Teddy’s Photo Project: Weekly Baby Boy Pictures On Fabric: a house log

It all began with our daughter Clara’s weekly photo project when we had her in 2010. Then Teddy was born in April of 2014, and we had lively putting a slightly distinct spin on those weekly baby pictures to capture his growth. We did not want to fully reinvent the wheel (we truly liked how Clara’s turned out) so Teddy’s photo project has the same core elements: baby + fabric + photoshopped age.

The two tweaks that we made were: he wears clothes each week instead of white onesies (we enjoyed the personality that brought to Clara’s project when we began adding them in years 2 & 3), and we use a consistent object for scale (to better track how much he grows). We introduced a wooden plaque from JoAnn Fabrics, which makes for the ideal spot to photoshop his age. Instead of using 52 fabrics throughout the year, we cycled through around a dozen fairly plain ones – so we do not distract from the clothing too much (they are are all from JoAnn, except weeks 8 & 10 are from Spoonflower, week 1 is a quilt I sewed him, and weeks 11, 21, 31, and 41 are swaddle blankets).

*Note: the number font is called Sullivan and the “weeks” font is called Big Mouth.

You can check out Clara’s weekly photo project from 2010 here, and if you’d like to see Teddy’s nursery (and learn about all the paint colors and furnishings that are in it), simply click this button: