Spring!

Spring has finally 'sprung' at my house!

The daffodils and ornamental plum trees are blooming, and the sun has finally put in an appearance!

Yesterday I spent the day playing in the dirt and getting my little garden plots cleaned up.

Pulling the weeds from the daisy bed is the worst, but I tackled that for a bit too. ;-)

The rains are due back tonight, so I really should go out and finish that weeding, but then who would keep the laundry going? ;-)

I have a new spring bag too. The Kim Unisex Messenger bag is part of Nancy Stroop's Designz Collection.

Since this bag is part of a collection, it won't be sold as a single pattern for quite sometime. But her prices are really reasonable, and if you join the collection, it is only $30 for 6 patterns. Well, actually it would be less that that because Nancy is in Australia and the dollar is pretty strong over there. ;-)  

Anyway, one of the things I really like about Nancy's patterns is that they are geared for beginners, but you can really 'fancy' them up to suit your needs.  Since I have been loving playing with my embroidery machine lately, I went that route...

I added the piping and the embroidery.  The embroidery design was a free design from Embroidery Library for the month of March.

I also added a big pocket to the back with more embroidery. :-)

I have a feeling when my DD sees this bag it is going to vanish. LOL

The lining has a lot of pockets and you have options on how you want to divide them up~ I always make a smaller one for pens because I really hate digging in my bags for a pen. ;-)

Here it is all together. There is also a clip for your keys inside. I placed mine at the top, so my keys could hang right inside a pocket, Nancy puts hers at the side.  

Next up I am cleaning up my cutting table and then working on a couple Easter gifties for the DGkiddoes. :-)

Until next time~

Happy Spring!!