The simple everyday bag -Tutorial

Hi, everyone! I´ve been making some fun stuff in my studio and I wanted to share with you this simple tutorial for a simple everyday bag.

Material:

Short handle - 10cm x 7cm (1 piece)
Long handle - 35cm x 7 cm ( 1 piece)
Cute printed fabric ( apples) - 13 x 25cm ( 1 piece)
Green fabric - 18 x 25cm ( 2 pieces)
Green fabric for lining - 25 x 45cm ( 1 piece)
1 metal ring

Let´s sew the two green pieces to the apple fabric piece , this is gonna be the outer bag.

It´s gonna look like this, press.

Fold it in half, right on the center of the apple fabric and sew like the next step picture...

Pin and repeat for the lining fabric

Open them and leave it like this

Now, you' re gonna sew the bottom of the bag so pay attention for the printed fabric design, you will not want it upside down!

For the lining fabric, you´ll do the same but there is a little space of 5cm to leave open

like this:

Boxing corners : Mark 3cm x 3cm in all 4 sides of the bottom - make this on both the outer bag and the lining.

Opening the corners you will have this:

Sew them

Turn it and it will look like this, gorgeous!!!

Now, let´s sew both bags right sides together - the outer bag goes inside the lining

For safety, pin all around and then, sew.

Sew carefully

From that space you left open ( lining) bring the outer bag out.

Very simple!

Don´t forget to sew that open space, you can sew by hand or machine.

After pressed, it´s gonna look like this!

Now let´s make the short handle
Take the 10 x 7cm fabric, fold and press like this:

... and this

and fold again

Sew all the way, ooops, this doesn´t look so good, I´m sorry, I should practice a little bit more...

Repeat the same process for the long handle

Short handle will hold this metal ring

Place it right on the center of the apple fabric, sew the short handle on it

The same should be done to the long handle on the other side

Your everyday bag is complete!!!

Feel free to use this image of the finished everyday bag in your blog and link to my blog ( Thank you!)


I ´d love to know what you think about this tutorial and also, thank you for taking your time reading this long, long post!!

Enjoy your weekend sewing , crafting, cooking , relaxing, drinking a cup of coffee, playing with children or simply, enjoy life!

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After all these garden watering she got all her clothes wet and she needed a real bath!

September for us means Mulberry picking season! Yesterday Camila went with her Dad and her grandma to do so and they got home , so happy , pink hands and a basket full of fresh mulberries!

Today I made some mulberry jam, yummy!!!

This weekend we had visitors in our home, our nephew grows organic tomatoes and these were great to make tomato sauce. Our kitchen was crowded and very busy this weekend!!! He bought to us some organic eggs , too.



These days have been very unusual ...
I had a funeral, a wedding , family people staying at our home , lots of talking and cooking ! Our dinner table had more people than the usual THREE ( or the almost FOUR) and the gathering , the talking , the blessing of being all together around the table was such a treasured moment for me. I felt a little bit of bliss here and there in every moment of these days.

Wishing a wonderful week with magical moments to all of you!!! Thank you for stopping by!

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Crazy creatures

We had some fun making this stuffed Sock Monsters with Camila´s odd socks and she enjoyed picking buttons up , choosing the felt for the eyes and creating many shapes to make a new friend!
She brought to me from her US trip, a very interesting book : Sewing for children by Emma Hardy and after looking at all chapters she wanted me to make these Sock Monsters and the good point is that it didn´t take us 30 minutes to make one!


This one was her creation, she took the piece that I ´ve cut to make the first monster and she made this one as a puppet.


This one looks like a flying bunny!

And all the family monster we made in this sunny Sunday afternoon!

Wishing you a lovely week full of joy and good things!!!

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Coming back home

My mom just got back home from a long trip to Japan ( my Dad stayed there) and then we decided to make a welcome back home lunch and here are some pictures of what were served like the pork ribs my brother Lucas made, they were delicious!

And I made some salad with lots of palm hearts and organic eggs...

My brother also cooked this wonderful tasty beef stew with some Japanese spices he ´s brought from his last trip. He really knows what to buy at supermarkets!

