


“Buttons are delightful doodads,”
Says a fishwife who reviews shads.
“They will last through any new fads,”
States a pair of kangaroo lads
To their neighbor, Marilou Gladds.
Adds famed button expert Clay Kee:
“If you snub them when you wakey,
Then you’re making a mistakey,
Coming to eat breakfast nakey!”

There are two sides to a zipper,
Each side full of little teeth –
As you pull the slider upward,
They’re connecting underneath!
These small teeth are not for chewing
(That your own teeth do with ease) –
These teeth keep you warm and toasty,
Even in a frosty breeze!

Let’s unwrap
The word “snap”:
It can be a beatnik clap,
Or a fish biting a scrap,
Or some sudden colder weather that requires a shoulder wrap,
Or a cookie made of ginger that can break in a mishap,
Or an angry little yap,
A quick photo of a chap,
Or a football hiked behind from beneath the center’s lap
Or a task so that is so easy it’s like taking a short nap!

Old MacDonald had a farm (E-I-E-I-O!)
And on his farm he worked quite hard (E-I-E-I-O!)
He herded his sheep, and he milked his cows,
Tended chickens, walked his dog,
Every night went for a jog!
Old MacDonald one fine day (E-I-E-I-O!)
Didn’t buckle his overalls all the way (E-I-E-I-O!)
How his animals laughed when his pants fell down
Cows said MOO-ha! Pigs said OINK-ha!
And his doggie barked a WOOF-WOOF-ha-ha!

They sent a new dress to the Duchess of Veldt,
A dress that was loose and too baggy, she felt.
To make it fit better and make her seem svelte,
The shrewd Duchess cinched up her waist with a belt!

A man and his dog were out walking one day
Through a field of dry grass that looked kind of like hay.
Then later he petted his doggie’s soft fur
Where a grass seed was stuck, a seed known as a burr.
He looked at the seed – it was covered in hooks
That held tight to the dog hair’s looped crannies and nooks.
Inspired, he made hook and loop strips to use
As buckles (called Velcro) for everyone’s shoes.

