Shark Week!
This post is dedicated to Shark Week: for inspiring the pirate in us all and the movie Sharknado.
{a handmade card is such an easy alternative to the grocery store offering}
In lieu of flying to Texas during my friend's 8th month of pregnancy to decorate the nursery for her, I pinned pirate themed ideas to my pinterest board and mailed her a gift box full of the cutest pirate themed items I could find...
{Pirate Booty}
Here's what I included:
- Scull and Crossbone Hand-knit Baby Booties via Etsy here (the woman was super nice and even included an eye patch)
- Hooded Shark Towel via Target here
- Pirate Bathtub Squirters via Target here
- Pirate Nap Book (about learning colors) via Target here
- A couple brightly striped outfits found at Target and Old Navy...
- And a bag of my favorite snack for the Mama, Pirate Booty!
{Treasure Box made out of a plain white mailing box drawn with markers to look like faux wood grain}
{tiny booties}
{my pirate box ready to ship - I used black tissue paper + skipped formal wrapping paper}
She picked a pirate themed nursery based off of the bedding she had selected, but I could imagine this working for many other baby room themes: farm animals, the alphabet or flowers for a baby girl?
Sometimes you just can't be everywhere you would like to be, mailing a care package makes the distance more bearable. Seeing a picture of little Luke two months later in his eyepatch wasn't bad either...
{Baby Luke as Blackbeard Baby "Shiver me timbers!"}