I wrote about Nathaniel’s album a long time ago, here. And now that he’s well past year one, I figured it was time to tackle this one:
53. Finish Nathaniel’s Baby album
The overall process I used for the album is this:
1. Some preliminary pages about expecting him and the test, etc.
2. Some pages about the day he’s born, his umbilical cord, etc.
3. At the beginning of every month, marking that month
4. From then on for every week, 6 photos and 1 layout to show photos for every day of that week.
5. At the end of every month, a page of notes about that month in his life (this needs more work for my book since i didn’t keep up with it well)
that’s it. So I planned to have photos for every day of his life and at least 52 layouts about his first year.
I ended up with 66 layouts since I did a bunch more as I felt like it. It got broken into 2 albums and honestly, It probably should be 3.
Here’s a look at one of the pages.
And here’s a small collage of all the layouts I did about the first year of his life. Most of them I’ve already posted. Some are coming up.
One more baby album down. I think I might go buy some more of the American Crafts Binder albums and break this one down to three albums.
FABULOUS! Look at all those lovely pages! What an accomplishment.
I’m REALLY thinking about re-doing or making a secondary album of my little girl’s first year (knocking it down to an 8×8 instead of a 12×12). It would look so much nicer on the bookshelves downstairs. And I really haven’t tackled an album of my little guy’s first year yet . . . but in seeing yours I think it’s do-able for me. I just need to get those photos all rounded up. (HAVE MERCY!)
And I was noticing your book list to the right. “Good in Bed” was a riot. It took me a few chapters to really get into, but after that I was hooked. It’s nice to know there are families (even fictional) that are more dysfunctional than mine! lol
I swear it was really doable. I took it a month at a time and just did them when i felt like it. it didn’t feel stressful at all. and I love having it. I’d recommend doing the little boy first since you already have something (no matter how imperfect) for the older one. I’m a second child and i know how sad it feels to have so much less than the older one 🙂
thank you for the recommendation! I have to tackle Lonesome Dove and Wolf Hall so I am diligently trying to avoid reading anything else right now but I will need something light and happy once those two monsters are done with so I’ll put Good in Bed right at the top of that list!!!
It’s so fabulous to see the layouts in a collage. How wonderful to have the baby album all done! Deb xox
i know! so great to have it done. thank you so much for your kind words 🙂