Unique Baby Announcement Photo Idea.

I love pinterest and due to a friend recently having a baby I have been searching through baby pictures ideas etc and came across a unique announcement idea using a clock, ruler, weights and name blocks. Now to find the Baby lol :)

I have spend a couple of days searching for items, given that my favorite eBay would not have had time to deliver and have hence found that the shops you think would have things dont...  I found that Kmart is the best place to buy weights ($8 for 2 kgs and its blue for a boy), the clock was $9.95 at a cheap spoils shop and I searched high and low in this town, the ruler is from Office works at $5.50 and the blocks are from a $9.45 peice of wood and I will show you how to make them!  

Making the Blocks

The blocks were the most fund to make!

I started by buying a square length of wood from the local hardware store, I did get them to cut the wood into squares for me however they were a cm over in length so I had to cut them all myself anyway.  I simply used another block to get my measurements.  

I brought blocks of sandpaper but found the best to be the flat sandpaper on the ground, I could hold the wood perfectly square and just run the edges along the paper to smooth them out see pics.

Once I had my smooth blocks sorted I had to work out how to decorate them, my friend wanted the plain wood color (which made my job simple) however I am not a painter and had no idea how to put the lettering on... After a attempts with some pretty dodgy looking spare blocks I realised that I would have to print my lettering in order to make them look neat!  I found a font similar to the look I was after in google images and printed them on clear sticky paper.  It was no fun cutting them out but they looked great!  

To finish off the blocks I used Rub Ons to put some nice boyish pictures on the sides and back of the blocks.  You cant see them as clearly in this pic as I would have liked but they are very easy to do once you know how.

My next job was to print out a calendar, it took a few tries of printing to find an image that had clear resolution. I once again used google images and found a calendar for Sept 2014 and printed it at half a page to get it clear enough.

It was all starting to come together!  I decided to mount the calendar and weight details on a board so that it sits very flat.  

When I finally found all the items I was looking for...  see below! Yay!  I have asked my friend to have a few props ready ie: booties, dummy, toy and fav blanket for the pic...

Now where is that baby???

Found the Baby.

Pic is not as clear as I would have wished, I am not good with flash lighting but have no trouble with natural lighting.  I may have done a few things differently but I love the concept just the same!