My "Baby Book"

Once I started printing the photos from my dad's 1950s and 60s slides, I remembered that Mom gave me my Baby Book and a box full of stuff from my childhood. I pulled it out of the closet and looked inside. Some of those things definitely belong in a scrapbook with my converted slide photos.

Mom wrote a few things in the book, but not that much, so I scanned the pages that she wrote on, and I will include them as I go along with the project.

Here's the box of stuff I have:

That's my Baby Book on top. The rest of the box is full of file folders that Mom carefully indexed for me - along with a Timeline. I inherited my love of Family History from her.

Today I completed a few more pages of my scrapbook, and I'm really pleased with my progress so far.

 

Cover

 

Title Page

 



 

First pages of my Baby Book (scanned and reprinted) along with pink borders to match my other cards.

 

 

A card from Great-Grandma Kraus, my Baptismal Certificate, my Birth Certificate (scanned)

 

Another page from my Baby Book - Family Tree, Newspapers with my Birth Announcement

 

 



I skipped forward a few pages in the Scrapbook to my favorite Christmas photos - I was almost 3 years old, and I loved Roy Rogers & Dale Evans. The card in the lower left is a scanned page from my Baby Book in Mom's handwriting about what we did for Christmas that year. I added the digital scrapbook paper and bow so that it matches the other cards I'm using in the book.

 

 

I have a few more pages completed, but several with missing information or photos, so I'll post those when they're finished.

 

I should credit the Scrapbook supplies that I used:

Cards and Papers - almost all are Becky Higgins Project Life, Olive Edition (digital version from AC Digitals); also Becky Higgins page protectors - many different sizes (designs) are being used here (from Amazon.com).

A few of the papers are from Reflections (Michael's) and My Mind's Eye.

Christmas papers and embellishments are October Afternoon, Holiday Style from 2011.

The Calendar style cards are from Heidi Swapp's free Calendar Download that I found on her blog at the end of 2012.

The stickers are almost all American Craft Thickers - various types and colors.

The actual 3 ring binder is by Reflections from Michael's.

Can't wait to get some more slides from Dad later this week and ask him and Mom about some of the photos that I already scanned.