My Beautiful Mum Journals...

You could add Lessons I've learnt from you and My first memory of you.

Maybe you could add a little pocket or sleeve at the back where you can add copies of your invite, OOS, bits of confetti etc as keep sakes for her.

Thanks raincloud- I'm loving the little pocket for keepsakes, I would have never thought of that but its a brilliant idea!

Thanks x

And is there a cheeky flash of your first page...! You've really inspired me to do one for my Mum

Oooh go on then...I love a good flash!

First Page:

I've done another 2 pages today- one I don't really want to flash because its a bit personal with the words but this one I'm happy to flash:

Please excuse quality of the photo's- they're taken on my phone.

I think the journals are a really lovely idea and I'm sure my Mum will love it!

xxx

Tracey it looks gorgeous Your mum will adore it!

It's gorgeous. Well done you! You've really inspired me and my gorgeous mummy will be getting one on February 9th 2013!!

That's lovely. Something which would be totally wasted on my Mum though, so can't help with suggestions.

It's lovely - you've inspired me Thanks

Thanks everyone, I'm quite pleased with it so far.

I just want to add though that I have totally stolen this idea from the "My beautiful" journals on the Oh So Cherished website, so I can't take the credit for the idea at all. I just chose to make my own rather than buy one and add to it because I enjoy getting crafty and also- we're on a budget so its cheaper to do it this way too.

Thanks again all. xxx

Hi All,

This is an idea that I'd really like to do for our parents - The ones from Oh so Beautiful look great, but I'm worried if I buy them I might not like all the questions or pages etc.

Tracey do you mind if I ask how much it's costing you to do them DIY? I tried to average the costs of buying a book to buying the supplies but not really sure how much stuff I would need!

Thanks

Kerry ?

For me it is working out quite cheap but then as I said I am quite crafty so I already had some of the bits and bobs I'm using on the book from previous craft projects and I fell REALLY lucky with the actual book. My friend saw it in a charity shop, brand new and still in its cellophane sleeve for £2.50, its originally a photo album from WH Smiths with plain paper pages seperated with the tissue- its a lovely book and such a bargain. Before my friend saw this though, I was planning on getting a plain guestbook style book that I'd seen on ebay for about £8. Dunn Elm do some lovely crafty bits and embelishments for quite a reasonable price and scrapbooking decorative papers and things are really cheap in the works and on ebay.

I woulds say in total mine will cost about £10 not including the printer ink.

Hope that is some sort of help.

xxx