Your Baby Treasures Time Capsule: How to Preserve Lasting Memories from Baby's First Year

By Janet E. Reinhold

Illustrates how a collection of memories from a child's first year can be created by combining basic preservation techniques with suggestions on what types of items a historian may want to capture. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891406361
• ISBN13: 9781891406362
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Future West Publishing
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Practical and Inspiring....a loving tribute to your Little One!

Making a Time Capsule is truly a work of art, and who better to serve as Muse than your own baby-child?!!! And I love my old baby stuff, don't you? Even in old photographs, I see the old patterns of blankets and flooring, old toys, old books, etc., and part of me is comforted. I love to look at these simple things, and remember being a baby. ;-) It's amazing how visceral and instinctive the memories can be, too. Later on down the line, not only will your grown-up child be thrilled and tickled, but your child's family and friends will recall their own childhood memories, too, as the capsule is opened and enjoyed. Anyway, it's really interesting to read in this VERY READABLE BOOK about different materials and how long they last. I think my favorite section is "Choosing Baby's Items." I love the ideas...they are so creative! I think the "Letters for the Future" ideas are so very sweet....and really really precious, especially if the parent might not be alive when the adult child opens the capsule. I think any parent would be giving their child a very beautiful gift to do this. The Geneology section is also very interesting and gives me some ideas to trace my own and my husband's family tree. All-in-all, a practical, easy-to-read, inspiring, and spunky little book that will guarantee the memories you save will be cherished and passed down to future generations.

An explorative guide to the preservation of a parents cherished baby items

Highly recommended reading (especially for new parents), Your Baby Treasures: Time Capsule by author Janet E. Reinhold is an explorative guide to the preservation of a parents cherished baby items. In the pages of Your Baby Treasures, the reader will find why some papers crumble over time and others stay nice; what makes a photo fade and what you can do to save it; how to keep baby clothes nice for years; why you can store a lock of hair but not a piece of cake; why many things need proper enclosures when stored together; what to consider when storing electronic media.

Informative AND Enjoyable

Not only did I thoroughly enjoy reading this book, but I came away with a wealth of ideas for creating a time capsule for baby. I also found myself full of enthusiasm and confident that I now possess all of the knowledge required for successful completion of the project. I can strike out on my own in search of the correct materials to preserve my memories, now that I know exactly what I am loking for, or I can choose simply to order the materials individually or in "kit" form by using the order form in the back of the book. I was hooked into reading the rest of the book when it began by explaining why I might want to make a time capsule in the first place. Then, without the use of confusing technical jargon, it clearly covers every aspect of time capsule creation from the memory selection process to the proper paper, ink, and preservation materials to use. There is a wonderful chapter on genealogy that provides just enough information to cover that important aspect of baby's life for inclusion in the time capsule. This project could be undertaken by the parents OR grandparents of the baby. At the agreed-upon time of opening (twenty years is suggested), the "baby," who is now all grown up, is ceremonially presented with a wonderful gift of exquisitely preserved artifacts from the first year of his/her life. It is a gift of memory for the parents, but for the grown-up child, it is a gift of actually feeling, for the first time, what his/her first year of life must have been like--right down to world events that were occurring at the time. There can be no experience to compare with the unique chance to travel back in time and this book is the only ticket you need. It's well worth the price!