8.05.2010

Next up....baby bath bed

A baby bath bed. You know when you give your sweet little baby a bath....oh....and the smell of the baby wash. and their soft skin? wait...where am I? oh right. You take your baby out of the bath and try to wrap a towel around them and not drop them because they are slippery when wet?
This little towel bed makes a perfect place to put that slippery little baby while you dry them off and lotion them up (oh the smell of the lotion...I might be a tinsy bit baby hungry....oh they just pooped all over..baby lusting is over).

Take a towel (found this little treasure at walmart for $3 (and it was originally for my towel wrap)
cut off the little stripes (cute but not what I was going for)

much better

this towel will be folded in half

You are going to take some batting and cut to fit . (the more batting you use the softer it will be for baby!)
open up the towel and put the batting on one side

do you see the batting. They should make like pink batting so it photographs better.
Then just fold the side over and pin it all around the edge.
for the one unfinished edge....I just tucked the two pieces under and pinned
 so when it was  all sewed up...it was time to embellish.

Took a strip of fabric and pinned it into place
(I actually ironed under the seams so it would be ready to go)

and made a pretty little ducky



sewed the duck on first then the circle.

Now,you just lay by the bathtub....or sink and when you naked little baby is all clean and ready to get out of the bath...just put them on the little towel bed.
and while your baby is tiny teeny you can fold up the side
and you can use it as a pillow
folds up nice for easy storage
no babies were harmed in the photographing of this towel



{ and I'm putting this in my etsy shop!}

Make sure you check out my other water week crafts!!!!

15 comments:

  1. Very sweet - love the pictures with the doll.

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  2. so cute! I wish I would've had one when my daughter was younger!! Now when I get her out the tub she runs off butt naked laughing!!

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  3. How cute! The duck is adorable. Love your baby! ;)-
    What would you do when it came time to wash it? Hand wash? Line dry? I always wonder because I've messed up a lot of things with batting simply by washing them!

    Thanks!

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  4. Great idea!! The soft skin, baby lotion, smell of baby wash.... CANNOT let myself think of those things :)

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  5. Cute idea ~ I would've loved to have one of those when my son was little!!

    Visiting from NFF

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  6. Here from NFF. Funny that you were the entry above me because I was just on your site earlier. Anyway, my sis just had a baby a month ago and I think she started getting real baths within the last couple of weeks. One of these would be perfect. I think I need to go out and get a new pink towel. :-)

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  7. What a great idea! I love the duck embellishment. Might have to make this for my next little one!

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  8. This is so cute! I love it.

    I found you through Trendy Treehouse, and I hope you'll come vist my blog. I've got a fun, easy meme up today!

    http://mischiefandlaughs.blogspot.com

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  9. Very Cute! I'm featuring this today! :)

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  10. IT's featured! :)
    Thanks for linking up!!

    http://simpsonizedcraftsandthensome.blogspot.com/2010/08/socialize-with-me-monday-til-sunday_09.html

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  11. That is so cute! I love it. Thank you so much for linking up with Beach Week.

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  12. I'm so glad glad no babies were harmed. Lol I had to re-read that comment cause the first time I thought it said "no babies were hemmed" rofl.

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  13. I had one of these when my son (now almost 6!) was born. I hadn't ever even seen or heard of them until then. It made everything so much easier! Loved that little towel... actually forgot about it until I saw this. I'm due with my 3rd baby in a month so I think I better get to the project!! lol. Thanks! :)

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