An account of the creation of the world, and also of Adam and Eve

Here are Adam and Eve, our first parents.

Adam's face pieces

Specs on Adam:
He is zigzagged onto the backing completely. His face is velcro as are his various face pieces. His hair is from an old puppet I made for 7th grade English class. His coat is from a 'leather' shoe I wore at my sister's wedding. His robe is from some of my Dad's pants. He doesn't wear them anymore. His hands and feet are the lining of a tank top that wore out. His eyes are the shortened hem of my husband's gi. Not sure where the red mouth came from. The Princess likes to make him a Picasso face.

Specs on Eve:
Eve's skin is the same tank top lining. Her hair is an old t-shirt I bought for my mission. Her arms are stiffened with pop-sickle sticks, so they can be inserted into the sleeves of the dress. Her 'legs' are also free to fit in the bottom of the dress. The buckle on the dress shown above is from the Mister's watch band. She can be dressed and her hair braided. Or tied in knots or crocheted. That might be a little advanced just yet, but it's something to work toward. So far Eve's dresses are from a pink jacket that never fit right, but I planned to remodel one day. I guess that day is now, just a different remodel that I anticipated. The green dress (seen in the previous post) is mimicking a bride's maid dress for my college roommate. Since I was a bride's maid for several of my favorite people, and made two of the dresses, I had a little left over. On the line-up for other dresses are material from my Prom dress (aka mine and Mister's first date), material from my Homecoming dress (aka mine and Hubby's other major dance date), and some from the alterations on my wedding dress (aka Eternal Date). Nostalgia and toys all in one.

Wanna play?



The rest of the book:
First 
Second & Third
Fourth
Adam

Adam was first formed, then Eve.

I like this one. Here's your preview. But Eve is in the making. Her dresses are in the making too. More soon. Enjoy!

The rest of the book:
First 
Second & Third
Fourth
Adam

Adam Fell

Adam may have fallen a long way to be represented in such a state, but I'm excited about this one. It's not complete - he'll have hair and hands and feet, and other face options -  but it's face pieces that attach using velcro. More to come.


The rest of the book:
First 
Second & Third
Fourth

Snipped off her nose!

The constant repetition of 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' has died down somewhat, but we still play with bread and honey often and have now, mostly, completed the maid in the garden. No, it does not actually involve snipping, or 'sniffing' as is done in our house, but it involves hanging laundry on the line and matching colors. Next time, I would change the orientation a bit, by moving up the clothes pins to not cover so much sock underneath, and make it a bit bigger, but someday you'll see why it needed to be small. Maybe the Princess will have learned how to work clothespins by then. This is a great way to use up old socks. Very, very slowly.

Enjoy!

More about this project
Here

Page, the Fourth

And the world was formed and the dry land appeared. Granted, this is more of a representation of the land masses now, as opposed to Pangaea. That would make a less interesting puzzle. The pieces snap on. And the back was a shirt I wore in high school. Yep.

What I've learned:

• Stiff fabric is the the way to go. The book will have to endure the terror of a toddler, or several, so it needs to withstand the ages. 
• Stretchy fabric is no good for snaps or velcro. Or really for anything, unless it has a specific stretchy need.
• The backing on each page is a stiff fabric too.
• The shape of the page doesn't fit in her favorite backpack very well. 
• I'm not sure how to represent the firmament or light, so this may not actually be scriptural at all.  

Previous Creation pages
First 
Second & Third 

Other quiet book stuff
Bread and honey
Hanging out the clothes

Page, the Second and Third

The Creation quiet book continues. Here is pages 2-3. The stars live in the moon, and match to the colors on the opposite page. Each color is a different feel of fabric. They are velcro, so they stick really nicely to the pews at church. And sweaters or nylons.

I've wondered if it's worth it to make patterns for all of this, if anyone would like to copy. Any takers?