Essentials for a New Baby

Here is a list of what you Really will need.

(The most essential and basic)

Baby Clothing:

• 8 Undershirts (especially if you having a winter baby)
• 8 one piece pajamas
• 8 pears of socks or booties (booties fall of easily so i prefer socks)
• 3 hats
• 1-3 dress-up outfits
• Loads of Diapers (we call them nappies) 

Baby Sleep:

• Crib/Cot or Bassinet (Moses Basket)
• Crib/Cot or Bassinet mattress. Check out how to choose your baby's mattress.
• 2-4 fitted sheets
• 4-6 light blankets
• 1-2 thicker blankets

 Baby Care and Bath:

• A surface to change your baby. (Not necessarily a changing table. You could use a bed, or a dresser as long as a changing mat and your changing gear can fit within reach)
• Changing Pad
• Loads of dipper/nappy cream. (we like to use Sudocrem)
• Baby wipes (unscented to prevent irritation). Alternatively use some pure cotton wool dipped in lukewarm water
• Soft wash cloths
• Baby nail clippers
• Thermometer
• Petroleum jelly/Vaseline
• Baby oil (to help with cradle cap)
• Baby soap
• Baby bath

Baby feeding:

• Breastfeeding Milk Pump (if breastfeeding)
• Milk storage bags
• Formula (if using formula)
• 10 bottles and nipples
• Burp Cloths

Baby Transportation: 

• Baby Stroller
• Infant Car-seat

So if you have these for the first months of your baby's life you will be covered!

Definitely there are loads more baby stuff being promoted and sold. Some of which could make your and your baby's life easier and some that you will never actually use.

Try not to get carried away in all of the new and upcoming baby products as they will never stop coming! And use your own judgment to know what is practical and efficient for you and your baby.

xoxo N.G

DIY Building Blocks for Nurcery

Started preparing the baby's room yesterday...
As we do not know our baby's gender we are keeping it gender neutral but colorful.

I started the process by looking around the house for all the little things left over from older projects and that i have been keeping such as ribbons, peaces of material, Styrofoam and anything else to get the creativity working.

So i ended up finding some wooden letters that i had purchased a while ago for a projects when Christening my sisters baby boy, some felt in 3 different colors and a piece of Styrofoam from when we purchased a piece of furniture.

Step 1: I combined these materials together by cutting the Styrofoam in to 3 same size cubes.
Step 2: Laying the cubes over the felt i measured the amount of felt i would need to cover the cubes and then with a scissors i cut them to size.

Step 3: I sowed the loose sides of the felt closed. On the last stitch i made a little loop so i can hang the cubes possible to be a part of the baby's hanging mobile.
Obviously i am not the best sower and this is a little clumsy.

Step 4: Using glue i added the letters of the alphabet to the cubes.

All Done!

Scrabble Coasters

I have been wanting to make a few DIY projects to not only save some cash but also add some character to our home. 
So yesterday my hubby and i took a trip to the second hand store; we came by an old Scrabble board game at the price of €4.00. I thought this would be a good opportunity to make some coasters for our coffee table at home.

It was supper fun to sit down and come up with four letter words that would make up a cute coaster that would be interesting to read while taking a sip of your drink.
We spent about an hour or fun figuring out the words/sentences we wanted to use. This is what we came up with:

Second step was to find a base to glue our coasters on. I could of used the actual board but ended up using the back of a couple of old photo frames that had broken over the years and were not being used.

Using some Superglue we started gluing the letters on the frame boards.
Once the letters were all glued in place we used a cutter to slowly and carefully cut the coasters in shape.



That's that! Our Scrabble Coasters!!! 

Winnie the Pooh Cake for Baby Shower

So as i have mentioned in my previous posts, we are still in our 4month practice stage.

Taking the opportunity of one of our family members expecting her first Baby Boy, we decided to Bake and decorate the cake for her Baby shower.

The whole theme of the baby shower was Winnie the Pooh and the mommy to be is planing on decorating the nursery with the same theme.

Keeping this information in mind we started baking...

Making a 3 tier rectangular cake to feed 30 people. We chose to make bottom and top layer vanilla flavored and middle layer chocolate. For the icing we used butter-icing that is the families favorite.

Baking took us a couple of hours and thankfully we have two ovens in the house which made things easier. We had the two vanilla tiers in one oven and the chocolate in the other all baking at the same time.

Obviously we stuck to the theme and wanted to take it a step further by creating something that the expecting mommy could keep.

We decided to created the characters of the Winnie the Pooh series in polymer-clay so that they could be part of the nursery decor.

Using colorful fondant and cut outs of bay bottles and strollers for the cake decor...

Done! our fist large cake project!

xoxo

N.G