Scrapbooking Baby

I havent scrapbooked in over 3 years. Now I have a new baby and I dont know where to start…

Start small. First organize your products.

Go through all that you have and "remember" all that you have in your inventory-paper, stickers, tools, adhesive….

Go through your photos and organize them. Decide on putting them in order of event (holidays, birthdays, etc) or just in chronological order.

I find the easiest way to get through a lot of stuff is to pre-assemble pages. Get a stack of photos and pick a background for it. Choose cardstock for mattes and any embellishments you want. If you don't have any on hand for it, write your ideas down and place it with the "page" and write it on your shopping list. (I put these into a 12 x 12 box. They lie flat and I place a divider in between the pages. This keeps it all organized and in place for assembly.)

Once you are done with that stack, crop and matte the photos.

Then create journal boxes.

Lastly, your embellishments. With your shopping list in hand, get what you need and finish up the stack.

This helps me when I fall behind as I did when I had my first child. I plug away a little at a time and doing it in this "piece mail" method helps when you are strapped for time.

Hope this helps! Best of luck and congrats on the little one.

A coworker just had a baby boy and I wanted to make her a scrapbook. They are of irish descent. How can I incorporate that into the scrapbook. I don't want to put leprechauns and pots of gold all around. I find that to be kinda stereotypical.

Anyone who is of irish descent know what would be good images or any type of embellishment that I could use?
Thanks

A shamrock background paper in pastel green would be a good start. Any type that has the celtic knot would also be appropriate as would green/gold stripes or something else kind of masculine. You might use: Irish sayings/blessings, the celtic knot symbol, shamrock and thistle (which is Scottish) symbols, the flag of Ireland, the claddagh. Print the blessing around the perimeter of the page or pictures.
Maybe you could design a few extra pages and leave the photo sections blank for the parents to add pictures.
You could make your own celtic knot with yarn or thin ribbon.
You might check at Michael's, Hobby Lobby, JoAnne's, or even Target for celtic page kits.

My close friend had a baby, her 2nd, a girl. She has a 2 yr old girl. She lives very far away. I'll be seeing the baby only after 6-9 months from now. She has all stuff, clothes that babies need.

I thought of getting her a digital photo frame (where digital pix come at random,and it also plays music). Would this be a suitable gift? She loves scrapbooking, and takes lot of pictures of her kid.
Since she will be busy for a while, I thought a digital photo frame would be a good gift so she can display photos of baby, older girl and others with some nice music in the background.

She also has a fairly big, new house, so this gift would be useful even if she has one already. Also, easy for me to order it online and delivered to her address.

So, is it a thoughtful gift or not very suitable for a "new baby" occasion?
Thanks for the quick responses so far.
It is something I've drooled over in shops, but wouldn't buy it for myself…

Maybe I just should
It's absolutely fantastic! I have soooo many pictures stored on my computer that I took with my digital camera, but I never seem to print them out or do anything with them - I wish somebody would have gotten me a digital photo frame! Do you want to be my friend ?