Let's get started from the beginning, shall we?
It's Summer 2010, I've got a big bin of fabric and a couple new books (including Small Stash Sewing by my favourite blogger Melissa Averinos of YummyGoods - eeeee!). I find a pattern for a sweet kid's sized messenger bag, and make it for my little guy Dez, who is a very grown up 2 year old. He's always asking to hold the grocery bag at the Farmer's Market... so I make him his own bag.
Fast forward to early Autumn... a local shop owner asks me about the bag, loves the bag, wants one for his wife. Said he's going to PAY me for it. (Say whaaaa?)
I make him a replica, special, custom. He pays me. He says, "You should sell these in my store." And he was serious!
Thanks a bunch to Andre at Ciboulette et cie in lovely Midland, Ontario for giving me an opportunity to have my sewing skills pay some bills. At least my fabric bills, at this point.
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