect little gift for an office friend. The cake is made of 18 size one diapers, one 4 oz baby bottle, two wash clothes, traveling Destin baby rash cream, and a Carters Plush Koala. This cake is made as a 1 tier and its perfect for when you just want to say congratulations.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Cute Baby Shower Poem

Going through the internet I came across this cute little poem for a baby shower. For anyone that wants to put a little spin to the way they invite their guest, have the baby to be invite them him or herself. The poem was written by Joanna Fuchs in case anyone is interested in more of her poems.


Come to a Baby Shower

I'll soon be here to meet you! I've got lots of fun to share, And now here's a baby shower To help my mom prepare. So come and join the party, With friends and family, To anticipate the arrival Of her baby--Hey, that's me! Sign it "Baby (last name)"

By Joanna Fuchs

Friday, March 27, 2009

Short & Bald Commerical - Too Cute!

Here is another cute baby commercial that is perfect for my diaper cake blog.
It was a pretty famous Johnson and Johnson commercial a couple of years ago.


Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Cute Bear Diaper Cake

In February I built a cute bear diaper cake all decorated in red to celebrate the month of Valentines Days. The cake was perfect for a mommy that was due around that week and the person who gave the gift wanted it to be all in a love theme.

So with a mix of baby pink and violet, this cake was perfect for the perfect occasion.

Topped with a cute plush bear that you see in the picture, baby socks, one bottle full of bubble gum for the mom to enjoy, 52 size one diapers, and all baby essentials buried within the cake make this cake so perfect.

Thanks for looking.
For any information on any of the diaper cakes I display on this blog you can email me at calidelights@gmail.com

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Miss Piggy on the Today Show!

My blog is all about diaper cakes, but since my favorites of all times are the Sesame Street bunch and their fellow cousins are the Muppets, I thought I should post this to whoever loves them as well.


Miss Piggy will be on the Today Show on Friday morning February 6.
She will be stopping by to promote her new book.

I missed posting when the Sesame Bunch was on Scrubs which is one of my favorite shows. So in case anyone has kids and follows their childhood buddies here is a good link to see when and where they will be making appearances. Muppet News Flash


And here is a fun recap the Sesame Street bunch on scrubs:



Maybe I will create another Sesame Street diaper cake soon!!!

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Daddy and Diapers!

I came across this video a few months ago so I am sure it might be familiar to a few readers. But for those that have never seen it, I thought it was a cute little video to give you a laugh.

The question is, do daddy's just use the smell and gross event as an excuse to not change dirty diapers, or are they really so repulsed by the whole event.

Enjoy!!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Ducky Wonder Diaper Cake


With the Holidays, and all the other events in my life I realized I have been a bit behind on posting my diaper cakes. The end of 08 and the beginning of 09 have been eventful and hopes for alot to come in 2009 is driving people. With all the worries and issue going on I still find comfort in building my beautiful cakes.

So to start off the year I am going to post one of my most recent diaper cakes. I call it Ducky Wonder. Its a beautiful duck diaper cake perfect to carry all the bath accessories. Yellow makes it the perfect both gender splendor!!!

Items are:
Mommy Duck at the top of the diaper cake
Two baby ducks to decorated the sides.
Balmex diaper rash cream
Two wash clothes
One travel shampoo bottle
45 Diapers

Have a wonderful year!!