Library Bags

Recently, we have been going to the library more often. While reading one of my favorite blogs, Grace Violet, I saw where she had made tote bags for her daughters to take to the library (she posted them on Blissfully Domestic). I was actually inspired enough to make some for A.J. and Abigail. I only had to buy the denim for A.J.'s (which was only $2.50 per yard at Wal-mart) and had scraps of other fabrics for the rest of both their bags. So, for hardly anything, I accomplished the following goals:


1. I finally made a bag for MY children, instead of a gift for someone else. It was actually much more fun!
2. They have their own bags, unique to their own style, to carry library books. (Which also means I don't have to carry them).
3. They have somewhere specific to keep their library books at home (to keep them from getting mixed in with our own books).
4. I feel more justified in the fact that I always overbuy fabric... I actually used the extra!


Here are a few pictures. Don't look to close because they are definitely homemade!