There is a baby shower this weekend for my sister-in-law; I’ll be decorating cookies and decorating and icing a cake (hopefully). My hand should be ‘fine’ by then! Its a jungle-themed shower (to go with their baby room) and it’s been a ‘cute’ journey of getting things for the shower, making pictures for the baby room, making shower gifts, and making The Lamp.

In the Jungle...

The lamp was a great group project, starting with me and my mother-in-law going off and getting a plain lamp, which is harder than it sounds. We needed one with a flat base, and a rod that we could enclose in bamboo. Now that I think of it, it probably would have saved us time if we just made the entire thing from scratch. The shade on the lamp was awful, so we got a separate shade. Back home, my mother-in-law covered the lamp shade with new material and glued cork to the base, while the mom-to-be and I sculpted the animals and leaves out of sculpey. We had my father-in-law drill some bamboo (its not completely hollow!) and remove the lighting switch while the sculpey figures were painted.

I think it’s cute. I think the baby probably won’t care (BUT in the years to come, will look back on a photo of it and go ‘gawwww!’).  (I made/painted the monkey and the lion.)

Tags: Baby, Craftyness, Sculpey