My space at The Chic Boutique ready for Christmas

Hey bloggers, sorry haven't been around for a bit. Have been busy with all the things that Christmas entails. So here is a few photos of my space ready for Christmas, enjoy! :D

Diaper cake for Baby Brother and his Wife

My liitle brother and his wife had a baby shower. Since he is so special and she is too, really wanted to go all out for them and their expected daughter. So after many trips to the store, mostly to buy more diapers LOL. Also bought some blankets that looked cute in the store, but when I got them home they looked awful. So here's my first attempt at a tutorial, please bear with me and if you have any questions I will do my best to respond quickly.

I used approximately 3 large packages of diapers (newborn and size 1) I did use pampers and luvs. First I rolled the diapers (while they were closed) up and secured with a small clear rubber band (from Sally's Beauty supply). After I rolled all the diapers I put a very large rubber band around a sturdy cardboard tube, Then place some diapers around the tube under rubber band. I made the bottom teir have four rows of diapers. Then proceeded to make 3 more tiers for the cake.

After establishing the tiers I bought two identical blankets for the bottom tier since one blanket wouldn't fit completely around had to play around to get them to fit inside each other and be folded neatly. My son helped by holding the blankets tightly while I wrapped ribbon around to secure. I did use double side tape for this and it was strong enough to hold. I do recommend adding the tape to several parts of the ribbon to prevent it from slipping or moving out of place.

After wrapping all the tiers I did take out some diapers so I could fit various items into the cake such as bottles, brushes etc. Use your imagination for this. Then proceeded to make the washcloth flowers, snails , Daisy's etc. went online to find ideas and used double sided tape and clear rubber bands to make these. No sewing involved, this way they can take the cake apart and use it. Didn't want to make a giant dust collector.
This was then placed on a very pretty cake stand, thought they could use the stand for her first birthday . I transported it by simply using a seat belt on the bottom tier and drove an hour and a half to the shower without any problems.
I hope you are inspired to be creative and make something beautiful for your next baby shower. Enjoy!

Grand opening at Wolf Whistles Salon

Last Saturday our Salon hosted a grand opening, we had the Radio station broadcasting live from our salon and had local vendors come out as well. I was fortunate enough to be asked to be one of the Vendors (My booth name is Vintage princess). Since it's hard for me to have such a large inventory , I asked the owner of the Antique store my booth is at (The Chic Boutique)  to share my space. She said yes and merchandised our booth. think she did a fabulous job!!! Here are the pictures, enjoy ;D

Handmade Roses

Thes

Here are the roses I made all finished! They were dipped in Vintage Silver German glass glitter and the stems have vintage sheet music and seam binding. Put these in my space at the shop. Hope you like them :)

Felt Flower Pin

Here is a flower pin I made for a friend last Fall, this is made from felt, hand sewn and sewn onto the pin. Going to be making more of these now that summer is over, thinking about have some at the grand opening Oct 8Th. :)

Violet

This the dress form I built from scratch for the Salon and boutique I work at. She turned out great , I was so excited to have finally finished her! The paper I used to decorate her is vintage sheet music and graphics mostly from The Graphics Fairy. Hope you like her!

Sorry haven't been on for a while, but here is "Violet" the dress form I built. Hope you like it :)