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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Documenting Our Family: Photo Albums
In the bad old days before Scrapbooking there was a thing called photo albums. Most of Kieran and Merenia's pictures are in photo albums. But I am working to get them into scrapbooks now. We hardly use photo albums at all now except as a place to put photos waiting to be scrapbooked. But when I did I recorded the approximate dates the photos were taken (this also being the time before digital photos told you everything you needed know, provided your cameras clock is set). I recorded the name of the negatives and any details I felt likely to forget or that were of interest.
♥Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Documenting Our Family: Special Albums
Each of the kids has what I call their 'special albums'. These albums include a collection of some favourite photos. The rationale behind them is that they will have a selection of really nice pics of themselves (and each other) that they can take with them when they leave home... but without the bulk of a scrapbook...
(Saskia's)
(Will's)
The big kids have both finished their first special albums and when Will came along I went looking on Trade Me for something to suit him and found cbdjoe who made me three custom albums in the colours I chose. (I added the letters on later.) I am really happy with the service and the quality of these albums.
♥Monday, February 9, 2009
Documenting Our Family: 1st 5 years Books
Each of our children has a First Five Years Book as well to make things easy they all have an Ann Geddes one (this was a hell of a mission when Will was conceived to find one of the old Layout ones with a different cover than the other two!!-hooray for the internet!)
These started 'PS' (Pre-scrapbooking) so there's probably a lot of stuff in there that would now go on scrapbook pages which it will as well in Will's case and hopefully as I back track over the kids photos.
You'd think that that Mira's would have the pumpkin one... but who knew when Kieran was born that she would come along and be called Pumpkin! So it goes K, M and W from left to right...
The intention is that the kids will get these when they are old grown-ups with their own kids in the pipeline (so they'll appreciate them). I did my very best to make sure I kept up with them - it was a lot easier when we lived in Australia.
(Will's)
(Merenia's)
I also wrote the kids periodic letter's about what they were up to and funny things they did and said. Intially I put them in the spare pages at the back of the book but that soon filled up so I stapled the letters to the back page of the book. (Gotta love that 'Ocker' Stationery!)
It's also a good place to store little anecdotes from the day... (although I suspect these would go in a scrapbook page now days). You gotta read these... (from Kieran's book)
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These started 'PS' (Pre-scrapbooking) so there's probably a lot of stuff in there that would now go on scrapbook pages which it will as well in Will's case and hopefully as I back track over the kids photos.
You'd think that that Mira's would have the pumpkin one... but who knew when Kieran was born that she would come along and be called Pumpkin! So it goes K, M and W from left to right...
The intention is that the kids will get these when they are old grown-ups with their own kids in the pipeline (so they'll appreciate them). I did my very best to make sure I kept up with them - it was a lot easier when we lived in Australia.
(Merenia's)
(Will's)
(Merenia's)
(Merenia's)
I also wrote the kids periodic letter's about what they were up to and funny things they did and said. Intially I put them in the spare pages at the back of the book but that soon filled up so I stapled the letters to the back page of the book. (Gotta love that 'Ocker' Stationery!)(Kieran's)
It's also a good place to store little anecdotes from the day... (although I suspect these would go in a scrapbook page now days). You gotta read these... (from Kieran's book)
♥Saturday, February 7, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Documenting Our Family: Plunket Books and First days Diaries.
All children in New Zealand get Plunket Well Child books and we arranged for Merenia to have one too despite the fact she was a wee Aussie baby. I've recorded a bunch of developmental stuff in there and all the medical stuff from their early years- illnesses and medicines etc.
The other thing I did for the first few months or so (which I haven't photographed) is too keep a diary of what we got up to most days for the beginnings of their lives. It was a place to record milestones and sleep habits and the tricky stuff of parenting as well as the drop dead cute stuff. For Will in particular this has been written with scrapbooking in mind- as there hasn't been much time to scrap with a baby around. It includes a couple of days where I did a play-by-play of the day with accompanying photos so I can make some day-in-the life LO's when I have the time.
