HOW TO MAKE A DIAPER BOUQUET
Want to give diapers and to present them nicely?
Need a beautiful baby shower decoration?
Here is how, in easy step-by-step instructions!
First, let me tell you, how the idea of a bouquet came into being. I went to see a friend of mine who just had had a baby. For the baby, I had a sound ball, a pair of baby tights and a cuddly baby label cloth (Taggies). And I was wondering how I could wrap this up in a nice way. The sound ball was too big to incorporate into a crafts project, as I realized pretty soon. So I just put it in a gift bag. But for the tights and cloth a diaper bouquet came into my mind. At first I wanted to include the tights into the top and squeeze them somewhere between the diaper flowers but then I had this other idea: the tights fit perfectly as a kind of 'vase' for the whole bouquet! 
WHAT YOU NEED:- 16-18 diapers, size 2 or 3 - a pair of (green) baby tights or baby leggings - a label cloth / taggies or a cuddly toy or a baby cloths/burp cloth or a little towel/blanket/wash mit - an empty kitchen towel roll - ribbons and other decoration at your will - 16-18 small rubber bands, 1 large rubber band, scissors, glue, cloth peg 
DIAPER BOUQUET DIRECTIONS:Roll the diapers and fix them with a rubber band at the lower end. It does not really matter which way you roll them, just try out which way you like best. Unlike for a diaper cake, you can roll the diapers pretty loosely and it also musn't be very accurate.
Remove the center diaper.
I hope you enjoyed making your diaper bouquet! 
Seems my diaper bouquet has been used up ;-)
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Take one of the rolled diapers as your center and position approx. 6 more diapers around it, fix them all loosely with a big rubber band.
Place your 3rd diaper layer around the 2nd layer, inside the big rubber band. The 3rd layer should be approx. 10 diapers.
Take the empty kitchen paper roll and stuff your Taggies into the upper part. It still needs to stick out a bit at the top. The Taggies works very well since all these labels make a very cute center. If you have a cuddly toy, squeeze the toy in the paper roll, if necessary cut the roll a bit open.
The kitchen roll with the cloth needs to fit into the middle. Just try this out but then remove it again. Also remove the rubber bands now, except for the big outer one. If you feel your 'bouquet base' is more stable with the rubber bands around, just leave either all or some of them.
Take your diaper base upside down and then put the tights over it. About one third of the diapers should stick out and two third should be inside the tights. After doing that you can remove the large rubber band.
Turn the base around again and pull one leg of the tights through the 'hole' in the middle. You need to reverse the leg to do so.
Insert your kitchen roll with the cloth through the hole in the middle and push it down inside the remaining leg of the tights. If the tights are too long, just hide the end (heel) inside the tube. Squeeze the other leg either through your kitchen roll, too or squeeze it between the paper roll and the diapers - just as it fits better.
Cut a piece of ribbon and lay it around your bouquet right over the rim of the tights. Fix it with just a little drop of glue and a cloth peg. The cloth peg can be removed once the glue has dried.
Decorate the bouquet with more ribbons, and other accessories. I have used 5 little pegs with felt hearts attached. I have also lavishly added thin straw ribbons in various lilac color shades.
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