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What is a Velveteen Rabbit portrait?

Everybody has one or two (or seventeen or thirty-six) treasures stashed away somewhere  -- too precious to throw away but not quite ready for prime time. I can take your memento and photograph it -- turning it into a cool, modern print you can see and love on your wall, instead of abandoning it to the dust bunnies. (Okay, no more allusions to rabbits/ bunnies/ hares, promise.) See below for suggestions.

You might want a portrait like this to...

celebrate ---
·  Graduation
·  Retirement
·  Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah
·  Confirmation or First Holy Communion 
remember ---
·  Moments in childhood
·  Loved places
·  A person important to you
·  A significant accomplishment

These are called "Velveteen Rabbit portraits" because...


There is a child's book called The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real. It tells of how when objects are well loved and worn, they become "real." 

Maybe something like...

·  A toy, a sports item, a special lovey

·  Something symbolic about a person's work or achievement

·  An object that represents a rite of passage

·  Something symbolic about a person you love

·  An object that reminds you of a goal, passion, or purpose


Here are some examples...

·  The shoes your kid wore as a toddler. You keep thinking you should toss them, but every time you try, you tuck them back in the box.

·  How about those shoes plus the shoes they're wearing now? Yep, that works. Makes me tear up a bit. Drats.

·  The broach your Great-Aunt Helen always wore on her coat

·  The very first trophy you won in tennis

·  A large and unlovely lamp that sat in the corner of your grandfather's study

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