wall art 2: placenta prints!
Since a bunch of you enjoyed the baby room cuteness I sourced for you in my last cheapmommy post, I'm back with another round of attractive, 100% organic, low-budge wall art to help make your nursery truly one of a kind. Check this out! Nope, that wasn't a pic of a tree. It's a print made by a mom from her, erm, placenta.
Oh, but what could be more madly one-of-a-kind than a placenta print? Indeed, pleasing designs can be made on the cheap with your very own childbirth by-products, ladies! And when you think about it, a placenta print is a literal reminder of baby's very first room...in the womb. A sentimental souvenir of in utero-ness, then. That is, if you dig that sort of thing.
Until recently I had no idea placenta prints even existed. By now we've all heard of placenta-eating and placenta-burying (as practiced by the deeply earthy Matt McConaughey). But beyond burying and baking, there's the phenomenon of printing with your placenta too! News to me, though apparently placenta prints are pretty popular, so much so you can even get step-by-step instructions on how to make them at ehow.com. Or you can dispense with the online tutorial and pick up The Blessed Babe Placenta Print Kit® for $18.99! This item comes with everything you need to make your placenta print. Except for the, uh, placenta.
As you might have gathered, Crabmom's not-so-much the type to get all jiggy with my placenta beneath the full post-partum moon, or whatevs. Even the word "placenta" bothers me, let alone the notion of painting the damn thing, and then plopping it onto parchment. Yeesh!
But hey, each to her own. One woman's idea of ick is on another woman's baby registry, if you'll permit my clumsy phrasing.
And you? Squeamish? Intrigued? Been there, done that?
Ish to the ish.