The silky curls and swirls in Lara’s hair
Are golden, hazel, auburn – scarcely brown –
When loose, they gleam in ribbons in midair,
Twisting themselves into a copper crown
Of knots and tangles that a comb despair;
It’s better in the wind to clip them down.
129 comments:
hi! my name is cristina
your book is amazing
i like it so much
its beatiful
i like the skirt and the shoes
congartulations
kisse from chile
This is gorgeous - Lara is lucky to have such a laborious mom!
This is one of the most beautiful projects I've come across.. I am really amazed and inspired by your handicraft. Your blog has been such a pleasure to read and really brightened by day!
My Goodness - what a response and deservedly so! The book came out so wonderfully, the poems explain and illustrate the pictures (or is it the other way around?)with wit and humor so wonderfully that I already re-read everything 4 times. Looking forward to more re-reading!!! and thank you again for a personalized entry :)
Came across photos of this project in flickr and was so impressed I clicked over to your blog. What a lovely, beautifully done book!
Wow your book is so thoughtful and amazing! Nice work - love your blog too!
That book is absolutely brilliant! So inspirational - thank you! Your daughter has a lovely name, by they way ;-)
I don't want to even think about how long that took! But the results are incredible so kudos!!
Please contact me! I think I can hire you to build one for a friend!
- John
Saw your creations on the refashion website, and really loved the concept book! I'll get going on making one for my nieces' son who will be 2 in May, so I've got some time yet. Would I be allowed to borrow some of your poems?
X Thanks
My goodness...I am in awe. Complete and total amazement! This is not only the best idea I have seen in ages (I LOVE how you can display some of your favorite outgrown but treasured clothing from your little ones) but is also done so beautifully! The poems are amazing as well and so creative! I cannot believe how amazing this is! Wonderful job! I am always trying to find a way to "use" my DD's outgrown baby clothes and this takes first place! Great job!
AMAZING! I'm going to learn how to sew!
-Ayo
Wow, what a beautiful book and such creative poems too! I love it!
This is the cutest activity book I've seen! I hope you don't mind, but I added a couple pics of it and a link to your blog on my blog! I just had to share! What an adorable idea!
WOW! How creative. SUPER! FANTASTIC job! great work!
Hi Anna, I'm writing an article about your wonderful book to be included on http://www.clothdiapernews.com I'd like permission to use your pictures in the article. Please contact me at kristy@weewilliewinks.com to approve. Thank you!!
This book is awesome and just what I've been looking for for my son (in a boy version of course). Can I commission you to make one for me? Please email me...
stefanieva@yahoo.com
I would love one! do you sell them?
Brilliant! You're gonna get a lot of comments from me today... haha! love your creativity. How did you get the poems on the fabric?
Hi there! Thank you so much for posting your intelligent poetry and lovely book up here!! I was looking around for so long regarding soft books and stumbled onto your site. The braided beauty inspired me...check it out: http://angeldroppings.blogspot.com/2008/09/soft-fabric-activity-book.html
I'd love to know what you think. Thanks again for the inspiration! :) ~Lisa
Wow ! Wonderful! Anch'io nel mio blog sto preparando per un fururo Candy un art-journal. E anche la mia bambina si chiama Lara! Ciao dall'Italia, elena
I work with Autistic children and would love to have one of these, do you sell these or could you send me the directions.
Thanks,
armybrat0368@yahoo.com
Laurel
I linked to you today. Absolutely inspiring!
Thislittleproject.blogspot.com
Jedda
The most beautiful book I ever saw!
I love, love, love it!
Fabuleux!!! bravo!!!
I have had the link to your lovely book on my comp for ages now... it's the first on my list. I was going to sew one with a friend using yours as a guide. We still haven't gotten around to it...I have everything I need including a new baby so I should just stop and do it hehe It will never amount to the beauty of yours but it will be cherished.
Thanks you for inspiring my heart.
Oh, my! I am speechless. This has to be the most fabulous momma made thing I have ever seen!
amazing. awesome. i'm featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com
WOW!! I'm having to scrape my jaw up off of the floor. This is fabulous!! I posted a link to your project on Craft Gossip Sewing:
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/lookie-what-she-made-close-your-clothes-busy-book/2009/08/15/
--Anne
I managed to see loads of good sewing posts while browsing for this one. I love it! I wonder if I'll ever make the time to make one for someone. It's too late for my own kids, but it's so cute.
Are you going to rewrite any of the poems and make one for Jakey?
such a great idea for little ones to learn how to "fasten" themselves! I love it, great work!
Absolutely brilliant :)
I want one!!
This is amazing! The poems are really clever. I especially liked the "snap" one, I think, but I'm really impressed that they're all different styles!
wow, i love it! i took a look around your blog and it looks like we are from the same area. you do amazing things!!
I found this via somedaycrafts.blogspot.com and wow what a great idea! I'm just about to start making a quiet book for my kids and now I have inspiration for a second one (and boy does my 3rd old need help in this dept.)!
This is especially great because it's using stuff that's already got "functions" so it's easier to make and very eco-friendly/thrifty. Love it!
This is amazing!! I found you via Someday Crafts. Thanks for sharing this fabulous idea! I'm adding it to my list of projects. :)
Oh My Giddy Aunt! You are officially the bees knees!
This Is AMAZING!! I've been wanting to make one like this, I've linked it from my blog. What a great piece!
I'm speachless! Can you write a tutorial? I've never seen the shoe one in a book before. My little boy would love this.
Hey, I did my own version! Thanks so much for your idea! http://ronandjana.blogspot.com/2009/10/close-your-clothes-quiet-book.html
it's amazing!
that's great,ı couldn't find a word realy.ı gonna try to do make similar.ı hope ı can do.
xoxox
this is really great! i wonder if i could make one, but i am not so qualified to do this. ;) this is not only a gift, it is also a piece of art. congrats!!!
It's amazing ! I think Lara is very lucky girl... I try to make to do this book, but I'm not sure it will be like yours... Maybe, I can use different objects..
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Lucy
http://toddlergirls.net
This is awesome, and I do not use that word lightly. As to being 'laborious' I know what you mean! I am the same :(
First visit to your blog; looking around :)
Oh what a cool stuffs, so cool those ideas, I will make it for my child, are very cute for their rooms!
Thak you very much for the ideas!
This was definitely worth the effort you spent in making it - its gorgeous! Its also timeless as I have come across this years on and am going to make one for my daughter so thanks.
Great project.
WOW! This is the cutest little soft book ever!
Your book is absolutely amazing!!! I LOVE it!! well well done :-)
great job! just fabulous! I've got to make one for my grandbabies.
I love this so much, I PINNED it! Great job :)
why yes this does look laborious, but well worth it! beautiful project! I need to make a quiet book for sure since my son seems to be giving up naps on the weekends!
