birthday purse

Rowan has a new friend who just turned 4.  I asked her what she wanted to give her friend for her birthday and she decided on a purse.   

I made one of these for Rowan when Charlie was born so I knew exactly what to do.  I don't have a pattern for this one - last time there was a bit of trial and error but this time it was seemless.  It took me about 20 minutes and cost me nothing.  She picked out the fabrics and the button.  Because I love rick rack so much, I decided to add some at the last minute. I imagine there will be more of these made for future birthday friends.  Fun, easy, and a sweet gift.

The funny (embarrassing) part about this, however, is what happened the day of the party. I email the mom that morning to ask her the time & place of the party.  Just for the record, I felt awful that I had to email her to ask her this.  I don't know the woman at all and can imagine what she was thinking when she got my email (it gets better so keep reading).  But, I had left the invitation in the Subaru which Eric had driven to work that day so there was nothing else I could do.  Apparently, I forgot to write down another key item in my calendar as well - she emailed back: "Oh no!  The party was on Tuesday!  We missed Rowan but figured someone was sick.  I'll be sure to get the party favors to her."  It was Thursday.  Nice work mama Jill!  All I could do was to laugh at myself and hope that Rowan didn't get too upset.  When I told Rowan she said "It's fine mama.  I didn't want to go to that party and I already told you that."  (which, she had and I had been working on convincing her to go anyway).  C'est la vie...and yes, we did still give the birthday girl her purse.

Oh - and did I mention I love rick rack?  Where did the name "rick rack" come from anyway?  I now have a huge stash of vintage rick rack thanks to the bargain bag I found for $0.99 at Value Village a few weeks ago.  What a treasure!  Doesn't get much better than that.