Naiari's First Year

Continuing the series of grandchildren books I am making for my darling husband, this is the first year of photos of his first granddaughter.
In this age of cloud storage, few photos are actually printed, or looked at more than once.  Leafing through these two books brings back so many joyous memories - they grow so quickly and you forget so much.  It is a real tonic.
​With many thanks to my teacher, mentor and friend Jacqueline Liekens, who leant more than a helping hand.

The box in pale pink/mauve buffalo hide, with a white and yellow leather mosaic. The name is also done in mosaic, using the same colour leather for the letters of the name.

The box opened, with the mosaic continuing inside

Different view of the empty box

And this is how the book looks inside its box when you open it

The box opened, without the book

The front cover of the book, with the same decorative motif (the leather is the same colour of the box, but for some reason it has photographed differently.)

The back cover, in plain leather

The delicate pink and white headband

A close up of the fore edge of the book, showing off the difficult edge to edge technique

The book cover opened to reveal the guard in the palest pink leather and the fly leaf in hand painted silk

Naiari had the longest eyelashes!

Soft cover

Title page

Photos by Nikolaus Van Der Pas

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