Owls: Take 4

Less than a month after creating my pastel owl cake, I got yet another request for an owl cake. This time, they wanted a recreation of the original hot pink and lime cake. Awesome. Can do.

Seriously, if I didn't have the pictures dated, I'm not sure I'd be able to tell which diaper cake was made when. The ribbons selected were the same, the wash cloth owls were made in the same manner with the same colors as the original, and even the crocheted plush owl was made with the same skeins of yarn. 

It was a different cake, however, created more than a year after the first one, but it was a successful recreation of the original. Granted, I did change some of the baby items, so the extras included on the cake were different, but they still coordinated with the overall color scheme. It was probably the closest "copy" I had created, though I will always state the caveat that I'm happy to repeat a theme and color scheme, but the cake ultimately will be different than a previous cake since they are made at different times and therefore, materials may be different. I have never made a copy with all the same elements and this time was no different. It was close though.

After receiving this request, the owl cake became the first diaper cake listed in my Etsy store. I had four of these cakes under my belt, each one a little different, but based on the same basic design elements - 3-tier "naked" cake (meaning the diapers are exposed), 5 wash cloth owls, 1 crocheted plush owl as a topper. Additional baby items as desired to coordinate with the selected color scheme. The thing I liked about this was that unlike some other designs which can get very specific, this one can be repeated relatively easily no matter the trends that are available in baby items. Since I create all the owls myself, I can make them at any time with readily available baby items that are not seasonal or trendy for a given year. This is one of the reasons it became a customizable design - in that the colors can change - but it can be easily repeated no matter the current popular themes of baby items available in stores. Can't go wrong with a concept like that.