How To: Portrait Bookmarks by Soule Mama

While we await Amanda Blake Soule's next book (we loved her first one), Mothering magazine is sharing a project from her forthcoming book to whet our whistle. Amanda's captured family likenesses drawn by her children in colorful, embroidered portrait bookmarks.

This project is characteristic of Amanda's approach to parenting and crafting: involve your kids, create and preserve memories, use recycled materials when you can, keep it simple, make it beautiful. You can download the instructions for portrait bookmarks at Mothering.

Handmade Home: Simple Ways to Repurpose Old Materials into New Family Treasures will be published in August. In the meantime, you can visit Amanda at her website.

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Those are charming.

posted by JudiAU on March 30th 2009 at 4:34pm
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very nice.
PS: Why Mama a big potato?

posted by nanou on March 30th 2009 at 4:45pm
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I was wondering the same thing nanou! Everyone looks cute but mama is a big fat blob...is that how they really see us??? ;-)

posted by AndreaU on March 31st 2009 at 8:16am
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I'm hoping that the pictures are from different stages in the child's drawing development? And that the "mama" was a first attempt at drawing people? My experience with children shows that they start drawing Mom before anyone else.

This is a good project for Christmas gifts. Bookmarking.

http://embritadesign.blogspot.com

posted by EmmieB on March 31st 2009 at 11:31am
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