August 19, 2008
Bags of Character
- All prices include shipping and handling within the contiguous United States. There may be an additional charge for shipments outside the contiguous United States.
- Customer selects from a broad array of Satin Brocade material. All bags may not be availabe in all materials.
- All bags are individually handmade.
- Payments are accepted via PayPal.
- Please contact Kathy at bagsofcharacter at comcast dot net for availability and/or more information.
Please scroll down for additional fabric choices.
Single Bo Bag- $30
Ecu Bo or Multiple Bo Bag- $30
Tunfa Bag- $30
Katana or Sword Bag- $30
Tekko Bag- $15
Nunchaku Bag- $15
Fabric Choices
Background of black with woven black scrolls featuring a metallic gold chrysanthemum with small fuchsia and red accent chrysanthemum. Code: Black 1
Smooth black background featuring metallic gold chrysanthemum with magenta highlights. Code: Black 2
Black background with woven metallic gold Asian pattern featuring large metallic silver and soft pink spider chrysanthemum and metallic silver and baby blue flower accented with silver daisies. Code: Black 3
Background of black with woven black flowers featuring deep red chrysanthemums. Code: Black 4
Background of black with woven black flowers featuring metallic silver chrysanthemums. Code: Black 5
Black background with metallic silver pattern. Code: Black 6
Black with woven pattern of Japanese chrysanthemums. Code: Black 7
Rich smooth burgundy background featuring metallic gold and green butterflies. Code: Burgundy 1
Smooth magenta background with metallic gold, brown and silver chrysanthemums, bamboo and medallions. Code: Magenta 1
Smooth magenta background with metallic gold and silver cherry blossoms. Also available in red, gold and lime green. Code: Magenta 2
Soft lavender background with metallic gold and brown bamboo. Also available in royal blue and pink/red. Code: Lavender 1
Regal red background with black woven patter of dragons and flowers. Code: Red 1
Smooth regal red background with black cherry blossoms. Also available in gold, magenta and lime green. Code: Red 2
Regal red background with metallic gold medallions and black and metallic gold flowers. Code: Red 3
Regal red background with small metallic gold and black medallions and dragons. Code: Red 4
Brilliant red background with metallic gold dragons and flowers. Code: Red 5
Brilliant red woven with a geometric pattern. Code: Red 6
Smooth royal blue background with metallic silver and blue bamboo. Also available in brown. Code: Blue 1
Royal blue background with metallic silver flowers. Code: Blue 2
Smooth emerald green background with black and metallic gold lotus flowers. Code: Green 1
Olive background with woven green scrolls featuring metallic gold chrysanthemumns and medallions. Code: Olive 1
Smooth olive background featuring metallic fold and brown cherry blossoms and metallic gold Asian characters. Code: Olive 2
Soft gold background featuring metallic gold chrysanthemums highlighted by red and blue daisies and oriental characters. Code: Gold 1
Gold background featuring metallic gold and brown dragons and peacocks highlighted with blue. Code: Gold 2
Smooth brown background with metallic gold and brown bamboo. Also available in royal blue. Code: Brown 1
August 19, 2008
Looking for Me?
I’m guest posting over at Karl’s place today. Please visit, give Karl a comment, and while you’re there give him some encouragement (he recently quit smoking).
August 17, 2008
General Housekeeping
We came back from the beach with mosquito bites the size of oranges and a bit too much laundry. I’m not sure what they’re putting in soft-serve ice cream these days, but I think I may need to replace Lil C’s entire wardrobe.
We thought we’d come back to a framed house, but instead it’s still just a basement. The only development is that we now have the beginnings of a low rock wall on one side of our property. It’s pretty cool looking, so I’m happy about that, especially since it was a surprise development. I’m not, however, happy about my lumber sitting there. Wednesday will be two weeks without any house action so that’s a bit discouraging. It better start happening this week or else I’m going to start to worry about our settlement date.
We’re gearing up for the start of school, Big I’s and mine, with only one week until go time. I’m also in my mad planning and writing mode for my guest post at Secondhand Karl’s place. We’re also gearing up for fantasy football season. We have one drop-out so far and I’m anticipating a second drop-out, so there are two teams in the all blogger "Smacktalkers Anonymous" fantasy football league. If you’re interested in getting your heiney handed to you running a team, shoot me an email. Potential participants will be screened for football knowledge and violent tendencies.
