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10 Coolest Baby Shower Cakes

SunnyChanel — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:30:00 GMT

After discovering a very disturbing and totally creepy baby shower cake (which you can check out here), I started to think about the other side of the bakery aisle. The tasteful, stylish and pretty celebratory concoctions that have been presented at baby showers.

Here are ten of the coolest baby shower cakes floating around the internet, having their likeness saved for prosperity before they disappear into partygoer’s tummies.

Baby Shower Rubber Duck Cake (above)
Who doesn’t love a rubber ducky? This cake pays homage to everyone’s favorite bath toy in the form of a pair swimming through a sea of icing. And best of all, the ducks can be recycled and actually used for the baby, which isn’t the case of 90% of cake decorations out there. You can get the instructions on how to create your own right here.

Classy Cake
This is pert near the opposite of a tacky joke shower cake. This baby is all sugary sweet class. This is from Pink Cake Box here.

The Belly Cake
This fancy fondant cake is a tribute to the belly in all its pregnant glory. It’s cute, kinda sexy and highly entertaining. But cutting it open for serving only seems appropriate if the honoree is scheduled for a C-Section. You can check out that cake here.

The Twin Cake
For those expecting double the trouble, here’s a cake for the soon-to-be mom of twins. Two baby carriages, oodles of number twos and bottles and pacifiers galore decorate this towering cake. This cake is from the Sugar Loft Cake Shoppe in Osage Beach, MO right here.

The Photo Cake
The mom who is about to have a baby once was a baby herself. The photo cake is a reminder to all about the cycle of life (the happy part of the cycle that is). This cake was found right here and is one you can easily get done at a bakery near you.

Retro Style
This is one of my favorites of the bunch. Simple, stylish and totally retro. It looks like a cake that could have been featured in McCalls in 1972. Sparkle Cakes created this polka dot silhouette cake, you can check them out right here.

Baby Takes Over the Cake cake
Who’s baby shower is this? It’s all about the baby right? This cake puts the baby front and center as the focus point of the baby blue masterpiece. Yeah, it’s all about him. This was created by Pink Cake Box here.

Pink & Polka Dots
By the time I got to this cake, I realized that polka dots seems to be a strong theme and motif for baby shower cakes. Is it representing the mother’s egg, her womb, her belly? Or is it just that dots are cool? Yeah, I thought so. By Sublime Slice here

Baby Blocks
Why have one cake when you can have six? This series of square cakes are based on the basic baby blocks announcing the sex for all to see. The creator of this cake is here and boy must their arms be tired...that's a whole lot of sides to frost.

Rump Cake
I can’t figure out if this cake is cute or tacky. I’m totally on the fence. But I do know one thing…there are polka dots on it! People often say that baby's are cute enough to 'eat', this cake takes that pretty literally. This bottom was found here.

Let's Hear it for Cupcakes!
Yeah, I’m a sucker for a cupcake. These from the UK here.

Which one is your favorite?

Stop Sending Palin Baby Presents

JeanneSager — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:03:00 GMT

So the economy's in the crapper, and parents are cutting back on everything from Santa to travel. So why are gifts pouring into the Palin household?

The former (so happy to say that) vice presidential candidate's father, Chuck Heath, told Grandparents.com that gifts for granddaughter Bristol Palin's soon-to-be born baby boy have been piling up from around the world. Really, this is what people are spending their money on?

In case none of you remember, the Palin family isn't exactly hurting. Mom just got offered a raise by one of the commissions she helped appoint (OK, OK, she turned it down - but who is actually getting offers for EXTRA money in their paycheck this year?). Then there are all those RNC shopping spree clothes (including that Ramones tee for a tot).

Bristol Palin does not need our charity. But at last count, Chuck Heath says there are one hundred thousand gifts waiting for baby boy Johnston. Yes, you read that right - one hundred thousand.

He admits she'll probably never use them all (ya think?), but I've yet to hear any offers to give these things away to a pregnancy center or maybe make some Christmases brighter around Alaska.

We get it, some people actually liked Sarah Palin. If you really want to pay tribute to her, how about donating some gifts in her name to someone who could actually use them?

Ooh, I know, how about one of those centers for pregnant teens she cut funding from? Just a suggestion.

Image: Reuters Via ParentDish

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Is it fair to take pictures of Britney's kids?

