It's a New Semester

January in Canada brings a lot of things

usually cold (not much knock on wood)

a little more sunlight

and a new semester for my high schooler

For the last two year she has been using a hand me down

bag from her sister, that was from Old Navy

that fabric was cool

but we washed it after Christmas

and the handle fell right apart and the bag is not far behind

You can see the tiniest of holes starting in the bag body

so Monday night we took that old bag

layed it out for a pattern

cut out the fabric

sewed it back together and this is what she has

She really likes asian themed fabric

we found these in our travels

and she loves them

I put this project off for 30 days, saying I didn't have a

pattern

but in the end it took me less than an hour with no clue what I was doing and wa la, oh and it is reversable

she is happy

You know it was one of those things like sewing on a

button, you put it off for so long and then when you

get around to sewing it on, you say to yourself, that wasn't so bad