10 Days -
I
was so excited to start this birthday
countdown photoshoot for my twins' 2nd birthday. Last year exactly on their 1st birthday I
flew from India to Thailand and my family in Bangkok organized their birthday
party and made all the arrangements. I
did not do anything special for them for their birthday so I was kinda sorta
making up for it now I guess!?
For
the photo shoot backdrop I made a heart garland. I cut out heart shapes from the colorful
Crayola construction papers, used a needle and thread to string the hearts
together, and then glued all the threads to strips of paper to keep it
together. The heart shapes are almost 3.5" from topmost to bottom and almost 3.5" from leftmost side to rightmost (I traced and cut it out manually because I didn't seem to find an extra large heart punch for this size).
Variation: if you don’t want
to use a needle and thread, you can cut very thin (think 2mm) strips of regular
printer paper and glue the strips vertically together then glue the hearts onto
it while alternating the colors.
For
the text: It's their Tom & Jerry carrom board as a prop. Why I used this carrom board? Because it was lying down near their toys and I felt I could leave the border as is
Phew. 10 down, 9 to go!
