So, I haven’t been too good with the updates but we’re making progress. We discovered this winter that we were lacking a closet near the side entry from the garage. We hung some hooks up on the wall of the hallway but the coats ended up sticking out and were generally a nuisance.
Then I had a glorious idea. We could build a closet into the garage! I remembered that one of Oak’s coworkers made a closet into a mini mudroom – that is, they turned the closet into a spot where you could sit down and change your shoes, and had hooks and shelves to hang clothes and put mail, etc. Great idea.
Well the idea of a closet kind of turned into a “bump out”, a little room that comes off the hallway. I collected a bunch of ideas here:
http://delicious.com/carrievision/entrycloset
Then when Oak’s family came to visit the demolition began. I wasn’t really expecting it to happen so soon but given the fact that we are planning on changing the flooring, it made sense to do at this stage of the renovation process.
So, we’ve been working on this on and off along with all the other house projects (unpacking upstairs, etc). There are only a few more things we are planning to do before putting the flooring in – some painting basically. This area will be tiled along with the laundry and bathrooms that are across the hallway.
For pictures with all of the progress so far, check this out: Mini mudroom progress.
Since the crafty zone is slowly but surely somewhat coming together, I felt compelled to create a diaper cake for Alex and Virginia’s baby shower. They’re having a baby girl so I used pink scrapbook paper (OK… I also almost never use pink scrapbook paper, so it was a good opportunity to use it!). The farm animals were of course, purchased… and inside the cake was a baby bottle and some “butt paste”. Yeah. Baby stuff has the stupidest cutesy names!
This entire process was definitely a learning experience… we spent time in the diaper aisle, trying to find newborn-sized diapers. Apparently this is easier said than done (I think maybe super double coupon week at the grocery store did not help the situation), so the cake ended up with size 2 diapers. Oh well, I guess now the baby can enjoy the cake for a few months before disassembling it.. haha. 
It was pretty easy and fun to make – only took me a few late evenings to finish. If you’re finding it necessary to make your own diaper cake, you can check out the tutorial on Susie Stampsalot’s page.
I did pretty much the same thing but used yarn instead of rubber bands to hold the rolled diapers because I had no idea where our rubber bands were. Also, instead of buying a cake round I cut my own using cardboard and the circle cutter we have for drywall. Yeah, I had to add a “man tool” aspect to this project..hahaha
So yeah, there’s my first ever diaper cake. Diaper-licious!
