Altered Book

The butterfly counts not months but moments,

 and has time enough.

       ----Rabindranath Tagore

This is a little altered board book.

I wanted to share with you

how I altered a childrens board book

very inexpensively.

This book measures about 4 inches square,

but they do come in many sizes.

I bought the childrens board book at the thrift store for 19 cents.

I found quite a few board books for less than 39 cents a piece.

I then gessoed the pages,

added watered down acrylic paint and let it run where it may.

After the paint dried

 I added some butterfly stickers

that I also found thrifting.

To add to it I decided to put in some

butterfly quotes. 

I found a lot of them in my quote collection.

This is one of the inside pages.

I put the largest butterfly sticker I had on the front cover.

Lastly I sprayed matte acrylilc sealer on all the pages and the cover.

I could continue to embellish this little book,

but decided to call it finished.

This little book went to my daughter Amy,

 as part of her birthday present.

She's not a little girl anymore, 

in fact she will be getting married this year.

 but she still loves butterflies,

and so do I.