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.