And here's how the cake turned out!

I had mentioned that I was making a diaper cake, and since there were no instructions anywhere... I thought I'd share some of our section by section photos. This is a photo intensive post, so be forewarned! I started with 234 size 1 diapers from Huggies, rolled up using white, latex-free elastic bands...



"Floor 1": Counting diapers clockwise from top: 21, 32, 7, 32. We held them together by using elastic string and cutting pieces of cardboard to keep them straight. 

2nd Floor: 24, 14, 24

3rd Floor: 16, 7, 16

Backside... It doesn't look as pretty. Remind people to look up front and stop finding defects in your creations. PS: Third floor's back side is held to Fl2 by pens inserted through middle of diapers.

Front completed. Sort of.

After this point, it was getting too late. It was almost 10pm and this was 3hrs into the whole building process. We forgot to take photos until we got to this:

Finished products: We added all ribbons (9yd of double sided 1.5" black satin ribbon and 9yd of Ravens 7/8" ribbons, some small amount of 1.5" yellow ribbon to cover up two cylinders that make the posts). Also added a piece of green felt, and wrote numbers and drew lines with fabric white ink.

 

And this is what it looks displayed at the office. Even with my super crafty dad, it still took the two of us about 4.5hrs to piece this together. Total work hours may be a bit less, since we had Ice Age playing in the background. It was fun, but at 11:56pm (official time we said, "WE'VE HAD IT"), we both really just wanted to sleep.

 

Alright! Time to go join the party. I will really be regretting staying up so late last night, especially since I'm going from FT job to PT job with no breaks in between, then work til today is tomorrow, but I am really pleased how the cake turned out.

 

Enjoy your weekend, all!