I’m not a crafter. Some women sew, knit, cross-stitch, scrapbook – I’m bad to mediocre at almost all of these things. I just don’t have the patience or the fundamental artistic knowledge to make any of these things work for me. However, this does not prevent me from trying and my closets are littered with failed craft projects. I have paint from when I tried to stencil. I have fleece scraps from when I tried to make my own winter mittens. I have knitting needles, cross-stitch packets, and an entire 5 drawer filing system of scrapbook supplies. My most recent project was my own reusable grocery bags. I kept thinking that how difficult could this be? Seriously, how much effort could it take to personalize some tote bags?

Bag #1 came out cute and I was buoyed by my success.

I continued with a more recycle-friendly theme and proceeded to make bag #2:

There is a problem with bag #2 but I didn’t catch it and perhaps if I had I wouldn’t have gotten all arrogant and made bag #3:

Yeah, I can’t wait to hear the peels of laughter from David when he gets home from work tonight.