This is brilliant! I made quiet books for my kids when they were little and they loved them. I will have to tuck away this idea for when I have grandchildren! (many years still!)
This is an amazing idea!! I love it! What a fun idea for gifts for little ones!
Just too fun for words! Amazing project! Thanks for sharing!
How clever! Thanks for sharing.
This is truely a "Labor of Love" ! It's just beautiful ... thank you for sharing
Wow, what a cute way to make a memory book out of your child's old clothes in such a clever way. Love it.
wow this is gorgeus,i love it, thank for sharing
This is fantastic! I absolutely love it. Well done, it is a work of art.
What a wonderful idea! Would you happen to be planning a tutorial or pattern of sorts for this project?!
Such a great way to keep those favourite baby outfits that you can't bear to pass on...definitely making one of these for my girls...one day!
Just adorable! I love it and love the little clothes you have fashioned and your adorable poems too!
J'adore, c'est très beau et très pratique. Superbe. Bravo
I want have to know more and more, on your blog just interesting and useful information.
This is fabulous! Nice job on this!
Kelly on FB
Sew Lambitious LLC aka Lambitious Creations on FB
This book is just about the cutest thing I have ever seen! Absolutely LOOOVe it!.....Marilyn
Love this idea! So creative.
Hiya, I just found this book and it is soo awesome. I am making a quiet book for my best friend and thought I would make some clothes pages inspired by you. I have a question how did you attach the clothes to the fabric? From the pics I can't see any stitches along the edges and it looks just awesome. Thank you. gypsythieves@yahoo.com
I saw a link to this post quite a while ago. I finally started making one last night. The only problem...I think I've got too many pages for one book. :)
This is my favorite quiet book to date! I am starting one now. I was in tears going through all of my little girl's baby clothes. I am excited to actually be able to use them though! I am also wondering if you wouldn't mind sharing a few more tips on making my own. babymegs99@hotmail.com Thanks so much!!
Just wondering if you are selling these!?
I would love to purchase one.
Please email me at kerrimiller1990@hotmail.com if so!
Kerri
I too would love to purchase one if you are interested :) my email is kerpercie@gmail.com.
You are so talented!
I've just found this idea via the Petit Citron website. Absolutely Brilliant, what a fantastic idea and a wonderful way to make a keepsake while teaching your children useful skills. You are one very talented lady. THANK for sharing with gorgeous project idea.
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Wow! Amazing! This inspires me to want to make a book like this for my baby, but my sewing skills are awful! You did such an awesome job! So creative!
I love the fact that you used baby clothes instead of having to create everything yourself. Out of all the patterns I've looked at this seems the most re-creatable. Congrats on a job well done.
<3 it! I am making something similar for my son's 2nd birthday coming up in a couple months! Thanks for the wonderful idea!!
c'est magnifique! bravo!
Awesome quiet book! Thanks for sharing.
Super duper cute-alicious
Amazing ! I love it! Thinking about doing it, maybe I'll add a page to learn how to tie shoelaces but I am a bit afraid by the time it will take me to do this!
I like the idea of the cloth book with old baby clothes and shoes. My mom did the same thing with mine. She could not give them away because she made them herself. I still have the book with me and I am planning to do the same with my son’s clothes and give it to him when he is older. Perhaps this is a start of another family tradition.
WOW!!! What a great idea! I have to try it!
Just so extremely clever you are so talented. In awe love the poems so clever. Have you ever thought of selling the tutorial for the book and copyrighting your poems?
Lucky little Lara. Congratulations!
such a great idea for little ones to learn how to "fasten" themselves! I love it, great work!
Awesome!!! I would love to try and do something like that but I dont know where to even start! I would be interested in purchasing one?
This is just amazing! Thanks for sharing.
I pinned this one pinterest!!!!! And totally love it!
I am so going to make this! It is a "labor" of love that is for sure!
But will be loved for many years to come!
Lara must love it!
Thanks for sharing this lovely gift!
That is sooooo cute!!!!!
I just found this and it is such a darling idea and so long since you first posted it. I have two grandsons 17 months and 14 months and would like to start this now. Not sure of how you bond the book together. Would love some tips
This is most beautiful book I ever saw! Baby Clothes
What a beautiful book...very interesting....I would like to know how to sew the pages together to the book...Thank you....
What a great article about baby clothing.I really like your metaphors for friendship. Nice piece of writing indeed.Kids Clothes Ireland and Baby Clothes Ireland
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This is adorable!!! Wow. Super creative and cute. I'm going to start saving my son's clothes so I can make him one of these one day... thanks for sharing.
Saw this shared on Google+. What a fun keepsake and adorable book! Great job!
Thank You so much for sharing this cute and wonderful idea. I will share this on my latest blog.
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I'm gathering materials to make this wonderful little book. Could you share how did you sewed the book together?
this is so unique! i love the fact that u used out grown clothing for the pages. thanks for sharing
its so wonderful i love it.lara is really lucky
Very Lovely!!! It is really attracting me!!! I have planned to create a book like these...
A cute quiet busy book and poetry to boot! You are quite creative. I first saw your book on Facebook when a girlfriend shared it, then I followed the link to "Totally Green crafts" to you! I'm gonna pin if you don't mind!
Amazing thought!! Really like it the way you put baby clothes and shoes in it. Its looking so good. She is lucky to have this amazing gift.
nice post,best blog for me
Hi,I first saw your book on Facebook when a girlfriend shared it for Eyeones Kids
I really like all the collection you have shared. Mostly I like the design and color.
This is very useful information about baby dresses.I love it.
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realy nice:) fine idea and vary good photos:)
Thanks for the awesome idea Anna! I made a version of this which you can see here http://faithandfeltobsession.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/up-cycled-clothes-quiet-book.html
My daughter has lots of fun with it, so thanks again :)
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Great ideas the way of wearing kids clothes. Keep on update
Great book! I love it! I want to make one for my grandson, could you share measurements, pattern, some of your ideas, etc, I would appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Robyn
Lara would be a big girl now. What a wonderful project and what a way of depicting it. Cheers
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This book is so cool! How did you make the shoes? i would LOVE to make a book like this for my goddaughter.
If you could post a pattern for this i would be so grateful
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