December 25, 2009

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}

7 comments:

  1. ahh this is too good. lucky lucky parents.

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  2. thanks :) i am making another one. i will post progress of it soon!

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  3. What an incredible project. I adore it!

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  4. P.S. I've just spent some time on your website. It's really very beautiful. I was wondering if you could tell me how you made it?

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  5. Beautiful idea.. Thanks for sharing..
    Will surely try this out :)

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  6. what an amazing gift. so beautiful. and i just love the "through the looking glass" headline above your photo "nest". fab.

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  7. Thanks everyone!

    I was really upset to cut apart this book, I must admit. However, the pages I removed were recycled as lining for an old suitcase I purchased. So it made me feel much better about "destroying" a perfectly amazing lewis carrol book.

    Crystal - thank you for the compliment on my website. A friend actually designed it for me. I can give you his info if you are interested?

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