Many of you may know my love for custom-made things for Rory. I love making everything from cups, to plates, to books. I love making Rory books because I get to create stories and put pictures of her family in it, and Rory loves reading books! A few of her favorites include: Rory’s ABC’s and Go Shanny Go (made by my sister)! It is so much fun to see her face as she sees pictures of herself, of me, daddy, and her aunts and cousins.
Many of you also know my love for bargains! I found one today for a custom made book. It is through the company SNAPFISH; www.snapfish.com It is for a 5*7 softcover photo book for free, all you have to pay is shipping and handling, which is $1.99!
This is an amazing deal! Whenever it is time to check out, add the promo code HPREWARD and all you have to pay is $1.99 for shipping! I'm already making a book right now, Im going through all my pictures and thinking of fun stories! I hope you enjoy making these books. If you have any problems feel free to send me an e-mail and I'll be more than happy to help you. Time to get creative!
Rory has nothing but love for her baby, Kind of. (Yes, that is her name, “Kind of”, she was Rory’s 1st birthday present from my 4 year old niece, Shannon who originally named her.) One thing that we like to do is pretend that Kind of is a real baby; Kind of eats with us, plays itsy bitsy spider with us, dances with us, etc. We have recently started to get Kind of ready for bed, but it was really hard for us to put her in Rory’s big crib so we decided to make our own bed for her!
Materials:
A box: a shoe box, or any small to medium size box
old wrapping paper, or paper to wrap the box in
tape
decorating supplies: we used crayons, letters, stickers
The first thing we did was get an old box and cut down the top flaps.
To cover the box, we used some old wrapping paper left over from Christmas. I turned the wrapping paper inside out, so that the white side was on the outside for Rory to draw and decorate, which was a huge part of the fun. Rory could hardly wait to color in it, so it was being colored on while I was wrapping it!
I wrapped it up like a present, I cut the wrapping paper large so some of it would overlap and fit on the inside of the box as well (if you choose to wrap the inside of the box, this will help make wrapping the inside of the box easier).
If you are struggling for time or your toddler is being crazy, you do not need to wrap the inside of the box, the baby and blanket will cover up most of it; however I chose to wrap it. I cut slits in the corners so they would wrap nice and pretty. Again, it does not need to be really nice and pretty looking on the inside since the blanket and baby will be covering.
Finished Bed!
Then comes the fun part....DECORATING! I had many old stickers laying around from my scrap booking days, and let Rory pick out what kind she wanted to use. We also found letters to spell out “Kind of.” (Of course I had to help spell them, but Rory put them on herself!).
After it was made, we were able to put Kind of in her bed and sing to her. It has now become a daily activity where we put Kind of to bed, get her changed in her pajamas, give her a blanket, sing her “Twinkle Twinkle,” give her kisses, and tell everyone in the house “shhhh, Kind of is sleeping.”
So Ive come up with a new project- For all those people who ask me why I dress my daughter in Lady Gaga shoes, I'm going to hand them a business card with Rory's new website, and tell them we accept donations! hahah! www.roryjane.com
So I'm creating a website/blog for Rory- and hope that all my Friends and family back home can keep up to date with her progress and see all of her pictures on it too!
Today is website day! I'm working quite hard to make Rory's website successful and to share our story with others. With that said, I currently lack the time I need to put into the website due to the fact that Rory is being crazy today! This whole weekend she just felt like fussing and it looks like the fussing is carrying off into the week!
When she gets in one of these moods I tend to just let her do her own thing, whether she wants to run around and chase the cats or just read books. Today she wanted to play with tape and wrapping paper, so by all means she was taped up!
Also part of keeping Rory happy means watching the Santa Car that my dad gave me for Christmas a few years ago. She is literally obsessed with it and frequently signs "please, more car," and Rory has learned if she signs nicely and flashes her beautiful big eyes at me she more than likely gets her way.
What can I do- I'm a huge sucker for those sweet eyes and smile!
