raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens....

These are not a few of my favorite things...I do like raindrops....but My favoritest things are all material things (except for my family of course.) (I am a material girl in a material world) (Not like fabric material...even though I love love fabric and have tupperwares full of it) (did I break the record for the most parenthesis used in a blog post?)

Anyways, what I am trying to get at and doing a horrible job at is that I love my sewing box.

My mother gave it to me on my 19th birthday (my mom is one of my favoritest things too!)

I have had it for..... a few years! I almost gave away my age! two years...that is all I have had it. Okay maybe a bit more. But I love it.

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See the wear and tear? It's been used.

But with all things....it needs a little sprucing.

I hate change.

Just ask my parents when they got rid of their purple toilet.

(I wanted them to turn it into a planter)

But my baby needed a makeover. It was time.

I didn't want to do a major overhaul so I found some fabric  to match the navy blue so I could just leave the inside alone

Cut with an inch access.

I just folded each side and hot glued it all the way around. Tucking it right against that rope design thing that goes all the way around.

I even used the velcro...just ripped that sucker right off and hot glued it right back on!!!

Made a little tab to close

Ironic...me hot gluing my sewing box....but no... My glue gun was hot and ready to go (that's what she said for you the OFFICE fans)

Added a button. and my initial

SEW much better!