Wallpaper art

My home is having wallpaper envy with Mini Moderns Colour Me wallpapers. The above photo shows the Tick Tock print which is designed to be coloured in. I can just imagine my kids faces if I told them they could colour in on the walls! What a gorgeous keepsake it would make, though.....

The above photo is courtesy of Famille Summerbelle's blog.

My baby keepsake list

I've been sorting through the baby memory boxes for my kids and thought it would be interesting to make a list of all the things I've kept from their baby days. So here it is....

• Pregnancy scans
• Hospital ID tags
• Hospital crib labels
• Congratulation cards & emails
• Birth and hospital photos (including one of my daughter dressed up in a Christmas outfit - she had to stay in special care on Christmas Day - oh the memories that photo brings!!)
• Birth announcement emails & letters
• Favourite baby outfits
• First shoes
• Birth certificates
• Memory books (still writing in them!)
• 2005 coin set (gift for my son)
• First christmas outfits

My kids and I love looking through these special things. In fact they love it so much I have to fight hard to get them all back in the box and put away safely! I'm sure there are heaps of other things I could also have kept...  

What have you kept?

Mini Gaga giveaway

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The gift pack includes our gorgeous BABY ARK Memory Box - Pink, alphabet & number stickers to label your memory box, and a Pearheads Baby Memory Book to record your baby's special milestones and events.

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What is a memory box?

At The Memory Shelf we love to create memory boxes. Not only to keep our memories safe for the future but also to keep our memories organised. But what is a memory box?

A memory box (or keepsake box) can mean different things to different people, but essentially it's a place to store your special keepsakes. Baby, birthday, school, art & craft, holidays, photos... the list is endless and all are fantastic to keep and treasure. But often we get so caught up in our day-to-day lives that our keepsakes get lost in the clutter.

But the good news is that organising our memories and keepsakes doesn't have to be hard work. Sort through the keepsakes you've kept for your baby or child, and decided which items you want to keep.  Put them in your memory box and label the box with their name. Keep the box accessible so you can keep adding to it. If you run out of room you can start to organise them by categories... baby, art & craft, birthday and so on.

We will be sharing all our memory box projects here so keep an eye out for more ideas.