Fun Ways to Preserve a Sonogram Picture

Sonograms are extremely special pictures that you'll want to treasure for life. The last thing you want to do with a sonogram is misplace it in an old book or in a pile of papers. Sonograms are reminders of how tiny and precious that little life in the womb was while you were pregnant. So you'll want to find ways to preserve the precious pictures.

One way is to simply find a beautiful frame that fits the dimensions of the pictures. You can find any frame at a Wal-Mart. If you can't find a frame you love, what you can do is visit your local Hobby Lobby and make your own picture frame for your sonogram. You can decorate it with a boy, girl, or neutral theme, and add stickers, buttons, glitter, ribbons. Just make sure to let the frame dry completely if you used glue or any adhesive to protect the sonogram. You can even have the sonogram laminated to preserve it for longer and to keep dust and other elements from ruining it.

Something unique you can do if you are a little savvy with the Internet is to take a picture of the sonogram with a digital camera. Then you can upload the picture to your desktop, and then upload that saved picture on desktop to a web site like blingee.com. At blingee.com, you can add very unique and beautiful special effects without the risk or ruining the picture since you will be applying the effects to the uploaded photo. You can add borders saying things like, "It's a girl!" You can add hearts, sparkle, toy boats, baby rattles. You can manipulate colors and text. And then once you're through, you can upload the completed sonogram picture to your MySpace or FaceBook account to show off to the world!

Since you have already uploaded the picture to the computer, a good way to preserve the sonogram and create a lasting memory is to go to a web site that offers photo services, such as Walgreens (photo.walgreens.com), and take a look at their Gifts section. You can create posters, calendars, magazine covers or mouse pads of the sonogram. You can even put the sonogram picture on a mug or even make a refrigerator magnet out of it!

What you can do as well is create a very large shadow box type of frame. You should be able to find one in the frame section of a Wal-Mart or similar store. In the shadow box, you can place mementos of when the baby was born. You can add the sonogram, the celebratory birth certificate, your hospital wrist band, the little paper that the hospital gives you with the baby's birth stats on it. It's essentially a collage of birth and baby mementos you can hang up in the living room for everyone to see. It doesn't necessarily have to be a shadow box. You can get a very large poster frame, add colored construction paper and cut to size, and add the items. A shadow box would allow you to add bigger items, like the baby's first little pair of shoes or hospital cap.

Another way to preserve your precious sonogram is by making a beautiful scrap book for your baby, and you can dedicate a few pages to the sonograms, depending on how many you have. The scrap book is open to your imagination. All you need is a binder, some background paper, and little bits of ribbon, tape, glue...if you visit your local craft store, you'll usually see a scrap book section where you can obtain many ideas from. Some come as a kit with stickers and everything included. You can preserve your sonogram in a beautiful way, and add borders and stickers. I would suggest, again, that you laminate the sonogram to protect it from fingerprints, tears, and damage from the adhesives and usage.

It's been advised that placing a sonogram in a photocopier is not a good idea because the photocopier can ruin the original sonogram. Please keep this in mind if you want to preserve the original sonograms, and enjoy looking at your sonogram pictures. Your children will enjoy them in the years to come as well, and marvel at how tiny they once really were!