Hello to all! This week my kids started school. Such a bittersweet time because it means the end to wonderful summer and the beginning of a new phase of life. This year my oldest entered the 5th grade!! It is hard to imagine that I am the parent of a 5th grader and to top it off my BABY started kindergarten. It is so funny seeing him in school with all the big kids and his back pack is hanging down to his knees. He is still my little guy. I get very emotional just thinking about how quickly our kids grow up and how some days just drag on but years still, somehow, seem to fly by. So today I want to share with you wonderful idea to spruce up a plain back pack. And  since this week blog is focused on our children I would also like to share with you a bible verse that has become my prayer for my children just as it was Paul, Silas and Timothy's prayer for the church of the Thessalonians.
       2Thessalonians 1:11-12 (the message) 
    To My Babies,  
         Because we (I) know that this extraordinary day is just ahead, we (I) pray for you all the time - pray that our God will make you fit for what he's called you to be, pray that he'll fill your good ideas and acts of faith with his own energy so that it amounts to something. If your life honors the name of Jesus he will honor you. Grace is behind and through all of this, our God giving himself freely, the Mater, Jesus Christ, giving Himself freely.   Amen!
     My eyes well up every time I read this passage, it is powerful!

       So here is my kindergartner's back pack. This was an old back back but in great condition and I didn't want to buy a new one if I didn't have to but I also wanted his  first back pack to be special.

I used my GemMagic to make the N and attach the gold stars above the pocket zipper as well. The army stars were iron-ons left over from a previous project.

Let me know how you spruce up those old or plain back packs.

Hugs.....Naomi