Monster Book

My sister (at my leading) made a Monster Book inspired by this one from Anthropologie. It's a pretty big book. All of the monsters are designed by her, embroidered and embellished by hand. It is made of all cloth and embellishments and took several months to make - working on and off in the evenings. I LOVE it. And so do my kids. I wrote the stories and came up with the names of each monster, which was so much fun because I get to read it to them and hear them say the names.

So far since the kids received this gift at Christmas, Noah has drawn each monster by memory once and each monster with the book in front of him twice. He LOVES the book. And they talk about it a lot.

Thanks Hil! You rock! And did I mention, the original book on Anthropologie costs over $1000! Ours is worth more :) Because the final monster in the book, "Harriet Googley Eyes" aka. the Hairy Eyeball Monster made the book for us - Aunt Hilly is the final monster...so fitting.

She may start making more on a smaller scale...she really enjoyed it.