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Can you recall your earliest memories?
How often are you not quite certain whether it is the actual event you remember, or just the photo of it? Yes - pictures, videos and images can hold the key to many a graphic memory - and all the more so as we enter the helter skelter of modern day living with its bombardment of fragmented audio-visual media clips. So…

Make and enjoy the artistic embellishment - the fun of playing around with graphics as a dual purpose, for:

- The Relaxation of Participating in Family Matters, Bonding Emotions and Family Values
whilst
- Creating Graphic Mnemonics, or should that be Mnemonic Graphics with Family and Baby Images, Imprints and Crafts.

Nurturing Our Family Environment
By far the most popular use that parents find for their very own baby’s footprint image is by combining it with a baby footprint poem. These two - picture and poetry - automatically bond to become a lasting keepsake that can be framed and displayed in a cabinet, on a shelf or your desk; it can also be hung on the wall. While it may grow dusty there, as do our memories with the passing of years zooming by, every so often you will catch a glimpse of the image - stop - and read the poem.

Floods of Joy Further Our Natural Family Bonding
Don’t be surprised to feel the seeping joy of your eyes growing misty and your heart warming as your memories are re-awaked and clarified again. Family life should contain refreshing moments like this as you feel yourself being transported back to the early days of your baby’s life on earth and the first flushes of parenthood. Dwell in those moments, allow the thoughts to brew and add more strength and flavor to your day.

Crafting  a Poem With Wispy Words While Surfing with Waves of Emotions

- First make the mood or atmosphere: - find a way to get back in touch with yourself. Now the simplest and best way of doing that is to relax and give yourself the time and space to do so. On another of my sites, I have a free relaxation recording that will help. Or you may just use your own inimitable and trusted way that works for you.  Once you’ve set your scene then
- Explore your emotions and let words or short sentences tumble out. Just start writing - it doesn’t matter what the words are at first because this is just splashing some sample colors of emotion to see which ones catch your eye.
- Start coming up with end words that rhyme - you don’t have to, but it can be fun and opens both sides of your brain - creative and logical. Once you get some lines down, you’ll most likely
- Get into a flow - so then just go with it and enjoy the space that you’re giving yourself.

I’m stopping there and will be posting more poetic pollo-mistics in a few days.

(Some days later - 2009.03.22: )

So now we have created our mini series of these 3 posts to inspire and give some tips on creating baby footprint graphics and composing poems to combine into a family keepsake:
1.    Expressing Graphic Emotions For the Times
2.    Baby Footprint Poetry and Graphics Masterpieces (this post)
3.    Encapsulate Your Emotions in a Baby Footprint Poem