My niece Marissa gave birth to her second child in April. Her nursery theme was yellow with bees. I found some cute yellow bee things (including a few little Gymboree outfits on eBay!).
One idea that I incorporated - and I'll freely admit I got this idea from a seller on etsy.com who had a bee diaper cake for sale - was adding Burt's Bees baby products to the inside of the cake.
I also tried draping a baby blanket over the middle tier, which nicely covered the top and sides of the middle tier as well as the top of the bottom tier.
I decided to keep the "icing" decorations on this one pretty plain. I put bee theme ribbon around each tier, mostly as a way to keep the baby blankets in place (and on the top tier, the burb cloths). Two pairs of bee-themed socks are diaper-pinned to the middle tier. Some scrapbooking bee punchies are zotted to the top tier. And the whole thing is topped off with a bee toy and some yellow facecloth rosettes.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. It looks a little lumpy, frankly, but that's to be expected I guess. Probably with more frou-frou for icing, the lumpiness is less noticeable.
For more detailed instructions on creating a diaper cake, see my post about the monkey cake.
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