LITERARY BOOK BAGS - HOW NOVEL!

...and green! (eco-friendly, but also the color.)  Okay, sorry.  Enough with the puns.  
I was in Barnes & Noble yesterday drooling over their leatherbound classics, when this awesome Rudyard Kipling JUNGLE BOOK-inspired reusable bag caught my eye! (And it was only $1.99.)

Other titles I saw included A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Gone With the Wind (also in green...and lovely!)  You could use these totes for books, groceries, lunch, the beach - the possibilities are endless! I would post a link here, but couldn't find them on B&N's website.


LEATHERBOUND CLASSICS
The classics?  I came away with a couple of those too - most are only $10.00.  Here are some of my favorites:

NO SEWING REQUIRED: FUN & EASY BOOK BAG PROJECT YOU CAN MAKE AT HOME

In the old days, you carried your books like this!
(Click here to see more from this vintage photo shoot by
 Becca Bond Photography)

Kids love having their own book bags to tote their library books around in, so when I was invited to have a "Good Books" table at the Placentia Library's Summer Reading Celebration last weekend, I decided to make a couple of book bags to give away to my young visitors. I held an opportunity drawing for all the families who came by my table and signed up for a chance to win.

I don't sew, so I went to a local fabric store and found cute, inexpensive canvas bags, and iron-on alphabet letters and patches.

Since I couldn't personalize the bags, I decided to put "B-O-O-K-S" in iron-on letters onto each tote.  I chose a denim-blue satchel and robot patch for the boy winner, and a white-and-pink satchel and mermaid patch for the girl winner.

  

It only took me about an hour to cut out the letters and iron them, along with the fun patches, onto both bags...I think they turned out pretty cute!!
  

Here they are, all ready to mail to my two winners so they can take them along on their next visit to their local library.