Birthday Gift.

What to do you give someone as a birthday present when you have no money to spend? So first of all, I am going to be honest I am really terrible about giving people gifts for their birthdays. Even writing a card is something that is hard for me to do. So my New Year's Resolution was to be a better gift giver for people's birthdays.

My sister-in-law, Kelly, was the first birthday this year. I was racking my brain and finally realized that since I am already on a kick of bookbinding. Then why don't I create a book for her. (I personally love gifts that are handmade, I especially love cards from people when they write something meaningful inside...hmmpphh...my birthday is in two months...hint, hint)

As I was stating earlier, I wanted to create a book for Kelly that would be special and meaningful, I decided that maybe a little violin sheet music bound in a book could be a wonderful gift idea. So I ran with that idea and found some wonderful new ideas along the way. My favorite being thread sketching. I found this wonderful idea on another fellow bloggers, site. The concept behind it is you use a sewing machine to create a sketch, and the end result looks wonderful.

I ended up doing a small amount of thread sketching on the cover, binding the book violin sheet music and lining the inside with some of my own block print which I created. I loved the end result and just wanted to share with you.

Hope you like!