Opinions wanted,,, please help.

Hey everyone,

    I know I haven’t given the real entry yet, and I can’t even promise it to be real soon, but really not a whole lot going on anyway, at least nothing out of the extraordinary. But I have a question for you all, and I would love to hear some opinions. Here it goes:

I have a baby shower that I am attending the Sat. of Memorial Day weekend. Normally I would just buy lots of smaller stuff from a registery and make a nice basket. I looked at my friends registry as soon as I knew where she was registered and nothing really caught my eye to do my basket with, meaning not lots of little stuff I could just buy, but lots of little dress, because they know they are having a little girl. Well, so the other day I came up with the bright idea of doing a scrapbook and asked her if she knew she would be a picture taker and put them in a scrapbook or just a regular album. Her answer was that probably just a regular album because she would be afraid she wouldn’t finish a scrapbook. And that she does have a regular baby book. So of course, I don’t like this answer because an album is so boring and with me working in a scrapbooking store and loving the hobby myself still wanted to see a scrapbook. I know I should remember this is for her and not me. However, I would be doing the same with going off the registry because I know her mother has bought her tons of dress as well as the other grandmother to be has too, which is mainly what was on the registry. Plus I hate going from a registry because people will buy off it and not get it taken off, so then someone else buys it and now the person has 2 when they only wanted one, which is what happened to me several times with our wedding registry. So I thought of the bright idea to do the scrapbook, but make one that would be pretty much completed minus the pictures with the major highlights of the first year. So I would basically have a scrapbooked page that I make with spots left for her to insert pictures, I would even have tape tabs ready for her to peel back and just stick the picture to, then next to that would be an insert with spaces for 4×6 pictures. So you pic 2-3 pics for the decorated page and the rest can go into the album type insert. Now for the actual question. Do you think this would be something good bad? I mean I don’t want to put the effort into making 60 pages for this, which I pretty have everything for this album in way of paper and some stickers and tape, but I would need to buy the album and the page inserts and then some baby stickers. But, then I would have to take the time to make the pages and if I start tonight I would need to make an average of 7 pages a night before the baby shower. Would this be something you would want if you were having a baby? Or would you rather someone go off the registry and possibly get double to triple what you put there and get more dresses when you have more then enough that they are going to grow out of? What do you think? Thanks for going through all that. Have a great day!