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	Colombia Families Traveling and Traveling Soon!
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	Kazakhstan Three Families Travel to Bond with Their Child
	Russia Russia Program at Full Speed, Bustling with Travel
	Vietnam Two Boys Find Their Forever Homes

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Perhaps especially fun for our Vietnam families - this button bracelet could make a great Mother's Day present, with just a little planning and printing.

This project works great if you have several kids at home or can be equally fun if you have a lot of referral and update pictures of your little one while you wait for your travel to bring them home.

Adult help will be needed.

Materials:

Photographs or digital images to be printed
Scissors
Colored beading elastic, available in the beading section of crafts stores
Buttons with recessed thread holes
1 Coin, approximate size of the recessed button space
Glue stick
3-D fabric or glitter paint
Plaid's Mod Podge (optional)
Post-It Photo Paper (optional)

Choose your buttons. Selecting your buttons (behind selecting your photos) is the most important part of this craft. Finding large, recessed buttons that are cute and fun may be easier if you search larger craft stores. Choosing a button with a large recession will allow the photos to rest inside, unwrinkled.

Pick your pictures. Select snapshots with faces that will fit on your buttons. This task is made easier, too, if you have digital photos and can size the faces in your photo editor as you wish. Don't use your print referral photos!

Selections made, cut a piece of elastic about 2 inches longer than you'd like the finished bracelet to be. Sizing Mom's wrist may be a good idea.

Thread the buttons through the elastic from the back, hooking through the front and out through the back once more, until the bracelet is the desired size, leaving an extra inch of elastic on each end of the bracelet to tie.

Using a coin or round object as a template, trace circles around the photo faces and cut them out.

Glue the photos to the buttons and decorate the edges with 3-D paint or glitter paint if you'd like. (For even less photo wrinkling, consider printing your photos with Post-It Picture Paper, which will let you forego this gluing step.)

To make a bracelet that will last, through food disasters and slobber ? coat the completed buttons with Plaid's Mod Podge or similar product, which helps keep the photos in place and creates a durable and smooth finish.

Tie the ends of the bracelet together and snip off the extra elastic.

Tada - A Mother's Day gift no adopting or adoptive mother will ever forget!