On Monday my daughter arrived from her trip to Disneyland ( Orlando ) with her uncle and her aunts and she was so very happy that I could see in her brilliant eyes! She has so many stories to tell, so many things to say and she couldn´t even sleep because she had a lot to talk!!!

Outside this particular bunch of flowers , white orchids are everyday morning blessing when we open our window, it´s magnificent and I don´t get tired of looking at them!

This is a tiny bromelia...


Winter blue sky almost everyday but very, very cold!

And this is a gift my Dad sent to me , an owl family that rings with the wind, so beautiful and all iron made, it´s a typical Japanese gift and I really love it, I hung it inside my house because it´s so windy these days that it would drive me crazy!!! So when we arrive home and we open the front door it rings, with its gentle sound and it brings some kind of peace at home!
And after a week out of home , Camila missed her piano lessons and here she is, trying to remember what Grandma had taught to her! Practice, practice...

I hope you ´re having a good week, full of joy and inspiration as ours have been.

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Here comes a new baby!

It´s official and I am here to share with you the news!!!

A new baby will arrive in March , next year and we are all so very excited about it!

I´ve been feeling some illness and distemper of pregnancy and I´m trying to stay quiet at home, drinking herb teas and reading a lot.

My daughter Camila is traveling with her uncle and aunts to Disneyland and she´s very happy about everything that´s happening around here and there and as I write this post I guess she is taking photos with Minnie or Pooh...

Wishing you all the joy and love to you this week and very excited to share with you my new feelings!!!

Love you!

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Weekending

I found myself completely in need of dropping everything and head to a trip for a far place, somewhere that we could stay the three of us together enjoying this beautiful winter season that doesn´t feel so cold. Days are warm and nights are chilly and the sky of this place called Minas is amazingly blue... The town´s called São Lourenço and its water is sold in the whole country.

After 5 hours driving we arrived to the hotel and in the morning , all sort of bread, cake and juice on the breakfast table waiting for us was simply a delight! Plus, the typical jellies, cheese bread and Minas cheese were so very yummy!

Say Hi!

And now, heading to the old Steam Locomotive small trip! This is what I really love, TRAINS!

This one goes to a small village called Soledade de Minas taking tourist passengers for an interesting trip, some musicians sing in the train cars and they sell beverage and there are lots of fun with every kind of people!

At Soledade : farmer´s market , lots of fruits, vegetables...

And back to São Lourenço , you can see this bottle of water written on it, the famous water that we drank a lot at restaurants, at the Parque das Águas to refresh ourselves...

Contemporâneo : a very good restaurant where you can taste many kind of food, from Japanese food, Italian or this typical local trout that sounded very tasty , Edu ate it.

And for dessert: Petit Gateau, very yummy and ... sweet!




I do so love trains and the history behind them, the magic of the whistle that we can hear from very far and its particular smell of the smoke...

And I´m glad we could share this moment with our little one ...

Good, good times!!

Have a wonderful week full of joy and inspiration!!!

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Pic Nic Day

Looking outside the window, the sky was clear and blue inviting us for a delightful day spent in the garden that meant no TV and no chores for a while, today! Okay , before anything I had started my day using the washing machine, cooking breakfast, making this and that ...


She started playing on the ground with her cooking set , making lots of food to her stuffed animals and then we had this idea of having lunch with Pic Nic food, very simple but a Pic Nic is fun, easy, entertaining and feeling the warmth of the sun on the skin , looking at the leaves falling on the water and the touch of the breeze on our faces sounded irresistible!

:: what was served:

some organic fruit , "onigiri" ( which is a Japanese traditional food ) that we made ourselves and chicken nugets, just because we love them!!


This pic nic blanket was the first thing I made to this house when we were still moving into it and finally today we could use it properly and we bought this Homemade Apple Cake at the local organic farmer´s market that is also very yummy, with iced tea, it was delicious!

We ended up the Pic Nic moment laughing and talking and eating a lot!!! After that, some football and frisbee playing to keep our bodies working out!!

Wishing you a lovely day , we´ll be back in a few days after a small trip to Minas , love to you all!


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