christmas for alicia

while my blog may have sat silent for the past month, i've been pretty busy getting things made for Christmas. for my niece alicia it was a felt photo album. she loves looking at books, and she loves looking at the family pictures hanging in our kitchen. so now she has her own photo album filled with family photos. yay for family photos!

the pages are made of felt, and there's a sheet of vinyl protecting the photos from possible baby slobber. i left the inside edge of each photo-holder open so they can swap out pictures with something more recent if they want. it holds photos that are approximately 4"x6" ... i had to trim a little off the 4" side to get them to fit. the front holds a 5h" square photo, also left open on one side for updating the family picture.

of course, i used a box that was bigger than i needed to wrap it up. so i filled in the extra space with small strips of leftover felt ... and alicia had a lot more fun playing with the little strips than looking at the album. but that's okay. now that the packing material's been thrown away, she'll just have to enjoy the album instead. :)

larger images at craftster.