This is the present I gave my mom and dad for Christmas. We visited them at their wonderful home on Lake Ontario this past summer. I spent about 15 minutes zipping around taking pictures of stuff around their house. You may remember I posted them on my blog (and got lots of nice comments, thank you very much!) in September. That was when my parents were away on a trip and wouldn't likely be reading my blog. Since them I've re-dated that post to hide it back in the archives. Anyhoo...
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I ordered some snaps from Shutterfly. Cropped them with my paper scissors and sewed them right onto my prefused foundations layered with batting. I sketched a little of a design and decided how many pages I would have. I did 6 pages -- that's 12 sides.
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Each side has batting. So it's pretty study and stands by itself. I think it would look nice sitting on a mantle or coffee table, but begs to be handled!
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Then the embellishing and stitching. Including rocks from just down the stairs in my parents' back yard.
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It came together really well. It was a delight to make.
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I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and that you gave and received many wonderful gifts!
10 comments:
Wow, that turned out to be rather spectacular. You'll have to tutorial us on "how to". I'd love to make one.
That is a fabulous gift and it does beg to be held and savored! You are forever clever!
Great idea for a treasured gift! I like the idea of sewing the photos on. So many personal touches.
Wow!! That's amazing Deborah. I think that calls for a tutorial-with-pics.
You can come and visit me and take pics and make one for me!! What a lovely keepsake, especially made by a loving daughter.
OK, I am not really anonymous! Somehow the mouse slipped and posted me as anonymous!!
Another WOW for you, Deborah. The accordian book turned out superfantastic. Did your Mom cry?
I may be late to the "You're Fabulous Party" but I so agree. I want to make one and I want to own one. What a super gift for the folks who have everything.
Deb, BRAVO!!! what a wonderful gift, they msut be proud and you should be too!
Oh Deborah!
You'll have to post a tutorial on this.......GOSH, yet another project I want to try!!!
The new year hasn't even started and already I have about 20 million things I want to attempt!
GREAT JOB and I'm sure your parents LOVED it!!!
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