Baby's Christening Gift - Traditional Yet Modern?

I bet you know of the good old English tradition to keep the top tier of your wedding cake for the christening of your first child? It is a lovely idea - if your cake lasts that long and you had a cake in the first place!

As times change, traditions evolve and other ideas gain popularity. A typical baby shower, baptism or naming ceremony feature these days is the artistically created nappy cake - although nappy ships or nappy trains also exist. These form an eye-catching centre piece on the table or grace the shelf in baby's nursery until consumed.

In fact, that is precisely what I like about nappy creations. They are stunning to look at, you can keep them for as long as you like yet pretty much every element can be used by your baby! Well, you do need to watch out for the size of the nappies as your baby may grow out of them if you keep the cake for too long...

Disposable nappies are rolled or folded into fantastic creations, intermingled with other useful baby health care items like cotton wool buds, paper tissues or wet wipes. Baby wash gel, shampoo or body lotion are also essential ingredients in these designs.

Often enough, it is the colour of the health care packaging that will determine the overall colour scheme of the nappy cake, train or ship. For instance, for a classic pink design, baby brands such as Hipp, Bübchen, Penaten or Bebe are used, a blue design will use Bübchen. If you prefer organic products, you will need to go for the brand Weleda which turns the overall colour scheme into orange or yellow.

Other useful baby products are often integrated in the different designs such as baby feeding spoons, soft toys, mobiles or bath towels.

But if you are looking for the real icing on the cake then you will choose a personalised design which may include a wooden beaded dummy chain spelling out baby's name, a personalised cotton hat or a molton towel (useful for burping baby!)

Once completed, the nappy creations are wrapped in clear cellophane with coloured paper snippets and packaged in a box suitable for sending directly to the lucky baby. How much easier could it get?

These and other lovely gift ideas can be found in my shop, http://www.international-baby-shop.com. I should add that I only advertise products that I myself, as Mummy of 3 kiddies, would use on my own family. In fact, we did use the top tier of our wedding cake for my first daughter's christening but these nappy cakes have been a fun alternative for my son's christening and my second daughter's birthday.

Julia Heidstra,

Mother of Joanne (5), William (3) and baby (3 months)

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