Handmade Baby Mobile

My friend Kayleigh is due to have a baby in approximately 6 weeks yet I think I have known since the first day she was pregnant so now it is FINALLY getting closer I was so excited to make something for baby Scarlett. (Yep..Kayleigh has picked the named already and has enough clothes for Scarlett until she is at least 5! Ok that's an exaggeration but she does have clothes ready up to 12 months old! Organised woman!!) I knew that I didnt want to just buy her something because that just wouldnt have been 'Me'. So I took on the challenge of making a baby mobile. As the sex of the baby has been known for a while now I had plenty of time to make it and I knew it had to have pink in it! I opted to go with some birds, trees and flowers on the mobile as "fingers crossed" it goes with Kayleigh and Craigs theme!

The body of the mobile is the inside of an embroidery hoop that was bought from ebay. I used two different sizes and wrapped them both in ribbon. The trees were made first with felt and mini pom poms (to replicate apples). The birds were made again from felt but I added individual beads on the wings and a button for an eye. And for the flower, they were made from felt and a button. I made some mini flowers for the middle hoop but instead of adding buttons for the centre i glued on some bells. All of this was hung on by some pretty  pale blue ribbon.

I enjoyed every moment of making this and hope baby Scarlett enjoys, ermmm, looking at it :)

Heres a few close up pictures...

Yep...I wrapped it up in a Pizza Express box! Its the only box it would fit in! I made it look pretty inside though with tissue paper and shreddings and wrapped it all in hot pink wrapping paper (of course.)

What do you think?

Have you ever made something like this?

Lauren x