Back in August 2024 I took a class called Handmade Happiness Stationery Box. Yes if you know me you know I’ve made many of these type boxes before and varied the sizes to what I wanted to do with it. My favorite was the ones I did for the quilt retreat focusing on the logo girl silhouette. I took this class because Maymay (Maymay Made It) had made it bigger yet and changed it up in how she constructed it. After creating my Magnolia version, (that’s what I like to call it) during the class I got to thinking of ways I could turn it into even more of a traditional style stationery box. My daughter Shanna Kayla Ellis came over and saw it and she loved its concept. She said to me that she wanted to do something very special for someone and we got into the conversation about different things that could be done and out of that conversation came the Collaboration of what I’m calling LETTERS TO MY CHILD. As we talked about what she wanted to have in this version of the stationery box it became so much more than just the traditional style stationery box. This Box has 3 main components that will cover the first 18 years of a child’s life. The 1st. and my favorite part is the letters. Each year on the birthday of the child the mother can write a letter about their year together focusing on the things that she feels important for that child to have as memories. She will then place the letter in the box in a specific section. Keep in mind that when she presents this to her child is totally up to her. My idea is that this is a gift for when they graduate high school and about to begin the independent stage of their life.
The 2nd. Part is a Double Waterfall Album that contains a picture from their Birthday Day each year and could even be the school picture each year after they start school. There is a spot for the picture and a spot to journal about the picture.
The 3rd. Part is the Milestones of the child’s life. This can be anything that the mother feels is an important milestone much like a baby book would record or something similar. It has two different sizes of note cards that can be journaled on as well as hold a picture pertaining to that moment. Each part is a separate piece of this box all neatly contained for recording memories of the bond between a mother and child and to record the child’s first 18 years for them to look back on as they age and to also share with their children when they start their own family.
My daughter and I are already working on another idea of how to use this concept and I look forward to sharing that one when it is done. Below enjoy looking at this version which my daughter presented to her friend as her very special baby gift. I have blurred out some of the added personal information so forgive my not so professional way in which I did that. Enjoy and let your minds soar with what you would put in a stationary box of this kind.