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It sounds kind of lame, but since we are going on vacation our little girl didn't get a big party or anything, because all our money is going towards the trip. Instead, we just grilled some burgers and had the neighbors and MikeKilo over. We didn't want to make a lot of fuss, but I still wanted to thank people for coming and for the lovely gifts they brought(even though they know they don't have too).  
Avatar: The Last Airbender is our squidlets latest obssesion, so we were going to have it playing during her "party" and I was looking in that direction for favors but, with no luck. Since the show is kind of old, there isn't alot of merchandise available. Trying to think outside the box, I found this site, that had all kinds of Airbender pages. That's when I got the idea to make an Airbender coloring book. I based mine off the book I found  here. (I love the book she came up with, but since I came up with this idea the day before, I think my end result was pretty awesome). Anyway, here is how I did it. 

1. I picked and printed off 11 pictures from the coloring site. 

2. I arranged them in the order that I wanted, and decided that I wanted my book to open upwards so that I could hide some writing. 

3. I then took my sewing machine and stitched the pages together. That's right I used my sewing machine and sewed them all together.

**Note: Like I said I printed off 11 pictures. I think that 12 would have been the limit for my machine. Also, using an older needle would be preferable since the paper is probably going to kind of dull it. I have an old one I keep around just for paper.**

4. After I stitched them all together, I picked out a sheet of paper to cover the tops with. I measured strips 2 inches wide(I wanted it to cover about an inch on each side) and 8.5 inches long and cut each of them out.

5. Grabbing my handy dandy glue stick I glued one side down then I folded the paper over and glued it to the other side. **Note: I made sure to glue the ends of the thread down inward and covered them.**

6. Lastly, I took my ruler and ran it along both sides of the glued paper just to make sure it was down well. 

Well, that's it. I was going to give each girl these stickers I picked up at the Dollar store, plus a little package of 8 crayons, but stickers might not be the greatest idea just yet, and time was an issue. They made great little favors, but the whole package would have been awesome. Eh, what can you do? Next time will be better.

Hope you like it and show off any books of your own!