Olivia's Quiet Book

My friend Melanie is home schooling her son, who will start kindergarten this year, just like Abby. Melanie also has Olivia, who is 2. Melanie has been looking for things for Olivia to do while she and Mitchell are doing school. Melanie had seen my old Quiet Book (which Abby plays with) and wanted one for Olivia, so I made one for Olivia's 2nd birthday. All of the words are hand embroidered and I did most of that while watching "Law and Order" re-runs in the afternoon.*

I decided to photograph all the pages before I bound the book--I thought that would be easier. There's two pictures of some of the pages, so you can see the "activity"

Imagine that there's a drum roll, as I'm really proud of myself.

OLIVIA'S QUIET BOOK

I have all the pages sewn together** and am working on the cover now. I think that I'll have it done tonight, or at least by tomorrow. I'll post pictures of the cover when it's 100% complete.

I'm planning to offer this as a custom item at my Esty shop and then make one with fewer pages and without any personalization that will also be available. I think that my favorite thing about making these was getting to use all the scraps that I've been collecting.

Abby has invented a new game using the pieces from Cranium Carboo, the people from her doll house and a jump rope, so I need to go and see what that's all about. Perhaps Abby will get an Etsy store too.

*Not relevant, but something fun to know

**Which was a challenge and I really wish that I knew how to use a thimble.