Everything you want to know about Our Christmas Memories, before you pre-order
Every year it's the same. The Santa photo ends up in a drawer. The kids' wish lists get binned with the wrapping paper. There are nine hundred near-identical photos on my phone, and by February I genuinely can't remember what they were most excited about, or the funny thing my youngest said at lunch. It's not that those moments didn't matter. There was just never one place to keep them.
So I made one. Our Christmas Memories is a keepsake journal your family fills in every single Christmas, year after year, in the same beautiful book. Not a diary you finish and forget. A record of who came, what they wished for, the food, the chaos, the traditions, and the photo that matters most each year.
But isn't it just a journal?
This is the honest bit, and it's the thing that matters most. For the same money, most "keepsake" journals hand you blank pages and a title, and leave the rest entirely up to you. Beautiful, and then completely daunting, which is exactly why so many end up half-finished in a drawer.
Ours is full of thoughtful prompts, the kind of questions you'd never think to ask, so it actually gets filled in.
An ordinary journal
- Blank pages and a title
- You decide what to write
- Easy to abandon
- Half-empty in a drawer
Our Christmas Memories
- A prompt on every page
- Questions you'd never think to ask
- Tells you what to capture
- Actually gets filled in
Our Christmas Memories
Burgundy or forest green. Dispatched end of October, home in time for Christmas.
Pre-order yours nowSo what's actually inside?
Every spread tells you exactly what to capture, so it takes minutes, not a weekend. There are pages for Who We Are, your Christmas traditions, the recipe you can't skip, everyone's wishlist in their own words, a snapshot of the year, and a reflection to your future selves. It's the small, specific details you'll be so grateful you wrote down.
A few of the questions waiting inside: Someone or something that made us smile. The foods we can't live without. What each of us is grateful for. Three words that describe this Christmas. A message to our future selves.
The Santa photo finally has a home
There are dedicated photo pages for the picture that matters most each year, the one on Santa's knee, the matching pyjamas, the messy-faced morning. You slot it in, write what the moment captured, and it's safe forever. Not lost in a camera roll. Not deleted by accident.
Made to be kept
It's a 96-page linen-bound hardcover with a gold-foil title and a ribbon marker, in burgundy or forest green. Thick cream pages that take pen, photos and keepsakes without bleeding or yellowing over the years. It looks and feels like something you'll keep for decades, because you will. And because one book carries Christmas after Christmas, you only buy it once.
What parents ask before pre-ordering
Is it really a book for every year, or just one Christmas?
Every year. It has a repeating annual structure with a dedicated set of pages for each Christmas, so the same book fills up over many years. You buy it once and add to it every December.
I know I won't keep up with it.
You don't need to. It's built to be filled in gradually. A few minutes on Christmas Day is enough, and even a photo and a couple of answers each year becomes something you'll treasure. There's nothing to fall behind on.
Everything's already on my phone.
Your phone holds the photos, but not the story: who came, what they wished for, the recipe, the year it snowed. This brings the picture and the words together in one place you'll actually open again.
We're not crafty. Is this like scrapbooking?
Not at all. There's nothing to design and nothing to cut out. The prompts and the layout are done for you. You just answer and add your photos.
When will it arrive?
This is a First Edition pre-order. The books are being made now and are dispatched at the end of October, home well before Christmas.
Why pre-order now?
The First Edition run is limited, and the pre-order price of $79.95 is the lowest it will be, rising to $89.95 once stock lands. Ordering now secures your copy and your colour at the founding price.
From my family to yours
I'm a mum of three, and I started Vanda Baby because I know how quickly these years go, and how easily the ordinary details slip away. I made the book I wished I'd had: somewhere simple and beautiful to keep our Christmases before they blur together. I hope it does the same for your family.
Our Christmas Memories
Burgundy or forest green. Dispatched end of October, home in time for Christmas.
Pre-order yours now