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July 2018 Moms
SmashJam
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Product Spotlight 5/28-DIY Memorabilia
SmashJam
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This is a place for FTMs to ask questions and S+TMs to share the wealth of knowledge they've accumulated on baby products. Each week we'll spotlight a new category of product to help streamline and make it easier to refer back. This week it's....DIY Memorabilia! What items did you use to keep track of baby's lil' milestones, such as scrapbooks, baby books, apps, month sticker/blocks, etc.
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Re: Product Spotlight 5/28-DIY Memorabilia
I think I’ve posted this before but I’ve been working on these letters like i did with DS. To be honest I haven’t touched them in like a month. Just wooden letters from hobby lobby with yarn. Not too expensive. These are the last two (hardest) letters.
I also worked on this ruler for DSs bday. Hobby lobby again and just sand down with some paint and marker.
Got this kit at Walmart. Pretty cheap but cool because you can make the design in your own pattern.
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They text you questions (depending on your plan it’s either weekly, three times a week, daily or more) that match up with the stage of development your baby is at and you text back an answer that it logs as a journal entry. Some of the plans let you text in pictures as well, and they will make it into a book for you whenever you are ready!
We also did a first year photo book for the grandparents for Christmas that actually doubled as our pregnancy announcement for this baby.
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discovered how quickly a baby can deplete your phone storage.
Amazon has something similar too that’s free and unlimited if you have an account.
but I’m way too lazy for all that haha.
for the photo backup suggestion!
I hsve a traditional baby book i got from B&N that has some simple pages to fill out and goes through first year of milestones. I’m also a huge fan on mpix alumina and try to make one each year as that years “yearbook”. I have a feeling baby’s first year book will be massive. How do you even narrow down what you put in the book?
DS 11.8.12
Baby GIRL! due 7.4.18
summermama18 suggestion - we did something similar with DD called Peekabo Moments but after we signed up they restricted the storage size for free accounts and ran out of space within a year. It was awesome for sharing photos with family and getting photos family snapped at events without having them plaster them all over FB - however those same family members were the ones that filled the whole thing with 45 sec videos of infant staring. My grandmother and uncle especially loved it being far away and seeing the updates. I'll have to see if https://tinybeans.com is similar enough to move over.