Wanted: Your Ideas
Now that she can write,
London loves to express herself through words.
And you know I love that.
She has started keeping a journal that she writes in while she is in bed at night.
It is precious to me.
Filled with paragraphs of ideas and thoughts.
A page filled to bursting with a retelling of her day and how she thought it would turn out one way when it really turned out a different way.
A listing of all the places she would like to visit on her upcoming daddy-daughter date.
And lately, she has been leaving little notes for me all over the house.
And I love finding them.
They just appear places randomly.
I found this one on a sticky note inside my calendar.
Sometimes the notes are longer and involve gifts or small tokens as well.
This one was accompanied by a small, hand-sewn bag of candy hearts and a single dollar bill.
Of course I have been collecting these miniature treasures and storing them in a safe location.
But I’d like to do more than that.
So maybe you can help me.
Any ideas of a creative art project involving these little notes?
How could I store them, display them, make art out of them
in an adorable public display kind of way?
15 Comments
Andrea
Make a small scrapbook with each one on it’s own page. Decorate the page according to the colors she used. Include a message back to her to give it back to her on her 18th, or graduation, or birth of her first. Give her a momento of the love you have back for her, and the love she’ll show her baby too! That’s what I will do if my little girl gives me notes 🙂
joanna
a lot of work, but— you could scan each image, then print onto fabric and use them to make a quilt. , or a t-shirt series. i'm a fabric junkie, though.
LaceyKeigley
Emma – this is hilarious. I was wondering how I was commenting without knowing it.
emma
hmm. I guess I could have been a little funnier and actually posted something as you. Said something wierd. That would have been good. Maybe I'll do that another day. Oh, I forgot your password- boo!
LaceyKeigley
hmm. guess I am signed in as you since I helped on your blog (well sort of). I thought it would be very funny to not write anything. because then you would be very confused. maybe i should start spelling things wrong too. anyways, it's me- emma. i will logout this now.
LaceyKeigley
Make it into a bound book. Take pictures of them and then make a note of when or what it was for. And then start writing things back to her….maybe some in the actual book and then some written out that you take pictures of as well. And then you could include pictures in it and give it to her later. Plus you attach a pocket to the inside front cover and keep your absolute favorite few.
By the way…I think Jesse's ideas are all very good too. 🙂
Gretchen
Make a collage of them, or do a decapage (not sure of the spelling there) design on a piece of furniture (table top). Oh, I know I love the little love notes and pictures my little ones make!!! You could also take pictures of them that you took and put them in a little photo album.
Claygirlsings
Do you have a special place or room that you consider yours? I've been hearing @thenester (thenester.com/) talk about Gallery walls and they look really cute. Essentially, you frame them all in random but related frames and hang them all up in a cluster. You could include the non-food tokens and photos of the gifts.
Marie from Germany
love those notes!!
you could laminate each one – to be sure they won't get dirty or worn out (don't know if this is the right word, but you know what i mean…). and then you could put them together to a mobile and hang them up into a room with a high ceiling – in such a place you could frequently add more notes and make it bigger… named "Londons mobile of mommy love" 🙂
Jesse Wickstrum
Love it. 🙂
Meghan
Shadowbox was my first thought… then perhaps a scrapbook, but you wouldn’t be able to really include many tokens without it being bulky/bumpy…
I’m really no good at craftiness, I leave that to my mother and sister… so those two ideas are all I can gather…
Also, would now a really weird time to mention that I had a dream that my family came to spend the night with your family?? I mean, especially since we’ve never actually met? For the record, it went fabulously and my daughter and Berg decided to be best buddies.
Ben
What are those things called, where a ton of pictures form one large picture? A Photo Mosaic I think?
You could do that, make it form London.
That would take hundreds of these little notes, but it would be awesome.
quietgracesphotography
A shadow box, perhaps, with some of the gifts tucked in too 🙂
Jesse Wickstrum
The first idea that comes to mind is one based upon chronological sorting in a pattern reflecting cognitive development based upon syntax, content, and grammar. But I wouldn't assume you would see as much art in that as I do. A bit to technical.
On the other hand, I am sure each card has an average color or tone. These, if in large enough amounts can be used to create a collage.
Or, you can give them to me and I will create a database of every word used, it's frequency, and other factors. Plug them into the Ngram linguistic analysis program I downloaded from Google, track the language, and produce computer generated poetry from her words.
You could divide them into chronological chunks and put them into deep-well frames and be able to switch out which one from that group is showing through the glass.
You can scan their images into a computer and collect images of all the characters as letters and spell out things in video using her letters as they change shape over time through improved handwriting and tell the story of her note writing.
Just a few.
T.J.
Take pictures of each one and put them in one of those photo collage frames. The one frame unifies it under one theme, but each one would look special and worthy of its own space.
Hmmm… I just read what I wrote, and it sounds weird–like I'm pretending that I know more than I do (which may actually be true…). I just mean to say that I think a "Love, London" themed collage would be cool. =)