More handbags

More handbags. My youngest sister asked for a black and white one. The floral one is for my Mom(Riley picked the fabric).

Crayon and Pencil Rolls

I Made These :)

I made 13: 9 crayon rolls, 3 color pencil rolls and 1 marking pen roll. This was my Christmas present 2011 project for all my nieces, nephews and kids(and one for a friend at work). The first one I made took a few hours to figure out. I had seen a photo of a crayon roll(if you google search for 'crayon roll' you'll find tons of images). I took what I saw and did what I usually do by altering the design a bit to make it mine. I wanted each crayons pocket to be a matching color to the crayon. Most of the images I saw were not like that. Most looked plain: super easy to make but looked so plain. I also thought of changing how to keep it rolled up. Most of the images I saw had two strings that tie in a bow...I made mine with a band of elastic...I thought that would make it more kid friendly. Towards the end I got very fast at making these. I'm actually not burned out on them. I wanted to keep making, but ran out of kids. Maybe I'll make some for my girl scouts... Since I've done this project...I've become so familiar that I can name all the colors in a box of crayons.

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Today, on lunch, I googled 'best historical fiction books' and found This website. I went to the Barnes and Nobles and bought a new book: To Kill a Mockingbird. I think most people read this in school... I never did. I had Mr. Jordan for English and so we didn't do alot of reading. We would start to read something and would never finish we would end up watching the movie. We actually did alot of movie watching in that class.
I did read when I was in school. I didn't read for fun and I didn't know how much I loved to read. I think I just didn't have the attention I was a more active kid.
About the list.. I almost bought a book called Outlander, but read the reviews and the negative reviews were negative for a reason while the positive reviews were positive in defense of the negative. I'll let you know how it goes. Because I buy a book doesn't mean I'll read it if I find something else to read first.
I like the list I found though. I've read alot of the books on the list(or have seen the movie).