Valentine's Mail Bag

The month of February means many things to us all.  It seems that each and every day has been adorned with "This Group's" day.   While February is National Children's Dental Health Month (more to come in a later post), it is arguably most widely associated with Valentine's Day.  This year our household has been on the ball and our homemade Valentine's are finished and ready for preschool.  So I decided to do another Pinterest Valentine's project... a Pottery Barn inspired Mail Bag.  I was pretty proud of my work... it also gave me a chance to sew my first buttonholes.  The great thing about sewing for a young child is that they don't notice the mistakes you made along the way (well, not yet, at least).  Here's how this sewing project turned out...

 

Here's the side view

I took these photos on a cloudy afternoon... so the background is rather dark, unfortunately.

Today I presented my little one with her very own Valentine's Mail Bag.  We plan to give her "mail" each day through Valentine's Day.  Tomorrow is her father's day to send a "letter" to the little one.  It should make for a couple weeks of great fun.  :)

This project was inspired by a blog At Second Street, which was, of course, found on Pinterest.  The tutorial is quite helpful and the bag nicely fits a DVD, which is planned to be the Valentine's Day "Mail" for my little one.  Shhhh!  Don't tell her, the new movie is a surprise.