A Mixed Bag

This week has been depressingly dreary.

Which means I got a lot of projects mostly done, made a lot of soup, and had more than a few bad hair days.

But I didn’t let that get me down, two days in a row I had the breakfast dishes done by 8am.  I just had to throw that in, I’m pretty proud of that accomplishment.

I decided to make myself another bag.  Well, I pretty much needed another bag because my other one was pretty thread bare and I was worried that at any moment the handles would break spilling the precious contents inside – diapers, wipes, a pair of Spencer’s pants, pennies, old receipts, gold fish cracker crumbs, hand sanitizer.

I used one of the buttons from my great-grandma’s button jar.

The pattern is Simplicity 2685, Elaine Heigl Designs.

It’s lined and interfaced and has a hidden pocket inside.  I didn’t even have to call my mom for help, although I did have one of my friends over who has a degree in clothing construction or something or other….

This is a picture of Spencer sitting on the mud room steps {I’m the only one around here who calls it the mud room despite my best efforts at trying to train the others, they’re still confused when I say ‘mudroom’.} He thought I was doing laundry and was waiting for me patiently while eating a sugar cookie.

Caught.

Hope you have a nice, sunny weekend.

Katie