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I saw the cutest little idea whilst browsing Pinterest of diaper babies. We call them nappies in the UK, so I took it upon myself to made half a dozen Nappy Babies, and then bundle them up with other new baby goodies to make a gift basket for my sister and brother-in-law who are expecting a baby girl in October. We presented this to her at their Pink Flavoured Baby Shower that I hosted recently for them.

Here’s how my Nappy Babies turned out….how cute are they?!

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They are made up of a disposable nappy, a sock for its hat, and some muslin for the blanket – you could use washcloths instead. A couple of googly eyes and instant cyoot!

I then placed the 6 nappy babies that I made into a gift basket that I put together for my sister and brother-in-law as their baby shower gift.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

 

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog
They loved their gift basket! Here’s how I did it :)

I bought a pack of newborn nappies, some pink muslin cloth, patterned baby socks and some stick-on googly eyes.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

I started by rolling up 6 nappies (one for each nappy baby) and securing with some cello tape.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

I cut the muslin down into smaller squares, and created a triangle shape and begun to fold it around the nappy, about a third of the way up, tucking it in at the back to secure it in place.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

To make the little hats, I folded back the socks – one inside out, the other the right side round – just to add a bit of difference to each nappy baby.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

I then carefully placed the ‘hat’ onto each one, before sticking on a pair of googly eyes, because googly eyes make everything look cute!

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

With all the nappy babies made, I turned my attention to putting together my new baby gift set.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

I had already bought some clothes for my niece, as well as some bath toys. I also bought some baby lotion, shampoo and bubble bath, which I customised by designing and printing my own labels.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Whilst transferring my own design onto baby vests as decoration, I made an extra one with the following…

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

With all the goodies to go inside the gift basket to hand, I set about with the assembly job! Starting with some pink crepe paper to bulk out the bottom of the basket.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Using up the rest of the packet of nappies, I placed them around the back of the basket, which helps keep everything else in place too.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

The star babygros went in next, followed by the custom baby toiletries.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

The cutest little watermelon (or some might argue, strawberry, but they’re wrong!) swimsuit, the jeans and top I also bought, and finally the baby vest I customised.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

I slotted in the baby converse(like) booties as well as the bath toys.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

In with the nappy babies and my basket was all ready to be gift wrapped with cellophane and a giant organza bow.

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

I also made a gift tag and attached that with some gift ribbon that I curled up. I love how the gift basket turned out, and as I said earlier in this post, my sister and brother-in-law loved it!

Nappy Babies & New Baby Gift Set for a Baby Shower at The Purple Pumpkin Blog

Watermelon not Strawberry Swimsuit!

 

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