Your Babies Journal is a very important part of your new Babies history and keepsakes.
You may decide to buy one that is already made or you may even be given a beautiful Journal at your Baby Shower. However, if you are creative and artistic you could decide to make one from scratch.
If you do decide to make one yourself, do use the best heavy Watercolor Paper and the best cardstock. By using your imagination you could have the most unique Baby Journal around.
Choose as many signatures as you need and hand sew them into the spine of the journal with Linen cord.
For the cover you can really go to town, using quilting, fabric collage, paper collage, beading and more. If you buy a Handprint or footprint rubber stamp you can also decorate the pages and the cover with that. You may even decide to bead all inside the stamp in pastel colors just to make it even more beautiful and unique.
I love the idea of using real pockets off second hand baby clothes as pockets in the Journal to hold even more memories. Maybe a lock of hair from Babies first haircut, Babies first bib and wonderful photographs that you collect along the way.
When Babies is about 20 months old you can start having creative sessions when he or she dips their fingers in non toxic acrylic paints and puts handprints and finger paints on paper. You can also preserve these first works of art in the journal.
Share these ideas with your friends and see what other ideas you can come up with to fill that wonderful Baby Journal with all the amazing memories you can.
