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For my banner, a lovely photo my husband took while we were in Jamaica.

miss K's owl backpack

I get really tired of carrying so many bags around, so I decided to make little miss K here own little backpack to carry her sippy cup and some entertainment when we are out and about.  She loves carrying her own little bag.  Mostly, she loves reaching in and pulling out whatever she finds in there.  Her very own bag of surprises.

I made it out of a pair of thrifted brown pants and of scraps of felt I had laying around.

first blog!

I started crafting as a child not because I really wanted to, but because I had to. My family didn't have money to spend on frivolous trends, and I grew up with a grandmother who was a seamstress from the original era of DIYers. Every time I saw something I wanted, she would ALWAYS look it over thoroughly and then say, "I can make this cheaper and better." And she did. Unfortunately, as a junior higher wanting to "fit in", I didn't really appreciate this. But now that I am an adult, I find myself doing the very same thing. I am thankful that I grew up without everything I thought I wanted to suppress my creativity.