While Twinkle Toes bought paper mache letters and spray painted them for her shoot, I decided to go the easier, cheaper (and in my personal opinion) cuter route. I bought pre-painted white letters for our shoot so as to avoid spending the extra (messy) time spray painting, not to mention the extra money on spray paint. Since I was doing this project without my husband's help, I didn't think spray painting with a 2 year old sounded like much fun.
In all I paid $2.99 per letter, .80 cents for each picture to be developed and $11.99 for the frame from Bed Bath and Beyond (Originally $16.99 but I used a mailed $5.00 off coupon). Total for this gift was approximately $20.00 (give or take a little with tax).
Our photo shoot went well. Although, I must say I overestimated my daughter's attention span. By the end of our twenty minute film session I found myself (literally) begging and bribing her with cookies to pose for one more picture. I even did a second session later in the evening to get a better D shot.
Here's what we ended up with:
Cute? I think so! JB loved it and at some point we plan on doing a matching "MOM" session so that our home doesn't look like our daughter favors one parent over the other ;) This project could also be cute for a Grandparent's Day gift or with multiple children holding letters like this one...
Well, obviously these aren't children. These are the fabulous Baker boys who posed for a photo shoot for my aunt as a gift one year. But I love this too. Props to my beautiful cousin Maddy for these wonderful pictures and her excellent photography skills!
Hope some of you can use one of these ideas for a gift down the road!
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Very sweet.
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