{"id":2079,"date":"2012-04-15T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2012-04-15T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T03:22:19","slug":"collaborative-baby-shower-gift-an-abc-photo-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"collaborative baby shower gift: an abc photo book!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>today we threw a baby shower for some very dear friends.\u00c2\u00a0 it was a lovely party with a delicious brunch and no cheesy uncomfortable shower games, but my favorite project was a gift we created for the parents-to-be:\u00c2\u00a0 an alphabet book!\u00c2\u00a0 i was initially inspired by this post on the craftzine blog<\/a>, but then the more i tried to figure out the logistics and tried to envision all of these friends trying to sew together a felt page and get it mailed to me in two weeks, the less i believed it would work.\u00c2\u00a0 then, i remembered this other book idea i’d seen recently<\/a> and i realized i could combine the two ideas and make this all so much simpler.\u00c2\u00a0 i sent out an invitation to friends near and far, asking them to send me an photo representing one letter of the alphabet, preferably using a word that had special meaning for the parents.\u00c2\u00a0 once i got the photos back (and what a fantastic variety of styles and words i got!) i added text to the images and printed them out at 4×6″ and just tucked them all into a plastic photo album.\u00c2\u00a0 want a sneak peek at the inside?<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>i also included a page listing the names of the contributors beside the letter they’d done.\u00c2\u00a0 they loved it!<\/p>\n

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today we threw a baby shower for some very dear friends.\u00c2\u00a0 it was a lovely party with a delicious brunch and no cheesy uncomfortable shower games, but my favorite project was a gift we created for the parents-to-be:\u00c2\u00a0 an alphabet … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}