Playing so far are: Papa Bradstein, Bush Mackel, Goonsquad Sarah, Ikigai, and everyone’s favorite commenter "Marcus Aurelius" or "Chris39." If you’re interested, I need to know soon because the draft is next weekend. Time is of the essence.
Hopefully, we’ll have some cool house pictures to show you this week. Our countertops are coming in next week, but we still don’t have walls. Weird.
August 11, 2008
Vacation, ER visits, and Super-glue
One would think that with moving, living with my parents for three months, and starting a new job, I’d have reached my stress quota. Not quite.
We arrived at our hotel for six days at the beach yesterday. We were only here about five minutes when I heard Big I say to Lil C, "let’s go jump on the beds." They were understandably excited. After driving through pouring rain, hail and high winds bad enough to make us pull off the road several times and drive about 20 mph on the turnpike, we had finally arrived. The ride was much longer than usual, and the girls were wound up after being released from the car.
After I heard Big I’s idea, I sternly told them both not to jump on the beds and to please calm down. I was busy unpacking the kitchen stuff when I heard a horrific cry. The girls had listened about the bed jumping, but they hadn’t quite grasped the whole calming down part.
You should know that Lil C can not walk and is only programmed to run everywhere she goes. The hotel suite was no different. While running in the room, she tripped as she was coming around the corner of the bed and flew face first right into the very sharp and pointy nightstand.
I picked her up and put her on the bed scanning her face for injures, as I so often have to do. It took only a few seconds before a streak of blood appeared down her face. She had sliced her face open directly beside her right eye. The tears were mixing with blood and making it seem even worse.
It wasn’t good though. As I dabbed at the cut, I realized that she had really sliced herself open. The skin was separated enough to make me nauseated. I’ve done fine with all their injuries up to this point, but this one was different.
We butterflied it shut with our first aid kid and went to the grocery store, with Mr. BBM insisting it was o.k. and not needing of a visit to the ER. While at the grocery store though, the blood was oozing out of the bandage and I was worried (the understatement of the year).
Within the hour we were arriving at the ER for what would be a long night. While we waited for the doctor, Lil C entertained the entire ER by singing her rendition of "Kung Fu Fighting." She looks like she was "kung fu fighting" so at least she had an appropriate theme song. We left the ER this morning around 12:45 a.m. after Lil C’s cut was literally super-glued shut (Thankfully the cut was straight and not long enough to require stitches).
She’s not allowed to swim or get it wet for at least 24 hours. We’ve obviously started our beach vacation off on the right foot. We may have gotten a year of reprieve, but it appears that the BBM family vacation ER curse has struck again.
August 8, 2008
My Pledge
I will be more "with it" this school year. I will be alert in the mornings so that I don’t forget to send things into school with Big I, like morning snacks for example. I will know the dates of all important things for the school year and will remember to dress her accordingly for school spirit days etc. Not only will I be alert, but I will be chipper (if that’s possible in the morning. . . no self doubt. . . I’ll make myself chipper). I will try my best to not be in my pajamas when I drop her off at school (and pick her up). . .
These are the types of things I’ve been reciting to myself all summer long. I may have forgotten to send a snack in with Big I twice all school year, but for those two instances I will be mentally beating myself up forever.
In the interest of starting off the school year at her new school on the right foot, I woke up more than 10 minutes before we had to leave to go register her today. I had all my documentation to register her for school: driver’s license, sales agreement proving she lives in the school district, a letter from my parents stating that we live with them in the school district, blood and hair samples. . . Ok, maybe not those, but it kind of felt like they might be required.
So, as I’m standing there filling out the paperwork and waiting for the woman to finish copying all of my documentation, I realize that my shirt feels like of funny. "Hmm, this neck feels really baggy," I thought as I moved my fingers along the collar. "Hmm, the back of the neck feels sort of low. Did I stretch it out? No that can’t be it. Oh my God!!! I’m wearing my t-shirt backwards!"
So much for being "with it" to start the school year. Trying seems pretty much futile. I’ve said it before and I’ll admit it once again. I’m just not one of those Mom’s.
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