How to Make a Memory Book for Your Mother

This memory keepsake book will remind your mother every time she looks at it how much she means to you.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Ribbons
• Family Photos
• Journal
• Printers
• Calligraphy Pens
• Glitter
• Glue Sticks
• Scissors
• Printer Paper
• Computers
• Decorative Stickers

1. Buy a beautiful, hard-backed writing journal with blank pages.

2. Purchase a few sets of stickers of your mother's favorite things (birds, cats or butterflies, for example).

3. Peruse your photo albums and pull out pictures of you and your mother, including pictures from when you were a child.

4. Take them to a copy shop (such as Kinko's) and have color copies made. Reduce larger pictures to fit on the pages of the journal.

5. Sit down with a notebook or at your computer and write down memories of the pictures you have chosen.

6. Write down several poems, quotes or Bible verses that are meaningful to your mother or to your relationship with her.

7. Write a personal letter to your mother on the front page of the journal. Tell her how much you love her, what a great mother she is and how you hope that every time she looks at this book she'll feel special.

8. Cut out the pictures and paste them onto the pages of the journal, leaving room (either on the same page or on the facing page, if the photo is larger) to write down thoughts and memories next to them.

9. Intersperse the poems and quotes you have selected and decorate those pages with stickers.

10. Wrap the book with beautiful wrapping paper and present it to your mother on Mother's Day.

Tips & Warnings

• If your handwriting is too sloppy, print out all your memories and quotes on the computer in a nice font with colored ink, cut them out, and paste them next to the photos.

• To get the best effect, buy a "craft" glue stick made for gluing paper.