Careful planning is important
May. 27th, 2022 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartSo, I've begun planning out the new quiet book for Elise's third granddaughter, Janka (which is Hungarian for Jeannie, BTW). It will be a tad more girlie than the twin ones I'd just finished yesterday, but not another doll house. The girlie aspect will be shown more in the colours than in the topics.
The front page will be based on this one, although I'm considering the use of sparkly pom-poms instead of the buttons, and the colours will be different:
Then there might be a match-the-colour activity page, similar to this one:
Or I might use this one instead, as it works with buttons instead with hook and loops, and the basic idea is to offer as many different activities as possible:
I'm also planning another castle puzzle page, perhaps with different colours and applications, because castles are good for little princesses and puzzles are good for the brain.
Then, to offer a counting activity, I might do something with dominoes - no clear idea yet what, but I have a great deal of black hard felt that would be excellent for this pattern.
A birthday cake with a zipper, in which attachable candles are kept would also be good - kids need to learn to use zippers without injuring their fingers, and besides, one can always add another candle as she gets older, right?
I'm thinking of making a fish bowl or deep sea page, for moving the decor stones under the net and using the two discarded jellyfish that are waiting for a purpose, but have no clear idea for the design just yet.
For Page #7 and the back cover I don't even have any ideas yet, but I hope some extensive research will bring the necessary inspiration. In the meantime I can already start on the pages that are planned out. The seaming will be pale pink in this case... very, very pale pink, almost white. I'm not making a Barbie book!
Other than that, we went to Lidl with Mum - for the first time since her fainting episode in early February. I must admit that I was very nervous, this being the longest trip ever since, but thank God everything went well. We then had crepes with home-made strawberry jam for lunch, which was very yummy.
But really, how is it Friday again?
The front page will be based on this one, although I'm considering the use of sparkly pom-poms instead of the buttons, and the colours will be different:
Then there might be a match-the-colour activity page, similar to this one:
Or I might use this one instead, as it works with buttons instead with hook and loops, and the basic idea is to offer as many different activities as possible:
I'm also planning another castle puzzle page, perhaps with different colours and applications, because castles are good for little princesses and puzzles are good for the brain.
Then, to offer a counting activity, I might do something with dominoes - no clear idea yet what, but I have a great deal of black hard felt that would be excellent for this pattern.
A birthday cake with a zipper, in which attachable candles are kept would also be good - kids need to learn to use zippers without injuring their fingers, and besides, one can always add another candle as she gets older, right?
I'm thinking of making a fish bowl or deep sea page, for moving the decor stones under the net and using the two discarded jellyfish that are waiting for a purpose, but have no clear idea for the design just yet.
For Page #7 and the back cover I don't even have any ideas yet, but I hope some extensive research will bring the necessary inspiration. In the meantime I can already start on the pages that are planned out. The seaming will be pale pink in this case... very, very pale pink, almost white. I'm not making a Barbie book!
Other than that, we went to Lidl with Mum - for the first time since her fainting episode in early February. I must admit that I was very nervous, this being the longest trip ever since, but thank God everything went well. We then had crepes with home-made strawberry jam for lunch, which was very yummy.
But really, how is it Friday again?
