Beautiful Burnette

These flowers don't really have anything to do with my following pictures. I just thought they were beautiful and matched the bag I recently made. I call this bag "Beautiful Burnette," not brunette. This was for Liam's amazing first grade teacher. I really did love her. I know it's only Liam's second teacher but as a mom it's been so wonderful seeing someone care about my child and his learning.I chose to make her a bag because she loves to read and every time I volunteered we would discuss books and talk about the characters like they were real people. I love that! I also learned that her favorite colors were pink, green, and blue. I couldn't' find a blue that I was satisfied with so I stuck to the happy combo of pink and green. Mrs. Burnette is also very girlie and I felt I needed to make this bag just as girlie.
I was pleased with the outcome. (Autumn give me your bag back. I'm embarrassed. I will make you a new one.) The only problem that I ran into was that I soon learned after my plan for the bag that she had just gotten a Nook. I figured there wouldn't be much need for a bag anymore and she would need a cover for that cool new gadget.
This led me to the "nook" cover. It was going badly. I couldn't seem to create what was in my mind. FRUSTRATING!!! I had to do it twice. Unsuccesful.
Third time's a charm, maybe? In this picture I am realizing that the elastic is very crooked. I had a much different vision here to hold the nook but that elastic was not cooperating and I had to come up with something.I now have created the trifold cover. I actually liked it better.I don't know what's up with this pic but that one side of the bag really isn't all lopsided.