I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE material. If it's cute and girlie I'll buy it.
The problem is my girls are getting past the stage where they want (or look cute in) home-made clothes.
So I have boxes and boxes of fabric. Some pieces are large and some are scraps from a long-ago project. I just haven't been able to part with these boxes.
"It's my year-supply of fabric" I tell myself.
The prophet said get a year-supply of everything we'd need.
So during the second-coming my kids will probably look like they are from the FLDS church.
If we could only get the "pouf" down...
Now, when I'm doing all this compulsive quaint-stuff-buying, I am amassing plastic bags. I think I have a year-supply of those, too.
Some stores have really good plastic bags (Target). They are sturdy and thick. Good quality.
Other stores (coughwalmartcough) have crappy bags, if I may be so blunt. Fry's bags fall somewhere in between.
Now these stores will try to sell you a re-usable bag.
"Save the Environment"
"Go Green"
"Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah"
Those bags are not much better than the crappy plastic ones. They probably won't last more than a handful of trips to stock up on spaghetti sauce when it's $1 a jar (yet another shout-out to the year-supply).
I'm taking a stand against those crappy bags.
I took my fabric and sewed myself some bags. They are double-sided and reversible. I've wanted to do this for months. Everyday when I open the cupboard under my island, a gajillion plastic bags spill on the floor, and I dream of re-usable bags. But I dream no more. It's a reality!!!
10 bags should do it.
Nice bags. Thick and sturdy.
Big and roomy.
Ready for duty!
Ladies, if you see someone at the store with cute bags, that's me!
(P.S. See the orange chair? It's a future Whimsical Wednesdays project. Don't know when, though. I've got to decide on a few things first.)
(P.S.S. I actually have 2 orange chairs. They were only $10 each at Savers last week. Can you feel the excitement building?!!!)
6 comments:
Debra those are so cute. I have the same problem with plastic bags. One day I took back seven bags full of other bags each to Wal-Mart and I took 5 bags full of bags back to Fry's. The only reusable bags that I have bought are 2 from Sprouts and 2 from Albertsons. Were those bags easy to make? Can you send me some instructions?
you did a super cute job! Great idea for using up old fabric. I can't believe your girls are getting too old for homemade clothes! I remember going to the fabric store to get material for capris for Hannah, etc. Sad!
Those are sooooo cute! You could totally sell those. Oh to be able to sew... (sigh) Can't wait to see what you do with the orange chair! :)
Yah, Robert is always being mistaken for being one of my brothers when we visit my families ward. Pretty funny! Good thing they didn't see Robert and I hold hands or anything, they would be way freaked out thinking he was my bro! Ugh!!
Oh my...where to begin! LOVE TIDE! Every since marrying my husband, he was not a believer in expensive detergent...and me...having been single till 30 LOVED buying what I wanted...sooo shifting to Purex was not happy...and didnt smell yummy. I finally starting sneaking in my secret laundry tip....Downy Lavendar Vanilla dryer sheets. MMMMMM....I only use the dryer sheets and everyone that comes to stay asks what on earth I use on my towels and sheets...they have all converted. HOWEVER...stains were never coming out of clothes and like you said...nothing soft...soo I bought Tide at Costco oneday....and have NEVER swtiched back. Wow...things actually got clean...even if I didnt Zout it out! Shocker! I am soo with you babe!
Point B...LOVE the bags! When can I start taking sewing classes? I cant even sew a straight line, hence the absent sewing machine...but I really want to learn.
Ppoint #3: Love that your voting rxcursion was soo peaceful and short! GO YOU!!! You are just living right!
Ok...it will be Sunday by the time you finish reading this! And I am NOT checking for typos....XOXOX! :)
You are quite the seamstress! Those are awesome bags! You really made those all in 3 hours? That's amazing. I couldn't even cut them all out in 3 hours! Geee!
Great idea! I have a ton of material that I used to collect that I don't know what to do with. Could you send me the "how there made" on them, please?
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