Creative Christmas Homemade Santa Sacks

Stockings are never large enough for little boys with big gifts, so I decided to make for them as part of their Christmas gift some sacks with their names on, so that every Christmas we can put their toys in them. Hopefully they will treasure these until they are grown men.

Spiderman Bag

My Goddaughter is Spiderman mad, so for her 4th birthday I made her this bag...

Nappy Flower Bouquet

A great friend is having a baby girl soon. She already has two little boys and is quite excited to be having a little girl, so I had to make her something special...

...the flowers are all made from useful baby items, mainly nappies, but there are socks, baby mitts, muslin cloths...

...and the base is also filled with baby bits - cotton wool balls, more nappies & a little pouch I made to put nappies & baby wipes in for your nappy bag.

For a first attempt I'm pleased with the result.

Twin Girls Nappy Cake

My little brother & his wife had beautiful twin girls a few weeks ago, which is always a good excuse to get creative with new-born presents, but I also had a challenge as it had to be as light as possible to put in the post as they live overseas (just hope it arrived in one piece!).

The finished cellophane wrapped product

View of the top of the cake

View of the bottom of the cake

The cake contains nappies, 2 blankets, 2 hats, some bibs, cotton wool balls, cotton buds, 2 bottles, 2 muslin cloths, J&J baby bath, baby mitts, nail scissors and probably a few other small bits I have forgotten about.

Nappy Cake

Nappy Cake

Another Nappy Cake

Ok, so I have nappy cakes on the brain at the moment (either that or I know lots of people having babies!)

I have made a large nappy cake to be sold at a charity auction in the next few weeks

Nappy Bike Cake

One evening a few weeks ago, my husband and I sat down to a creative date night.

This is what we created...

...a nappy bike cake...

...we will be giving this to my sister-in-law as a present to celebrate the birth of her beautiful & precious bundle of love, Billy. 

Hand Painted Personalised Coasters

Last year we decided to get personal and creative with Christmas presents...

...a few years ago we had tiled our kitchen and had a lot of leftover tiles. We backed the tiles with felt and finished them off with own hand-painted designs, making a great personalised coaster Christmas present!

I was quite proud of how they turned out, I just hoped our friends and family loved receiving them as presents :)