busy house

Things are feeling a bit chaotic around here...

The phone has been ringing all morning, it's cold and rainy outside and Arlo and Keira are in super-hyped-up mode along with their three-year old friend who has come to play for the day.

Not even drawing, Arlo's favourite afternoon activity, will occupy them for five minutes.

While they were eating lunch I remembered about this project for a stained-glass window picture to make with pre-schoolers I saw a while ago on the wonderful Kiddley. How I love this site! So we'll try that this afternoon.

And here's a plain sort of book-bag I finished last night using the last of that chrysalis fabric I found... it's lined with coarse brown linen with a couple of pockets. Amelia and I resume our weekly craft stalls at the local market in a few weeks, eeeek! I'm not as , ahem, prepared as I hoped to be by now... not surprising really. Anyway I hope to sell a few simple bags along with my baby clothes... if I end up making them that is!

Comments

[Kelli]

Beee-yooo-tiful bag. Love it!

[Laura]

I love this bag! Thanks for doing the tutorial too. I've only dared make bags for the kids so far, probably it's that fear of not doing it well enough. I'm very glad you found my site/ and I got to read yours. I about fell off my chair (ok, bed is actually where I usually use my computer) when I saw you were in NZ. We applied for permanent residence late last year and hope to get approved in the next few months! If all goes well we will be there in the next 12 months. Maybe Welly, but it's more likily wherever a job comes along. Hope you can forgive yet another American who wants to become a Kiwi. Love your mini-moopies too. I'm thinking of doing another but at twice the size- she's tiny, or maybe I cut her a little too small? Still learning.