DIY Cupcake toppers - easy peasy!

For James' coming baby shower, we are gonna buy some red velvet cupcakes from 12cupcakes and top it up with my own personalised topper. For those of you mummies out there who are clueless to making a topper, here's my quick and easy peasy version.

THINGS YOU WILL NEED

Party sticks white. - i bought mine from Spotlight, if you want to save, you can use toothpicks.
Coloured paper - using the same papers again too
Hole puncher - using this again to keep the sizes consistent. I've used it for my DIY party bags.
Stencil - for that personalised initial touch.

Step 1: Using the hole puncher, punch 2 pieces of coloured paper to make one topper.

Step 2: Here i'm using a stencil and marking a "J" on all my toppers front and back.

 Here's how it looks like after the stencil marking

 my toppers front and back, all marked with "J" for James!

 Step 3: Stick 2 circles together with the party stick in the middle using UHU glue. And you are done!

James - 18 days old

 i think when babies wear mittens, their hands look like a table tennis bat. So cute!

Confinement Food Journey

 

Above: Lunch today

Above: Dinner today

Baby Shower #2 - DIY party bags

 

THINGS YOU WILL NEED

coloured paper

brown paper bags

glue

pen

1.5 inch hole puncher (circle shape)

ribbon

step 1: here are my coloured papers which I bought from Paper Market. And my circle hole puncher is also from there too. I'm using a 1.5 inch size hole puncher. My brown paper bags are from Spotlight. But my favourite store Daiso carries them too.

 step 2: You will need 4 circles for each hot air balloon.

 here's how it looks from the hole puncher. like any cookie cutter huh!

 Step 3: Fold the cut out into half

 Step 4: Glue all 4 halves together to form a semi sphere.

This is how the hot air "balloon" bit looks like. I'm using alternating coloured paper here. One with a pattern (herringbone) and one that is just a solid colour (green)

 All my cut outs laid neatly for me to glue them together.

Step 5: Draw the bottom half of the hot air balloon with a black marker. I drew it in pencil first before going over again with a marker. If you are confident enough, you can skip the pencil draw.

Pardon the harsh photography taken late at night as I can only sneak off some "me" time to do my party gear when all the boys are asleep. 

*yawns* 

sometimes while i wait for Jules to fall asleep, I fall asleep myself on the bed. But thinking of James' baby shower being just the run-of-the-mill kind, i will just dragged myself out of the bed because I really want to do something extra for him.

Ta-duh! my finished product for James baby shower. And I'm all ready to give them out to all the children. I've filled it with healthy snacks like Uncle Toby's yoghurt muesli bars and raisins.

 And to personalised my bag, I've left a "thank you" message at the back of my party bag and tied it up with a blue thin ribbon as my colour theme is blue and green.

here are some day shots taken on the party day itself.

xoxo

velle

James - DIY Paper plate mobiles

Newborns can see contrasting colours at their early stages - colours like black and white.
so here's what you need to do for a paper plate mobile which will aid your baby to concentrate and focus on a certain thing.

Paper plates
Thread
Marker

As I already have an existing crib plastic mobile hanger, I just needed to make the paper plates. For those of you out there you can use 2 chopsticks to form an "X" and hang the 4 paper plates at each end of the chopsticks.

have fun!

xoxo

velle

James - burping after a milk's feed

James

18 days old

Me & Jules during my confinement days

here's a super unglam look of me staying at home, in the hot sweltering afternoon, donning my long sleeve pjs.. I have no idea why I'm so "suay". Everytime or rather both my confinement days are always so hot and it never rains. WHY WHY WHY.

so. I've bobby-pinned my bangs up and bunned my hair up. but still. my neck is perspiring, not to mention my other body parts. lucky thing my son doesn't think that i smell and still willing to snug up to me for a close shot of us together.

thank you Jules. Mummy loves you too.