...or treasured journal? Hi everyone :) I thought I would share with you one of my youngsters most treasured possessions at the moment. I was trying to craft one day and she was trying to join in but it was a CJ of someone else's I was working on so she couldn't really help. Out of frustration I yanked a cheap blank notebook off my shelves and gave her a biro thinking it would keep her quiet for 10 minutes. Nearly a year on and no-one is allowed to touch Ruby's book without her explicit say so. She is so proud of it, I've tried giving her more books to draw in, no, it has to be Ruby's Book!
Each time she uses it something else gets added to the cover. Nearly all the pages have something or other on but she doesn't mind, she works over the top. I find it so funny that something I am taking classes in - layering up and graffiti, comes so naturally to an almost 3 year old. How did we forget that freedom of expression?
Painting, stamping, drawing, gluing, sticking...
Some layering in progress...
I think I love her little book almost as much as she does. So if you're thinking of a way to keep your kids occupied this coming summer holidays. Forget all the gadgets, turn the tv off. Set them up in the garden with some paints and stickers and stampers and a blank notebook :) Who needs all that new fangled gadgetry anyway?
Thanks as always for reading - I hope you enjoyed a peek into Ruby's Book.
Carmen x
Carmen this is wonderful! What a lovely thing to look back on too. I dont think enough children are allowed to be creative at home.
I must admit to keeping everything my children created, we still have books and books of registers that dd made when she was in school.
Debbie x
Posted by: Debbie Roberts | July 08, 2010 at 07:19 AM
Wow this is mega Artistic.
Think her book is better than mine ...maybe I should get a bit messier ! deffo going to try :)
Posted by: jayne | July 08, 2010 at 08:17 AM
Oh to have a 3yr old again, this is fabulous. But take it for safe-keeping when she's a teenager, those moods might mean it disappears, my DD threw away lots of priceless stuff in her teen angst. :(
E
xx
Posted by: Eleanor | July 08, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Wow, that is beautiful. Tell Ruby I'd like some of her talent. What a fabulous thing to share.
Posted by: Lynne V. | July 08, 2010 at 11:16 AM
What a great book, I'm sure I've got some blank notebooks somewhere, I'll go and hunt one out for my daughter (aged 2 and a bit). Thanks for the inspiration!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 08, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Wow Carmen thats fab, a great idea & a very talented daughter - she's brilliant, my DD loves to stick & glue & paint & draw, I'm going to give her a book of her own now too. Isn't it lovely when the littlies & the grown-ups enjoy the same hobbies :)
Posted by: claireliz | July 08, 2010 at 08:16 PM