Well, it's back to the beads! After too long away, due to a myriad of duties and distractions, I'm making rosaries again. I'm so excited about this bunch and it feels good to be beading again. The slow repetitive process of stringing one bead upon another, provides me with ample time for prayer and meditation. Prayers especially for whoever will eventually own each piece.
Yesterday, I ended up on a rabbit trail of my own. I was visiting a few blogs that I had not been to in a while and came across this post on Cay's blog. That post took me to the 4 Real Learning forum where one click led to another and I stumbled into this post on Rebecca's blog. Anyway, it reminded me that I always intended to make some of those neat dressing frames for the preschool aged kids, or at least something vaguely similar.
I ended up combining the need for a church "quiet tote" for Marie (to carry her little books that help her to keep semi-quiet during Mass) with the dressing frame thought.
I dug deep into my stash of fabric scraps and found enough medium weight prints to make an 8" x 11" mini tote. It has a pocket with a button flap on one side and a zippered pocket on the other.
The top is closed with a large snap. I haven't yet figured out where to stick eyelets to lace and tie, maybe the handles. I figured Velcro would be a bit loud for church. :-)
