Graduation Bags

Hello!! This is a much happier, much more 'crafty' post. YAY!! Normally on a working vacation with Jason, he goes to a meeting in a town a few hours from here, Jackson (the little man) and I tag along in the car; kiss him goodbye in the mornings, and go our separate ways. This trip started that way (innocently enough), Jackson and I headed to the Portland Zoo...AMAZING. We learned all sorts of things, of course all Jackson remembers is that one gray wolf had a hurt ear, and we could not see the giraffes because they were getting a new home. But anyway... the little man feel asleep before I was even out of the parking lot thus it was on to the FABRIC STORE!! Fabric Depot to be exact where I knew I would find a great deal and a variety of fabric. Sure-nuf! I got some really incrediable stuff, a lot of Laura Gunn designs (I LOVE her style!!), and some clearance stuff that went right along. The little man slept in the stroller 'most' of the time. By the end he was his normal post nap cranky self. Luckily the cutting man seemed to go with the flow, and tried to work around my screaming/crying child who was demanding I buy the ENTIRE bolt of coral minky! (Really. I did NOT put him up to it.) We made it out under a $100 and we were off to eat dinner at Red Robin by ourselves (boo to post-meeting dinners :-p) and for mom to get her sewing machine up to the room and get to work. I got lots done the next 3 days, and by the time I was dropped off at the State Track hotel my bags were nearly finished. So all in all our work-vacation really was work on both ends, and I think Jackson got a good mix of mom and dad time.

Without further delay here are two of the three finished products (I forgot to get pictures of one of the best ones).