Brett Singer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:53:00 GMT

You may have heard about the photographs of Britney Spears smoking while 2-year-old Sean Preston was playing with her cigarette lighter. Well, the actual photo doesn't quite show that. Here it is:

Now, far be it from me to disagree with the celebrity media machine, but this doesn't look as bad as it sounds. In this pic she looks to be taking the cigarettes away from her child. That would be the right thing to do. The better thing to do would be to not smoke at all, and especially not in front of your kids. Second-hand smoke is very dangerous, especially to little lungs. It also makes me wonder if she was smoking while pregnant, which would be much worse. My guess – and I have nothing to back this up – is that she probably was. As a former smoker, I know how hard it is to quit, and it looks to me like the Britster is quite the nicotine addict.

Here's the part that gets me: the photos were taken at her house. Why? Presumably a photog with a mega-ultra-zoom lens – a "Pavarotti", as El Federline famously referred to them on his ill-fated rap album – was suspended from a helicopter or something and took the shot through her window or on her balcony.

She's a celebrity, and over 18 (although emotionally she might be, like, 12, but let's not go there). But her kids aren't. Not to sound like a celebrity defending dipstick ("LEAVE...BRITNEY...ALONE!"), but maybe there should be a law that prevents the kids from being photographed, at least when they're at home. As someone points out over at MomLogic, they didn't ask to be in this bizarre situation.

There are celebrities whose children you almost never see candid pictures of – Madonna, Howard Stern, Christie Brinkley, and I'm sure there are dozens more that I can't think of at the moment. Of course, those people aren't the unbelievable mess that Brit appears to be. At best, this photo shows poor judgment on her part, not only the smoking but also hanging out with her kid in front of an open window where a sleazoid photographer can get a clear shot. Um, curtains? A really high hedge? Move someplace else?

Of course, if nobody wanted to see the pictures, they wouldn't be worth anything, and photographers wouldn't take them. But that's a different topic.

Here are the rest of the photos. Hey, at least she looks pretty good in her bikini.

images: popsugar.com

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Blueprint Magazine Throws a Baby Shower Without Stupid Games

Melissa Summers — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:56:00 GMT

My sister and I attended a baby shower a few years ago for a cousin. A cousin who was underage and having her first child. During this shower we were forced to play a game which involved us crawling around on all fours with vaseline on our noses picking up cotton balls. We were forced to do this while entirely sober. This was a crime against humanity, a crime Blueprint Magazine would like to put a halt to.

This Modern Baby Shower thrown by Blueprint Magazine for two expecting employees, Kendra and Rachel, is the first step. I loved the whole look and knew I'd be stealing these ideas even though I have no expecting mothers to shower anytime soon. The simple look of the shower is excellent for couples, the asian inspired menu is easy to recreate using simple take out and purchased snacks plus the decor is simple. Like the Binth alphabet print given to each mother but also displayed as part of the party decor. Brilliant.

I'm taking inspiration from the design for my sister's bridal shower next month, minus the Binth print and the great Mom-To-Be Gifts. However, I think this is the type of baby shower women are craving. No ducklings, pink, blue or even worse, games. Games. No, please, no more shower games.

Baby Shower Gifts: What Makes a Good One?

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:02:00 GMT

Over on the very delicious Apartment Therapy Nursery, they are discussing baby shower gifts: good ones, bad ones and Oprah ones.

I caught the "world's biggest baby shower" show when it first aired a few years ago. Oprah and Cindy Crawford joined forces to hand out gifts to hundreds of pregnant wives of men serving in Iraq. The sheer volume of the gifts handed out was mind-boggling, but that's Oprah, and that's smart marketing by companies like Amazon, Snugli, and Ugg.

But getting back to baby showers, got a story to share? What's your go-to gift? What's the lamest gift you received? What's the most outrageous thing you've ever seen on a registry?

Tori Spelling To Host "Couples Tupperware Baby Shower," Also Called "Hell on Earth"

Alisyn — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:34:00 GMT

Have you ever heard of a corporate sponsored personal baby shower? No? Then obviously, you didn't get an invite to Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott's couples baby shower, hosted by Tupperware. According to sources, Tupperware contacted Tori, and offered to foot the bill for the get together because "they're big fans" of Tori's work (whatever!). Maybe it's just because I've never been to one of these, but mixing couples, Tupperware and a baby shower just feels wrong. Corporate sponsorship be damned - that's gonna be one lame-ass party.

Also, I'm having just the tiniest bit of trouble believing that Tupperware was knocking down Tori's door. Tori and her skeezy hubz just oooze desperate vibes. First the garage sale, now this? What's next, highest bidder gets to name the baby? It's weird. What I want to know is, why doesn't Tori's baby daddy just go out and himself a job? What is the deal with that guy? Tori's out workin' her pregnant ass off (So NoTORIous, the aforementioned garage sale, writing her upcoming memoirs), and that guy's just... there, lurking in the shadows. Glaring. Mark my words, Dean McDermott is up to no good.

The Tupperware extravaganza had to be his idea.