Let’s face it: the days can be looong when you’re raising little ones. Even so, the sweet elderly lady at the grocery store who wistfully tells you They grow up too fast might be on to something.

Chart their progress with this home-grown growth chart from Austin designer Natalie Davis. More portable than a door frame and prettier than a page in the baby book, it’s handmade from jute and ribbon and comes complete with printed tags and oversized safety pins in a wooden keepsake box – the perfect place to store it when the time comes to put it away.

Which really will be here before you know it.