Baby Shower Gifts

My friends and family have been keeping busy.  I am happy to say I ended this weekend with my best friend Justine sharing that she is engaged!!!!! And to be ready for a wedding, possibly before the end of the year.  Well before I get into wedding mode I have 7 friends/family members having babies, and my best friend Erin is having twins.  So I have 8 babies to shower!  I have 7 beautiful babies arriving within a 6 week span.  My sister-in-law is having her bouncing boy in November.  I have been searching Pinterest for ideas and found so many.  Now i like to say that I am an organized person but sometimes I loose track of time.  Here are a couple of gifts I tried to make from my Pinterest boards.

I made a burp cloth, with fabric i had at home as well as using an old t-shirt.  I am so proud of my skills, I might be making burp clothes for all our baby showers.

Here is the "cute" side of the burp cloth.

Here is the "functional" side of the burp cloth.  I am still working on my sewing skills but I had so much fun making these, I'll keep practicing and will get better.

And the final presentation of this lovely homemade gift:

My friend pinned a wall decoration to add a nautical feel to a nursery rhyme.  I decided to make her the wall decoration but turn it into a picture frame.  (The star is a starfish). Since she is having twins I made two picture frames.

One of my favorite gift ideas is a Dr. Seuss theme.  Now my fellow teachers that have worked with me know my love for Dr. Seuss and I couldn't resist this gift idea.  I found someone who threw a Dr. Seuss themed baby shower online/Pinterest and a poetic person wrote a poem about items a baby will need based off Dr. Seuss' "Oh The Places You'll Go."  I will buy the book to add to the gift.