The Sewing Mom

I wrote a post the other day about a quilted bag that my sister had made. I posted a picture of it and my sister informed me that I posted a picture of the back of the back only, so, I am now posting a picture of the front of the bag.

This bag has a zipper in the front, a pocket on the back and an over the shoulder strap making it a great bag for traveling. These are fairly simple to make and it’s the easiest zipper installation I’ve ever done.

My daughter’s school canceled outdoor recess today because it was too cold, it was in the 40’s! WHAT? That’s right, people in North Texas think it’s the arctic when it dips below 55!

We moved here in April of last year from Northern Illinois and 40 is almost balmy to us. The school district my daughter was in before only canceled outdoor recess if the windchill or actual temperature was 10 degrees or below. Now that’s cold! This topic of differences brought my daughter to tell me some of the things she misses about where we lived before. Besides missing her friends, she misses the really tall trees, especially the one with her tree swing in it. She also misses the big fire pit we had in our back yard and having friends over to make smores, roasting the marshmallows over the fire.

I began telling her about our future plans for our backyard here in our new house. We have an in ground pool with some very pretty landscaping around it, but I’d like to add to it. I’d like to add an outdoor fireplace with a chimney and extend our patio cover out further for more shade. I’d also like to have a built in grill area. The way our patio is set up now is nice, I’d like to look at plans for Glass Conservatories to make it usable year around. So much of this could be done without changing the layout of the existing landscaping which would keep the costs down.

I informed my daughter that maybe, by the time she is ready to graduate from high school (6 more years) we’d have it all done and she could have her graduation party in the back yard! She just rolled her eyes….