Lovely Baby

Above is a gift basket Buby & Co. made last week for the impending twins. People tend to like these gifts, so feel free to steal as a shower idea! They take more time but are so much fun to assemble, whether they are themed engagement, honeymoon, house warming, new pet, or--our fave--BABY! I start with a color scheme (green to match their nursery; blue as a pretty girl accent). Then I find a multi-purpose vessel that is both decorative and functional. After Buby was born, there was suddenly no such thing as too many baskets, bins, or boxes. One for diapers, wipes, and powder in each room. One for clean washcloths. One for stuffed animals. One for toys. One for books. One for onesies. We'd need many of these to attempt "a place for everything, and everything in its place."

Sydney and Lillian (twin nieces-to-be) each received a personalized basket this weekend. In addition to the baskets were infant-to-toddler feeding chairs and Sweat Pea Boppy pillows (the mother of all inventions) wrapped in mod blue & green floral paper.

GOODIES INSIDE: Monogrammed scrapbooks (white with elegant blue & green scrolls), crocheted booties in cream, a blue cableknit blanket, four favorite lullaby CDs, a green & white polka dot dress, a coordinating embroidered dress, a pair of blue & white sleepers, Future CEO one-piece, Future Doctor one-piece (both in shades of green), cotton bed sheets in cream, sweat pea bibs, "Things I Want My Daughters To Know" book by Alexandra Stoddard (green hardcover), newborn diapers (which smelled SOOO good, by the way), a framed poem about twins--printed on designer paper--for the nursery, a monkey night light (for Dad), a Double Trouble bracelet (for Mom), a first lion, wooden WISH and DREAM signs (that I secured to the baskets with fishing line), first piggy banks hand-painted by Buby, a Jonathan Adler notepad box for next to the rocker, and "S" and "L" name tags made out of green & blue oversized foamie letters. Delicate green polka dot ribbon was later tied around each basket and also around the wrapped gifts, to bring it all together.