New Quiet Book

This is my first attempt at a quiet book for Mady. I had one when I was a kid that was a house that opened with a bed on one side and a closet full of clothes on the other side. There was of course a little doll made to look like me that I could dress in the clothes.

This...is nothing like that. I can't sew very well, and as a first attempt, I guess it isn't bad. Some of the pages actually had many incarnations as I am the most creative in the middle of the night and once I was able to stay up a bit later realized they just weren't what I wanted, so I made all new ones. (I'm a serious night owl, much more alert and creative the later it gets. No matter how tired I am all day I get my second wind around 9pm, but with a baby I can't stay up that late "sigh".) She's worth the sacrifice of course. :)

This one is all about colors and textures. The next one will have activities like zipping, snapping, buttoning, etc.

These are not attached together yet, I've decided to use binder rings, I just need to get some.

This was the first page I did. I thought of changing it as it has no real picture, but there are so many different fabrics and textures I decided to leave it just for that. 

We are not Chicago Bears fans, but he is orange and I wanted more orange stuff. 

Did you make yarn dolls when you were young? We did all the time, that is what is on the blue page. 

Hard to see it, but there is a sheep on the white page above the soccer balls. (My husband was a soccer player and wants Mady to play that rather than do something like cheerlead. I'm just planting the seed in her mind.) 

I used a cookie cutter to get the shape of the deer. I had the least amount of brown stuff, but this was a late night creation, so more creative than midday stuff with limited tools.