Mar's pretty gifts -- DiY

 My best friend Maria turned twenty-two last friday! We always tend to go a little overboard on buying one another gifts for birthdays & christmas, but this year I wanted to make some special things for her. I was inspired by these notebooks, & decided to make some of my own! Here's what I did:

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// Supplies needed:
+ notebooks (these are piccadilly brand, & came in a pack of 3 at Barnes&Noble bookstore)
+ polaroids (i took these all at different times over the past two months in my backyard)
+ tape ( i used masking tape as well as pretty leaf printed tape i found at Target)
+ scrapbook pages ( i bought two books of varied patterns of printed paper in the scrapbook section of A.C. Moore)
+ scissors!

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The process was really easy after having all of the materials! I knew which polaroids I wanted to pair with which notebook colour, and just went with the flow. There were so many pretty patterns & different colours to pair & overlap. Too much fun, i could make these kind of journals forever :)

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I [ofcourse] found so many other pretty things I wanted to gift. I almost always am painting something for someone, and this gift was no different. I based it off of a photo i took, and a quote from Jean Rhy's novel Good Morning, Midnight -- a book Mar lent me ages ago. [ ps its a really lovely book.] I found the quote so inspiring, and i knew Mar needed some inspiration, and ofcourse i painted the background yellow, our favourite colour, duh.

 "Do not delude yourselves, nothing is easy, but there is hope."

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my other fun little gifts for my favourite person :)

- xx S