GoGo_dancer
13-09-2006, 12:43
Just been to see my best mate to have a nosy at her 20 week scan pics (so cute!) and she's asked me to buy her a journal/keepsake book.
I've had a look on the web and there are some really nice ones but I think I would really like to make one myself. (I made all my own wedding stationary last year and really enjoyed it!)
So, what things should I include? So far I've got
Main intro, parent info
due date, midwife appts and scan pics
Page for bump pics
Page for birth details and pics
Page for pics of baby with parents and grandparents
Page for list of baby gifts rec'd
First smile/tooth/curl/steps etc
Also thought of having a page for comments from family and friends to be filled in at the baby shower.
Pockets at the back for hospital tag and other bits
Anything else?
yummyyumyum
13-09-2006, 12:47
page for family tree,
babies firsts...smile, step, words, first holiday, first years birthdays( up to about 5),first day at school
I was looking at these sort of journals in Mothercare when my mum had the baby, one of them was very nice and had absolutley loads of stuff in it. You could go into a mothercare or probably waterstones to get a good idea of what to include.
I was looking at these sort of journals in Mothercare when my mum had the baby, one of them was very nice and had absolutley loads of stuff in it. You could go into a mothercare or probably waterstones to get a good idea of what to include.
My son is 3, I wish I'd kept a journal of all the cute things he said when he was learning to talk.
GoGo_dancer
13-09-2006, 14:53
My son is 3, I wish I'd kept a journal of all the cute things he said when he was learning to talk.
Ooh, good idea....a page for my first sentences, not just my first word....
My brain is working overtime on this, I'm now thinking of making a keepsake box, with a matching journal inside, then there is more room to keep bits and bobs.....
Looks like a trip to Hobbycraft this weekend then!
UpTheBlades
13-09-2006, 15:10
paint its fingers and feet and make a print you will forget how tiny your baby was
Leave lots of space for photos, I kept a diary through pregnancy and took lots of pics, me pregnant on holiday, their Dad faking a bump on holiday, our cat, me later in pregnancy and then we were able to start adding Dad in scrubs, me just after the birth with the twins etc etc etc so it becamre an illustrated diary of life before they were born and as soon as they arrived.
have got very little time to add info right now (but we have got twins) but I write allt he important info on the calendar so I can update their books when I get time.
Maybe a calendar would help, would be nice if it matched too.
paint its fingers and feet and make a print you will forget how tiny your baby was
Every time it's christmas, father's day or my husbands borthday, I get my little boy to do his hand and footprints in the card, thats a really good momento.