My Mom came to visit us last week. We had a really nice visit, and Harper loved spending time with her Grandma. My Mom is an excellent seamstress, so on the last day of the visit, I dug out the sewing machine from the basement so she could create a journal cover for me. I have to put a disclaimer here that I made Mom sew a lot more randomly than she usually would! Let's just say that I made her sew as crazy as I would have sewn it. All over the place.
Anyway... the first plan was to make two journal covers, but then I decided we could make my DREAM-MEGA-SUPER-DUPER-RIDICULOUSLY-THICK journal! Mom sewed the two covers into one, and voila! The Mega Journal was born. I painted the pages yesterday so that every other page would have some starter color, and I sewed in the signatures last night. I'm in love and couldn't wait to start journaling in it today. Thanks again, Mom!
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| The cover (without pages sewn in yet) |
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| Painting pages |
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| Had to start with an octopus on the first page, of course |
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| The side view with the signatures sewn in... so fat and yummy! |
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| Second page spread already started... |
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| And even a third one! This one will be "two heads are better than one", I think. |
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| Harper kept busy this week too. |
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| Clowning around... |
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| And Harper and Grandma even made an adorable gnome garden complete with swing and gnome home. |
love all the grandma love! terrific projects shel!
ReplyDeleteI am in love with you journal, send your mum over to my house
ReplyDeleteBeautiful new journal! I love starting in a new journal. The gnome garden is too cute!
ReplyDeleteWhat a rocking cool journal! You´ll be the envy of every one at late-nite-arting from now on ;-) Seriously. It looks awesome, and I can totally see why you´re in love with it! Love that you put some colors on the pages first, so the pages aren´t white. Such a smart way to avoid the fear of the big white!
ReplyDeleteI love your mega journal!!! The seahorses are adorable!
ReplyDeleteHoly cow.....MEGA indeed! What does that thing weigh? :) Looks awesome!
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i'm totally jealous of that journal! from the sewn cover to all the bright painted pages you've started!
ReplyDeleteand the gnome garden is darn cute...gnomes gotta have a swing!