Good News!

Hello everyone, Some of you know about it already, especially the ones following me on Instagram, our little princess was born last week on 09th September and we are very happy parents.

GOOD NEWS #1

She is called Ella and she is the sweetest baby in the world. She came 10 days too late and I had quite a tough time waiting for her, but I was so happy when she finally showed up that I forgot all about it!

But as you know, good news is like buses, you always have more than one piece arriving at once. That's why I decided to write a good news post today.

GOOD NEWS #2

Yesterday, I was so pleased to see my first interview in  a print magazine: COUCH. I was interviewed together with my friend Inga from the blog glomerylane about flowers and about our #2flowergirls project. I am also happy to tell you that #2flowergirls will be returning on the blog at the beginning of October, and that we have chosen the dahlia for this new edition.

GOOD NEWS #3

My friend Igor is on holiday and he asked a couple of bloggers to guest post on his blog while beeing away. Today, it's my turn with a happy bouquet for the happy interior blog.

GOOD NEWS #4

Last but not least, I can show today a project I have been working on for a while. I made a floral guide of Hamburg for the new issue of sisterMAG, and something tells me that you will be able to read the complete feature in German and English very very soon!

So enough for today! I am returning to baby love. I will take a little blogging break in the coming weeks, but I asked some of my blogger friends to write some blogposts about childhood, while I am learning to become a mother. So stay tuned!

xxx

Elodie

Pimping Baby Love's clothes - Iron transfer tutorial

Good morning! I am back today with another little DIY tutorial. Last week I presented you my little pink cloud body using stencil printing. Today I want to show you how to pimp baby (and adult of course!) clothes by using iron transfers. I bought these lovely transfers on the Isemarkt in Hamburg from the lovely shop kinder+raum. The designer Evy has got a stand on the market every Tuesday. It is of course also possible to buy the transfers online or in a couple of shops in Hamburg. Here is what I made for baby love and how it goes:

1. Select the pattern you want to transfer and the item of clothing.

2. Position the transfer on your fabric and place it on something hard - a wooden kitchen table would work better than an ironing board.

3. Place a sheet of baking paper between the fabric and the pattern before ironing. Set your iron to 150 to 160° C and press against the fabric with a lot of pressure for 20 seconds. It is important to press and not iron.

4. Peal off the plastic film et voila!

Here are a couple of examples of what I did for baby love.

The colourful bodies are from petit bateau, the white body and kimono style t-shirt from C&A, and the muslim squares from Budnikowski. The patterns are from kinder+raum and the paper box is from Tiger

I hope you like it. It is a very easy and economical way of pimping your plain baby outfits and bodies. Take care and have a nice day.

Elodie

My sweet virtual baby shower

Dear all, I have been wanting to write this blogpost for a while now. As you know I am expecting a baby in the coming weeks and in the US there is this great tradition called "Baby shower".

The original intention was for women to share wisdom and lessons on the art of becoming a mother. My blogger friends are the wisest and the great Katharina from the beautiful food-blog Katharina kocht, organised a great virtual baby shower for me with the best blogger crew in Germany. My party was everything but traditional and there were not only women invited! But there was a lot of wisdom going on!

I got up on 8th July and was so overwhelmed with the surprise. It didn't stop all day, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. I received so many lovely messages and blogposts full of love under the hashtag #MADAMELOVESBABYSHOWER.

Here is a little overview of my virtual party for you:

Decoration & flower inspiration:

From left to right and from top to bottom:

• Lovely BABY LOVE Lavender letters from my #2flowergirls colleague and friend Inga from the blog glomerylane
• Sock bouquet for my baby girl from Ann-Christin, from the blog hafenmaedchen
• gorgeous mobile from the my dear Claretti from the blog tastesheriff

DIY Inspiration From left to right and from top to bottom:

• A pennant banner tutorial from Martina from the blog FormTiere
• A DIY nappy bag from Caro from Draußen nur Kännchen
• A baby announcement card - amendable and printable from Dani from the blog cozy and cudly
• A tutorial for a lovely colourful bib from the blogger and fabric designer Susanne from Hamburger Liebe
• The lovely logo for the party was designed by my friend and jewellery designer Trixi from the blog Frau Sieben
• The PSSSST.... frame is from Sabine from the Blog Wohnbedarf, also shop owner at Freundts, where you can buy those beautiful letters.
• Julia from the blog mintlametta, made a great tutorial for a homemade baby book

 Shopping guides From left to right and from top to bottom:

• My friend and wedding planner Eva from the blog Jagentin gave me some tips for a great baby card
• Igor from Happy Interior Blog and Ricarda from 23qmStil know me very well and they know that I am using most of the time from my maternity leave nesting and decorating the nursery, so they gave me some inspiration.

What would the blogosphere be without the food bloggers? So my sweet food blogger friends brought a lot of home baked sweet stuff to my virtual baby shower. From left to right and from top to bottom:

• Lavender shortbreads from my sweet flower girl Julia from the blog junifaden
• Sweet hearts from my sweetheart Küchenchaotin Mia
• Petits Fours à la française from Bianca from the blog ELBCUISINE
• And last but not least the great mini-handpies from the organiser of the party Katharina from the blog Katharina kocht

So my dear friends, I don't know how to say thank you and how much I love you! Baby Love is so looking forward to meeting you all in real life! Speak to you soon,

Elodie