Daily Archives: March 24, 2012

christmas in march

Posted on March 24, 2012 | 1 Comment

So it feels more like May than March, and I’m posting pictures from Christmas. Confused yet?

Hey, look at this! I tore the place up two years ago looking for E’s drawing that inspired my Christmas card a few years back. Turns out I had scanned it before it was tossed (or put away for safekeeping in some undisclosed location) and it was in my computer all along!

…and the card that I made from it.

Would you think it weird if I already had ideas for this year’s card tossing about in my head?

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Tagged art story(ies), holidays, paper projects

and another one…

Posted on March 24, 2012 | 1 Comment

Here’s the other book we did for my nephew. E gets a kick out of how her writing looked when she was five. Doesn’t seem like that long ago. Favorites here? I like Oklahoma – I remember E coming up with that because she has a big map on her wall over her table.

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Tagged gifts, paper projects

sorting and purging

Posted on March 24, 2012 | 2 Comments

I might be a bit of a clearing house over the weekend on the blog. Doing a bit of tidying up and finding some long lost treasures.

These were pages of two books that E and I made for her cousins in 2008. Time sure does fly. I was newly pregnant with F at the time, and no one outside of M and I knew. Now she’s one big giant ball of toddler, and I want to make her some of her own books like this. The ideas are turning.

These were all paper collages, and the letter pages were done by E, while I made the covers for each book. We published them in paperback using Blurb. They were lots of fun. Here’s the first: