the birthday pillow

our very creative girl has it sent in her mind, that she wanted to draw on fabric. so i got our fabric dye sticks out, which are very similar to oil pastels and we do like to work with them.
i suggested she draw first an outline with sharpie and then start colouring, which ended up working just fine. for the past few weeks, she learned about all kinds of animals in kindergarten, so no surprise that a couple of lions had to be drawn...


and then of course one piece of fabric wasn't going to do it, more drawing, working and creating has to go on. one is never enough for her, there has to be lots of what ever she starts to do.
together we ironed the two pieces, to make the design permanent. and then it was my turn to sew things into a pillow, that was naomi's decision after finishing the two panels. she picked some fabric and i sat down to sew.


the next act was wrapping the birthday pillow into and of course the use of sticky tape was loved by her. i have to say though, she is a very good gift wrapper...


and then we stuck it into a shipping envelope, chose a sticker from my sticker collection. i like the one she chose. and it was so sweet to hear her reasons why it was this particular one and not any other of the sticker book i recently ordered by yaelfran i have. "i love rain and my godfather will see that this is me"
it's now in the mail, and we hope it will arrive by tomorrow!
happy birthday "goetti p"