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Happy Earth Day!

While thinking long and lazily over Bombay Chai about what Miles and I could do to celebrate Earth Day this morning, we patchworked a quick mailbox together out of paper scraps, a shoebox and a brad.  The surfboard flag is in a shadow in the photo, but rather snazzy.  He loves LOVES getting mail and so I've been out sneaking little notes and cards in there so that when he checks it (every  ten minutes) there is a little surprise waiting for him. 

Back to Earth Day!  Earth Day is sort of every day for us, but one thing that we don't do that I'd like to is cruise our neighborhood and pick up paper and trash that gets blown around in the weekly blusters we seem to have here.  There is a blue Christmas bulb outside our gate stuck in a tumbleweed, for example that must have rolled over here a season ago that will be the first in my bag!

Totemania

"You cannot have too many tote bags" --Lotta Jansdotter

Thank god someone finally said it.

Number 2 measures 13"x14" and I will use it to carry to work because ALL of my stuff including my appointment book fits.  I used canvas that I washed about 4 times for the bottom panel since I beat my things up and my car is generally dusty all the time.  I also created a ton of shortcuts so I can whip one of these out in an hour or so.

Here is a little 8x9 that is perfect for M to carry his many trains in.  "Mama make Miles owl bag," finally resulted in some action.  Tote #3 was the fastest yet.  And I think the most fun because of it's cuteness factor and the fact that M was milling about my feet picking up threads and talking with me as I sewed.

Drinking so much Mighty Leaf that I should have about 50 totes by the end of the day if I keep it up.  Green Tea Tropical is my pick today-since quitting coffee I've found a new vice that lights me up almost as much but without the muddy feeling java left me with.  Mighty Leaf does not fill their silky biodegradable mesh bags with tea dust, but rather with proper looking loose-leaf tea and flowers.  Pretty!

How are you? 

Tote-ally

I am crafting up a storm.  Recycling the hub's old jeans, you name it.  Got one of these babies from Santa.  Can't stop.  People I share my life with are beginning to wonder why I don't come to bed anymore! 

This is my favorite ribbon to date and this is my next fabric purchase.  I've not been moved by Japanese textiles until now, I'm not really into cutesy.  But they seem to be getting really interesting lately.  It's like Japanese-Scandinavian lovechildren.  I can't get enough. 

M played his ukelele that we got him in Hawaii for us at bedtime last night.  He sang "Puff the Magic Dragon" many, many times.  I'm not coming close to keeping up with all of the mindblowing things he says and does.  I'm now entering with full membership into the phase known as Where Does the Time Go? parenting as we'd been warned of, cousin to the wistful, They Grow So Fast....