Hand Project

The sunrise over the pond always makes me pause.

"May you find bold, unbridled joy in a thousand little ways you didn't expect."

Morgan Harper Nichols

Kelly has a little Christmas tree at her apartment that she and Sam decorated with shells and sand dollars...and other nature finds. 

I made her a tiny felt tree with some tiny beach finds underneath including a few teeny sand dollars I found at Popham Beach.

It was the perfect evening hand project.

And I will admit that I found a little unbridled joy making these flat bottomed mini bags. I repositioned the handles on one to became a mini version of the larger Trader Joe's grocery bag...which held Kelly's tiny tree. For the small stand up bag I folded over the top and instead of securing it with string through the holes...I inserted a stick. 

I referenced this video tutorial for the folding technique for the flat bottom...and it worked perfectly. The brown bag paper was a little thick for crisp side folds...but that would work well with thinner paper.

Here is a photo of the Crafty Cottage bag from the link above. I'm going to try it with different papers including gelli prints and I do love the book pages.