Teiku

Molly has been in school for a full week now.  It started out really well, but as the week as progressed she has become less enthusiastic about being dropped off in her class.  It will get easier...I keep telling myself. 

For the most part, I have been able to keep myself pretty busy while she is in school.  I finally got word today, that I should hear something about subbing in two weeks.  That feels like forever right now.  I am ready to get into a classroom.  

So, in the mean time, I am trying to finish all of the projects that I have had on my to-do list.  Vacation pictures are high on that list.  So here is the first blog post of probably a couple.  

While we were in Washington at the beginning of the month, I shot majority of my pictures with my phone, but Teiku was too beautiful to leave to my phone.  These are the only pictures from my canon.  I will post the others next week.  I am so happy to have pictures of Molly and me from the beach, thanks Taylor!  I should aslo thank her for the plane ticket since it was my graduation gift!

I adore this chubby tummy.

I really want to hang one of these pictures in Molly's room, but I am having a major problem deciding which one...I love them all!

The first time I spent a weekend on this beach, I took mostly scenery pictures.  This time I only took pictures of Molly!  On a side note, last time I was on this beach, I was unknowingly a couple of weeks pregnant with this little girl, so it was very nice to return with her and have these pictures of us together!

diy {No Sew Canvas Bag}

I have not been blogging hardly at all this summer, not even for photography.  Instead I have been busy finishing school while making memories with my girl and soaking up the last few days I have at home as a stay at home mom.

Molly will be starting preschool on Monday with Joy School at our church.  Now that I have graduated and I am working on my alternative teaching certification, I will be subbing for a good part of this school year.  So no more lazy days at home for us.

I am very excited for the change of pace though.  Molly loves playing with other kiddos and learning new things, so Joy School will be so good for her.  I am excited to meet new kids, new moms, and even excited to start working again.  This will be good.  Tough but good.

This whole week I have been preparing and gathering things for the start of school.  One thing she needed was some kind of bag to fit her daily folder, water bottle, and her blanket.  So I decided make a cute little canvas bag for her.  It is the perfect size for her!

Not to mention, I have been dying to do some kind of tutorial so here it is!  I got all of the supplies from Hobby Lobby.

Supplies:

• Canvas bag
• Iron on letters
• Scrap lace
• Scrap fabric
• Scrap ric-rac 

Step 1:
Iron your canvas bag to remove any wrinkles.  Then iron on your letters following the instructions on the back of the package.

Step 2:
Once your bag is all ironed, you can move onto making scrap fabric rosettes.  I just cut scrap fabric in to two inch strips and then just twist and hot glue as I went.  Kiki from Kiki and Company has a great rosette tutorial here.

Step 4:
Then just start playing around with the placement of your rosettes, lace, and ric-rac until it looks the way you want it to.

Step 5:
Finally, using a generous amount of hot glue, glue everything in place.

My little helper made it nearly imposible to get a decent picture of the bag.  Luckily I was able to get most of the bag finished during her nap.  So when she woke up she was happy to model her new bag and wave bye-bye!

I have two more little preschool projects in the works. Hopefully I will post about those soon!  Until then, here is a little sneak peek with my little helper right in the middle of it!