ABC Book

As planned, I have finally finished my ABC book (months and months long past due!), but it isn't just any ABC book, it is also a family picture pocket book. I painted the letters for each page and then made clear pockets to slide pictures into it of family members that start with that letter of the Alphabet. I also backed the pictures with old cereal boxes cardboard for extra support and then contact papered them, so if my little girl so chooses to pull the pictures out of the pockets and chew on them (because at her stage EVERYTHING goes to the mouth), they will hopefully still stay mostly in tack!

This book will be a fun and multi-tasking sort of book for my girl to be familiar with the alphabet and different words that relate to certain words along with being familiar with our family members, especially since we live far away from most of them. I hoping it will help her not be totally in the dark at how many mounds of family she has and how wonderful they all are. So with this little intro, now to show you the final works, drum roll. . . . .

 For the blocks on the front cover, I printed these pictures onto regular material with my regular old printer, in the same way I printed words onto my quilted storage boxes in THIS venture. Then I sewed the cloth onto the book. I also put some extra quilting batter and cardboard from old cereal boxes in the cover to give it some nice firmness and the likes.

 For the buttons I cut them from an old pair of jeans

 Along with this pocket. I put the pocket on the back to store the extra pictures that wouldn't fit in all the picture pockets at the same time (cuz let me tell you, there are TONS of pictures, because we got TONs of family! :)

 See how they fit in there so nicely :) I also sewed on some Velcro to close it nicely and keep pictures from falling out.

 Then I made the pages, Red, Yellow, and Blue (yep the lovely primary colors, so she can work on colors too! This is a very multi tasker book!) I painted the letters with a stencil I made in the same way I made the wording on my lovely hubby's Father's day tie in THIS venture. And the pockets I glued on with liquid stick (because I tried to sew them on, it was a pain, because my machine's foot kept getting caught on the plastic, ugh. So yeah for easy liquid stick!)

 For my family's own privacy I am only showing examples from just our smaller family and . . .

 letters that don't have family members names for them. I am not sure what kind of name you could get with an "X", but I really wouldn't be surprised that there are many names that start with an X, just not in my family, so we get to use the Xylophone! :)

 Then for "Y" I put a little mirror, for "YOU!" isn't that cleaver!?

 And last but not least, I had to show pictures of my little girl enjoying the book. . .

She LOVES books, so she better love this one, because I put a TON of time into it! (the ironic thing with this picture is she is actually crying, she was ready for a nap when I tried to get these pictures, and she just wasn't in the mood to "enjoy" her new book, but she better enjoy it sometime, or else. . . . I will be very sad :(

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to come join me again next week for another fun post! It is amazing how much more time I have on my hands now that I am not posting near as much, so I have been working on lots of goodies. Next weeks post will be on these lovely storage boxes I put together for my girl's toys, and they are a little different than the quilted boxes, so come by and see how they all turned out!

Until next time!. . . .