The other thing I did for the first few months or so (which I haven't photographed) is too keep a diary of what we got up to most days for the beginnings of their lives. It was a place to record milestones and sleep habits and the tricky stuff of parenting as well as the drop dead cute stuff. For Will in particular this has been written with scrapbooking in mind- as there hasn't been much time to scrap with a baby around. It includes a couple of days where I did a play-by-play of the day with accompanying photos so I can make some day-in-the life LO's when I have the time.♥
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Documenting Our Family: Pregnancy Scrapbooks
When I was pregnant with Will I made the kids all a pregnancy scrapbook- they are just little 6x6 mini albums with the following info...
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1. Title Page
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2. Conception
3. Traditions (this talks about the new things I brought on the day I found out I was pregnant- a diary, a toy and an item of clothing)
4. 1st Trimester
5. 1st Peek (this is the pics from the 8 week ultra-sound)
6. Side effects (pregnancy symptoms- like all day morning sickness!)
7. 2nd Trimester
8. Babes Anatomy (20 week scan pics)
9. "Sharon or Darren" (our short list of names).
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10. Moving and Grooving- the time I first felt the baby move etc
11. Caring for you- the names and details of our health care team.
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12. Dad's Thoughts
13. 3rd Trimester
14. A pregnant belly shot
15. Baby's Nickname
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16. Cravings
17. Your Space (the place we brought the baby home to.
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18. Your Birth
19. Reflecting Back
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20. You.
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1. Title Page
2. Conception3. Traditions (this talks about the new things I brought on the day I found out I was pregnant- a diary, a toy and an item of clothing)
4. 1st Trimester
5. 1st Peek (this is the pics from the 8 week ultra-sound)
6. Side effects (pregnancy symptoms- like all day morning sickness!)7. 2nd Trimester
8. Babes Anatomy (20 week scan pics)
9. "Sharon or Darren" (our short list of names).
10. Moving and Grooving- the time I first felt the baby move etc11. Caring for you- the names and details of our health care team.
12. Dad's Thoughts13. 3rd Trimester
14. A pregnant belly shot
15. Baby's Nickname
16. Cravings
17. Your Space (the place we brought the baby home to.
18. Your Birth19. Reflecting Back
20. You.
♥Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Documenting Our Family: The start.
Our children and in fact our family has a lot of stuff written about it. And I have been meaning to start a series of blog posts on just what I do for quite a long time. As I have nothing creative to post here today I figured I'd start. At the start.
With the news of each pregnancy I raced out and brought a diary, a toy and an item of clothing.
The diary (unreliably) records day-to-day life while I was pregnant and give the baby a little bit of background on where and what we were at when this baby was being grown and also a little history.
In the back I write a calendar marking Dr's and midwife visits, scan appointments and such. I also have a page for side-effects and when they came and (hopefully) went. And a page for prospective names....
I was never particularly dilligent with the day-to-day stuff but the diaries have most of the basic info which was great when I went to make their pregnancy Scrapbooks and I think will fulfil the task of letting Merenia and any future daughter-in-laws I may have know what it was like for me.
The diaries are kept in their memory boxes.
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Pregnancy Diaries.
With the news of each pregnancy I raced out and brought a diary, a toy and an item of clothing.The diary (unreliably) records day-to-day life while I was pregnant and give the baby a little bit of background on where and what we were at when this baby was being grown and also a little history.
In the back I write a calendar marking Dr's and midwife visits, scan appointments and such. I also have a page for side-effects and when they came and (hopefully) went. And a page for prospective names....
I was never particularly dilligent with the day-to-day stuff but the diaries have most of the basic info which was great when I went to make their pregnancy Scrapbooks and I think will fulfil the task of letting Merenia and any future daughter-in-laws I may have know what it was like for me.The diaries are kept in their memory boxes.
Here's the start of Will's...
♥Monday, February 2, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Hello my name is...
Some digital LO's inspired by The Daily Digi...
Credits: Template from The Daily Digi, Papers Michelle Coleman, Alpha's Manda J Designs, Embellishments; Ami Collofello, Chrissy W, Michelle Coleman, I am going to have to get better at keeping track of the digital materials I use if I am going to do this more!
Credits: Template from The Daily Digi, Papers Michelle Coleman, Alpha's Manda J Designs, Embellishments; Ami Collofello, Chrissy W, Michelle Coleman, I am going to have to get better at keeping track of the digital materials I use if I am going to do this more!
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