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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Christmas is Coming: Day 14

I think making things for my kids is one of the best parts of being a mom - especially for birthdays and Christmas. This year, though, I didn't come up with as many ideas as usual to make - maybe that's because there is no way I can mold plastic into legos or make tea party pancake flippers. However, I did come up with a few ideas, and this is one of them:

As baby number three, Blair really doesn't need more toys (or maybe I just don't want more noisy, cluttery, annoying baby toys) or even many clothes. The few things she does need got passes along to Grandmas looking for ideas, so I was left thinking "It's a good thing she's only one, because she is going to have NOTHING to open on Christmas morning." Then, I got addicted to Pinterest, and found millions of ideas for busy books, so I got motivated to make Blair one of her own.
Here are a few of the pages (made from felt):

A zipper pocket on one side, to hold the pieces of a rainbow on the other side:

Huge buttons with button-hole flaps on the left and a clock with moveable hands on the right:I made each page on an individual piece of felt, so I didn't have to worry about how the back looked. Then, I zig-zagged two pages back-to-back. I guess my sewing machine doesn't like felt, because at one point, in protest, pieces inside came out and I thought I had destroyed my machine. I stared at it for a while, tried to imagine what my Dad would do in this situation, and somehow managed to pop everything back into place. WHEW! What a relief.

Late last night I bound all the pages together by hand.

Merry Christmas Blair!

Merry Christmas Everyone Else!




























3 comments:

Jamie said...

Love it! One of these was on my list of things to make for Ellie for a long time...and it never made it to the top of that list =/ Well done!

Jessica said...

What a cute book! Blair, as well as Brynn, will love it. You sure do nice work, too!

~ Tandis ~ said...

Very cute! I'll be working on Jeta's on Saturday. Pinterest will make Blair and Jeta into smart little kids. Hehehe. I'm doing a bead page too and a button one. I have to add a "barn" to mine to encourage Jeta into her older sibling's favorite past time. Hers will hopefully get done by Christmas... otherwise it's her birthday. :)