D Whynn Designs

Summer Solstice

The longest day of the year! School has been out about a month now which means I'm not working and have fully slipped into summer mode. So what does one do in summer mode?

Reading

Just finished reading A Visit from The Goon Squad. Entertaining read but I'm not sure I get the Pulitzer Prize winning part. Today I started Ten Thousand Saints.

Drinking

Blueberry mojitas! We used a recipe similar to this one with a few modifications. To this recipe, we also added Stoli Blueberry and mulled a few blueberries in with the mint and sugar. Cool and refreshing! I figure it must be healthy too with all those blueberries!

Wasting

Way too many hours of my time glued to the Casey Anthony trial on TV. This is local news to us here so all the local TV stations show it, uninterrupted, all day long. Watching the legal proceedings has been fascinating. Judge Perry is my hero. Honestly, I would invite him to dinner but I think he's probably way too busy right now for dinner invitations! I wonder if he likes blueberry mojitas.

Loving

The new fabric lines that are hitting the stores like Prince Charming, 1001 Peeps, Coastal (coming soon), and so many many more. . . . . Must finish a project or two so I can decide which one to order first.

Bummed

About the moronic sewing mistake I made not once but twice. Not only was the mistake stupid (twice) but I used up (as in wasted) a ton of fabric.

Wishing

It would rain!

Unhappy

About the black snake that has trapped itself on my enclosed screen porch right now. I know he's harmless but that doesn't mean I want to be the one escorting him out the door.

What are you doing with your summer?

Messenger - ing

A few months ago we were preparing to leave for California and I decided I needed a new bag. I hadn't made a bag for myself in forever and I would certainly need something for the trip.  It had to be large, with lots of pockets and comfortable to carry across the country and then all over.

Here we have a messenger style bag with lots of inner pockets for my iPad, pens, pencils, cell phone, camera, Kleenex and all my hubby's junk.  Drink holder on the side and zippered pocket on the front for Important Stuff.  I knew I had a cool charm to use as a zipper pull but of course that was no where to be found.

 

An inside shot.  You can tell by the collection of assorted junk in there that I've been carrying it for a while.

 

 

I love going through my old bags and finding all that "bonus" money collecting on the bottom and in the pockets.

Fabric: Assorted Amy Butler prints

Pattern: My own design

And also not one other person in Carmel, CA, was carrying a bag like this. Or even anything close.  I could say because it was unique and original, but I think the truth of the matter is that designer leather bags were The bag to be carried.