a book ..... and the garden

In the present-shower there were four presents for every day.

One for each of the older children,

one for the mom and one for the baby.

Along with the soft dragon toy

went another homemade present :

a photo book

(yes , a bought one)

with a mandala for the new baby inside

I surrounded the baby with flowers of May that I choose from the garden.

For the hearts on the book cover I used "wonder under" (vliesofix)

and then machine stitched them on the background

here the finished book

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Although I went into the garden to pick some flowers for the drawing

I didn't go there very often because of the cold spring weather.

But since little Jaïr is born

the sun has come out

and we are enjoying a very warm spring at last.

.....

And the garden ...

kind of exploded with flowers !

Today, though it was in fact too hot to work outside in the sun,

I removed all of the forget-me-nots

so the smal pinkish white alliums can take over