The First 1000 Days - Nikki McClure

Thursday, February 28, 2008

I got a package this morning from my amazing friend Laura in Boston from buyolympia.com. Inside was the most beautiful baby book I've ever laid my eyes on: Nikki McClure's "The First 1000 Days."

Nikki McClure, for those of you who don't already know all about her, is an amazing artist who works by carving images out of a single sheet of paper with an exacto knife. You can buy her art primarily as note card sets, all of which are beautiful. Here are a few of my favorite examples:

"The First 1000 Days" itself is exactly the kind of baby book that I would want- in her gift note Laura wrote "this seemed like your style" and she was exactly right! Apart from the stunning images (preview a few of the pages here), the pages have space to record all the information that really matters, not typical baby book fare; things like "the first time I touched you and saw your face," "songs we sing," and "adventures we want to take you on." There's even a recipe for homemade applesauce that babies can help with easily and a section for Mom & Dad to leave letters inside sealed envelopes written to the baby. It actually made me tear up; I just felt like it was all so appropriate to the way Davey & I plan to raise this little baby. It just made me all the more pumped to finally meet him and experience everything with him for the first time- every day that goes by I get slightly more excited and impatient.

In short: Thank you, Laura! It's absolutely beautiful and exactly something I would have wanted. How I managed to end up with such great people in my life I'm not entirely sure, but I certainly won't complain. <3