Wednesday, March 22, 2000 THE O A K V IL LE BEAVER B5 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Better way to keep mementoes for your children (Continued from page B6) bar wrappings - anything that will in the final collage should include a for 25% off the M int's Tiny Treasures picture o f the baby as an adult as give a sense of what the year 2000 "...Then it becomes more baby coin set. well as recent pictures of the other was like when the time capsule is "You-fill out a little certificate, opened 20 or 30 years down the road. significant people in his or her life. of a time capsule... and they send you out a coin on your The M y Baby Keepsake Album, is `T o wrap it up, the last pages are birthday as well," explains Lewisavailable for $29.95 at Bookers, Pick It makes you think about for special memories - pictures, tick Churchman. o f the Crop (when it reopens), Cribs et stubs, a lock of hair, an opportuni things you wouldn't 'n' More and through Chapters online The albums, however, are not ty for a few closing w ords...a short at www.chapters.ca. It can also be complete. The buyer has to do some message," she says. ordinarily think about ordered through the Canadian Keep This album goes into the capsule o f the work. "By M arch o f the next andput sake Capsule Company at 257-7219. along with any other items that the year, I send people, free o f charge, child's family members think might Reflections, which is a two- or threethem down on paper." be significant in the years to come page summary (of the significant a newspaper, a calendar, a favourite events of that year). And all they or popular toy or CD - "the essence need to do is write them in," Lewisof the year" - along with a note out Churchman says, explaining that peo of." But the first few pages of the lining why they selected what they ple can take the summary inform a album are, of course, filled with the did. tion and enter the items that they usual baby-book mementos and "The last couple of pages are for consider important. "They don't have information - name, birth date, fami the babies when they are grown to put in what I give them. I'm just ly tree, pets, hospital bracelet, birth u p .. .an opportunity for them to say trying to make it sim ple...W e also announcem ents...B ut there are also what they think of it all," she says, include celebrity birthdays." explaining that that particular page is pages for picture collages, hand The idea for creating these keep filled out when the child, now grown, prints, footprints, first teeth, a piece sake items came to Lewis-Churchdecides to open his or her time cap of wallpaper from the baby's room, man when her first child was born. sule and look back. The photographs and everything else from baby's bed And although she is someone who time to his or her favourite book or normally collects mementos, keeps a song. journal, and takes lots o f pictures, "Then at the end o f the year, she wanted som ething more orga you've got your birthday party and nized and com prehensive for her another picture collage. Then it daughter. She wanted to make sure becomes more of a time capsule. all the pertinent data was recorded T here's a page for mom and a page and kept safely in one place. So she for dad and all kinds o f favourite bought a large piastic container and things," Lewis-Churchman explains. started stashing m em entos in it. "It makes you think about things you Then, when her son was born two wouldn't ordinarily think about and years later and she began doing the put them down on paper." same for him, she says, "I thought, There are sign-of-times pages `There's got to be a m ore fun way to where parents can include labels, ads do th is ...' So I follow ed that idea of (fashion, computers, etc.), chocolate a keepsake capsule." Once that was d e ig n e d , Lewis-ChurchPrices in effect M a rc h 22 - M a rc h 28, 2 0 0 0 man thought about what her TO >. 1 !, children would like to have in their capsules, and the album was what she came up with. Once it is filled with photos, m ementos and accom plish ments of the child's first year, it fits nicely into the capsule. "I love to fig ure out the top 10 movies (of the year) and the 10 ten shows. I love that kind of MSKEMZIE stuff," she says. 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