So tomorrow I start school and I can hardly believe it. It seems a little crazy that the summer has flown by so quickly and that I am going to school. At the same time it is exciting to think about getting to work with animals and do something I really enjoy.

So in anticipation of school and everything, I have been doing stuff to get ready. Including making myself a new book bag, which was completely an experiment to begin with. I didn’t have a pattern, just a design idea in my head that I wanted to try. I wanted a messenger type bag without a flap (those get in the way all too often). So I went and bought some fabric and this is what happened…

Pounce helping me think through the design & letting me know what he thinks of my choice of fabric. Hmm… he kind of matches!

The outside of my new bag. It is a black on black pattern with two front snap pockets.

The inside of the bag has a leopard print pattern. There is a zipper pocket & an open pocket.

A picture with the two fabrics showing.

So what do you think? Personally, I love the look of the bag. The bummer part of the whole thing is that while the bag turned out it really doesn’t support heavy textbooks. So, if you could see my textbooks you would see that it obviously isn’t going to work to carry those around. Still I can probably use it for other things. I don’t know if I would try making one of these again, even though it turned out pretty good it was a lot of work to put together. Using a pattern would be much much easier! Although part of the fun is in making your very own!

Axel’s birthday is today, so he is now a 1 year old kitty. In celebration of Axel’s birthday here are two pictures that my dad took of Axel when my parents were visiting. Normally Axel does not sit still for pictures, he likes to run around a lot. I guess he was in a good mood or something though this day, because these pictures are very cute.

Now I think I need to go lay down for awhile. I am not feeling great, and I didn’t even eat the cookies that gave me a migraine last night. Augh! The last thing I need to do is get sick right before school starts. That would not be very cool.

I feel slightly overwhelmed right now. School starts in less than a week and I don’t quite feel ready. I feel like I have so much stuff to get done before then, plus I have that first day of school apprehension… Like when I was supposed to take drivers ed and I didn’t want to go because I was so nervous. I tried really hard to convince my mom to let me stay home, I even told her I didn’t care if I never learned how to drive, but she made me go anyways. Which was probably pretty smart of her, since I now enjoy driving and would miss being able to. Anyways, I think that is kind of how I feel right now. So even though I am nervous & saying all this doesn’t help very much, I will go to school on the first day and probably even enjoy it because that is just the way I am.