Back to School ...

Don't you wish sometimes you could just curl up in any cozy spot and fall asleep like that?  Tomorrow I go back to school with no snow days in the forecast so I need to get my brain in gear and figure out what I've got going tomorrow...

I spent yesterday working on my new school bag...  cutting, sewing, looking, changing, sewing again...

I'm at the point where I am putting together the lining...  The bag itself is coming out larger than I thought it would ( I am making it up as I go ) I have a couple of belts that match that I am going to make into the straps. They came with some capris I bought last summer and I never used them. I think they will look cool as the straps and they are very strong, which is good since I over load my school bag. I will have to sew them on by hand since they are too thick for me to sew over with the sewing machine. I used some old jeans for the sides and bottom panels. Never throw out a pair of jeans that you can cut up and sew into a project!

I so love this print! I don't want to cover any of the birds with pockets on the front so I will be doing some creative pocket placement...

                               Finally a pattern I am happy with! I'm feeling the yarn love again! :)

Hoping to finish it up tonight/tomorrow.  I will be crocheting as I watch the first episode of Season 4 of Downton Abbey tonight! I got my husband hooked last year... he never thought he would be interested but the characters pulled him in! His favorite show is The Walking Dead... (dead zombies are not my favorite) enough said.

  

It's dreary and rainy here this afternoon, it felt like a heat wave! The temperature got up to 36 degrees F! The snow finally melted off my driveway! It was so cold the past two days that even with the rock salt on the driveway nothing was melting!

This corner looks so bare without the Christmas tree...

Debating on lighting a fire in the fireplace...  finishing up some laundry,
deciding what to make for supper...  spent the afternoon cleaning.

 Quiet day... tomorrow will not be so quiet!

I will be back to running around and working with the kids. Hectic, but I actually miss the chaos of the kids! Ha! Remind me I said that at 3:30 tomorrow when I'm sitting in my faculty meeting wiped out and thinking to myself that I can't wait to get home and collapse!

Hope everyone had a great break! Until I can find the time to talk again...

                                                           Mrs.C  :)