Tote bags

I have not spent anything like the 70,000 hours of remedial work evidently needed for me to be able to easily access my own photos and subsequently post said photos on my blog (!). But I am prepared to take the plunge and put up two blurry pictures of a couple of tote bags I just finished. My daughters are going to their first slumber party tonight (yes, all three of them), and the party is for two sisters who have literally grown up with my three girls. I am stuffing these little bags (which have been appliqued, lined and lovingly assembled by a woman who almost always decides to bite off more than she can chew, and all at the last minute, of course), with blank diaries, colored pencils, rubber stamps and silly hats -- they are little girls, after all.

I don't know how you people so effortlessly publish your photos and various graphics, but my hat is off to you. If you could know the painful minutes I have spent laboring over these two little pictures, you really would feel quite sorry for me, I'm sure...