One day it finally registered with me that Genevieve was carrying her school pencils in a ziploc bag, punctured by their points and ugly as those bags always are. I asked her if she wanted me to make her a pencil bag. Yes! And since she was playing with the baby, she gave me carte blanche to pick the fabrics, too. Fun! I suddenly had an inspiration and asked her if it would be helpful if the bag was on a big elastic that held it in place on her binder. Oh yes! Fortunately I had some frilly yellow elastic on hand - I thought I might see if I could make some sagging knee socks stay up. But in the meantime, Genevieve has a sweet little pencil bag that is convenient and much nicer to look at than a filmy, pockmarked plastic bag.
I realized that I haven't been blogging about my kitchen work. I believe it's mostly because Phoebe is urgently hungry at meals, so I feel pleased to just get food on the table and into her mouth and I don't have much time to photograph anything (I like to put pictures with my posts). I'm going to try to be more deliberate about that.
4 comments:
So pretty and so useful. Any girl would be pleased with that!
Much better than ziplock! And, how did the elastic work on the saggy knee socks. This is a problem I've been lamenting lately. Have you tried it yet?
That is a sweet little bag! My go-to birthday gift for little people is a package of colored pencils, drawing pad, and homemade "face" pencil ba (button eyes, etc) in fun fabrics. It's so cute and a nice little gift!
BLD, I haven't tried to help the knee socks yet. But they're driving me crazy!
Polly, what an excellent gift idea! Love that it works for either gender, too.
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