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Win a Copy of Listography!

Here at Nested, we're giving away three copies of Listography Journal: Your Life in Lists, a soon-to-be-published Chronicle book by Lisa Nola and illustrated by Nathaniel Russell.  While Listography isn't exactly a children's book or a book for baby, we definitely see a tie-in that has to do with kids.

Listography is all about "creating a unique autobiography entirely in list form" by asking questions to be answered in list form. While you may not think you're past or present is currently that interesting, we know that one day your kids will love to read your answers and learn more about their folks. And even if it's a while before they can comprehend the concept of mom's guiltiest pleasures, they'll sure enjoy looking at the illustrations.

Children's Book Shower Bookplates

We sure love the idea of a children's book-themed shower where guests are asked to bring a favorite childhood book of theirs as their gift. Sure, you may not end up with the bottle warmer you actually need, but you're certain to receive gifts that hold a certain amount of sentimental signficance to your guests.

A downside of the book shower? The person who will receive most pleasure from the books isn't yet born and will probably have a difficult time recalling who gave which book and why when thinking back on his or her in utero memories.

That's why we created these Gifted Bookplates to go along with the books you'll receive as gifts. The bookplate serves both as a space to note who gave the book as well as a place for the gift-giver to leave a special message for the baby.

Truly Free Baby Shower Game Printouts

If you're planning a baby shower, you're probably pretty aware that some of of the online resources for baby shower games and the baby shower game printouts are kind of, well, shady. Between pop-ups galore, link farms or misleading "free" labels, we've become frustrated with the quality of games out there. And don't even get us started about the crimes committed with atrocious clip-art!

Here at Nested, we've taken baby steps (get it, baby steps) to help you throw a classier shower and have created two completely free, printable shower games for you and your guests to enjoy. No cheesy clipart and just straightforward downloadable pdfs that won't take over your computer with one wrong click. To spice the printouts up, print them on cardstock to match the colors of the shower or the mommy-to-be's nursery.

The games, we think, are pretty fun too: