Here are some wonderful quotes I have found over the years that are meaningful to new parents and babies. Taken from: http://www.miniink.com.au/quotes.htm.
If you have any more good ones, please put them in comments below, Id love to add them!
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Don Herrold
When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels.
Eileen Elias Freeman
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg
Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.
Maureen Hawkins
Every child begins the world again....
Henry David Thoreau
Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
William Stafford
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
Children make you want to start life over.
Muhammad Ali
While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
Joe Houldsworth
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
Walt Streightiff
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Joseph Heller
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
Eda J. Le Shan
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
Children reinvent your world for you.
Susan Sarandon
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
Deepak Chopra
Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present.
Jean de la Bruyere
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Ron Wild
Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing.
Donna Hedges
A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.
Barbara Christine Seifert
Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful.
Charles Osgood
Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy's heart instead of her tummy.
Author Unknown
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
Author Unknown
I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
Vincent van Gogh
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Not just for the Mini people!
Friday, November 12, 2010
Mini Ink Christmas range
Check out our new Christmas card designs!
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Totally customisable, change the words, change the number of photos, change the layout, swap colours, anything you want!
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Spell with Flicker
This is fun!!
http://metaatem.net/words/
Write anything you like and the letters are pulled from Flickr's archives to create your word.
http://metaatem.net/words/
Write anything you like and the letters are pulled from Flickr's archives to create your word.







Thursday, August 26, 2010
Photo Collage Maker
Here is quite a cool free Automatic Photo Collage Maker that produces shape collages out of your favorite pics!
http://www.shapecollage.com/
You can use a standard shape to turn your collage into, or draw your own custom shape.
Customise the background with any colour or add an image of your own.
Here is a quick sample I whipped up in a few minutes.
I could even drag and drop images out of iPhoto.
The quality is high enough to print out at a photo lab onto photo archive paper - even use as a poster to decorate a room!
If you upgrade to pay version, you don't have to look at the darn watermark (which sometimes moves to the bottom of the design but wouldn't for me today!)
Give it a try, its really an amazing and well thought out little application that is a lot of fun!
http://www.shapecollage.com/
You can use a standard shape to turn your collage into, or draw your own custom shape.
Customise the background with any colour or add an image of your own.
Here is a quick sample I whipped up in a few minutes.
I could even drag and drop images out of iPhoto.
The quality is high enough to print out at a photo lab onto photo archive paper - even use as a poster to decorate a room!
If you upgrade to pay version, you don't have to look at the darn watermark (which sometimes moves to the bottom of the design but wouldn't for me today!)
Give it a try, its really an amazing and well thought out little application that is a lot of fun!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Origami butterfies
Check out these gorgeous origami butterflies. They would look great made from coloured wrapping paper, double sided scrapbooking paper or any type of paper that takes your fancy!
How about using your newborns wrapping paper saved from all of those gorgeous pressies?!
They look great on walls or made into a mobile to hang above babe's cot.
Even make them out of paint swatches for a nice tonal effect!
Try following these instructions I found off YouTube: origami butterfly video


How about using your newborns wrapping paper saved from all of those gorgeous pressies?!
They look great on walls or made into a mobile to hang above babe's cot.
Even make them out of paint swatches for a nice tonal effect!
Try following these instructions I found off YouTube: origami butterfly video
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Etsy shop Laylalou Studio |
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Photo tip #3 - When to take the perfect pic...
Here are a few timing tips to think about when you are considering your 'baby photo shoot'


- Taking first photos in hospitals can work really well. Most babies sleep a lot during the first few days and its easy to move them around without disturbing them, but don't rush to try and get the perfect shot, even the most beautiful babies have temporary imperfections right after they are born. It may be better to wait until those little spots have cleared up and their personality starts to shine through.
- Make sure baby is not tired, hungry and cranky. Its really hard to get a good photo when they are restless. A rested, fed and content baby is much easier to work with.
- Sometimes pacifying your model with their dummy can calm them for a little while, then you can gently remove it, take a few pics before they gaet cranky again, and repeat the whole procedure. (it takes time and patience!)
- As an alternative, photograph while asleep. They are surprisingly durable and resilient to being moved about and a calm relaxed face is beautiful. Its also a lot easier to take photos of hands and feet while asleep.
- Don't forget to do a last minute model check for stray bits of food or dribble!
- You may need to try several times over the week especially if you wish to try different outfits and positions.
- Try to minimize distractions such as other people, the t.v, bright movements etc; so baby can stay focused on your face.
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