CRAFT

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Every Christmas I make my parents a gift. The past few years, and since I began taking photos and working with film, their gift ends up manifesting into some kind of photo menagerie. This year, to mix it up a little, I decided to create a different kind of photo book for them. I found an old copy of Alice and Wonderland at the antique store, hollowed a space out of the pages for the photos to fit in and made a sleeve and card on the inside cover to write a sweet daughterly message on. To ensure the book would stay closed properly, i sewed a piece of ribbon with a button enclosure around the exterior of the cover. The photos I gave them are actually the best part of this entire thing. Last Christmas our entire family flew out to Winter Park, Colorado and spent the entire week nestled in a cabin skiing down mountains and exploring deserted woodlands. I printed out the photos from this trip, also including the polaroid portraits I shot of everyone, and tied them all together with some butcher rope. Around the rope I strung a small tea-stained tag which I labeled in my best penmanship.

{If you have 10 hours to kill and want to try your hand at cutting, sewing, gluing, printing and tea staining, I would highly recommend this project for you}