in miniture, book making

I remember being entranced by anything everyday made tiny. I still am really. I always wanted to be a Borrower. The nice thing about being a parent is you get to make things you would have loved as a kid. Who knows if your own kids will find them entertaining but it's hardly a chore for all to find out.



After my book making the other day I still have the bug. I have been experimenting more with covering the ends of these accordion style books with snippets of sturdy material. They are very tactile and satisfying.



These ones are hardly bigger than a postage stamp. I adore these most of all.



They are a full length of A2 and I folded the length over so the book has paper of double thickness. All you need do is then fold your long strip in half lengthwise, then half again and again and so on until you have a fat little tiny block of folded paper in your hand. Unfold gently and go over it again and refold carefully the proper ways so it's a nice accordion. Cut two pieces of card from a cereal box only very slightly bigger than the ends of your tiny book. I used a hot glue gun to fold and fix fabric over the ends and then fix the paper book in place.



The the next nice bit! I thought The Beauty might like to see lots of tiny pictures of things she knows, so I set to with the colouring pencils: knife fork and spoon, a banana, stars, rainbow, apple, chicken, boat, umbrella, rabbit, tree, house, kite..... oh! So many. I've made three so far, one gifted out to another two year old. If she's anything like The Beauty I think she might like it.



Just thinking they have such possibility, one for each season? If you could be clever enough to think of enough pictures, or one for Christmas, a birthday, a holiday? Lots of scope. Felix likes them blank for his own drawing of course, but the girl likes me to draw in them and then either get me to name everything or listen whilst she does.



They are great fun to fold and unfold, over and over. No rips either! Good cartridge paper is essential I think, regular stuff wouldn't hold up so well.

Mummy they are tiiiiiinnnny!



A girl after my own heart I think :)