Coastal Clean-up

September 25, 2010 is "Coastal Clean-up Day" and everyone is invited to help clean-up our beaches.  So, if you haven't signed-up to help out, go visit http://www.cleanupday.org/ for registration and more information.  I'm taking our girl scout troop to help clean-up Imperial Beach this year.  Last year, I went with my oldest daughter's troop and we had a great time.  You won't believe the things we found in the beach. 

Let's do our part to help clean-up our area beaches!  The girl scouts also earn a very cute seagull  patch for their vest.

Back to School

There are many messenger bag tutorials in blogland, but I found a great tutorial over at http://www.mmmcrafts.blogspot.com/  I made the messenger bag for my oldest daughter and she uses it for school practically everyday.  She stuffs it with her books, wallet and lunch and it has not fallen apart.  She has had it for over a year now.  This is her bag:

Since I am homeschooling my youngest daughter this year, I wanted to make her a very special bag to keep

her own notebooks and school stuff.  She picked out this very cute elephant fabric.