The Green Big Backpack

It was my littlest’s birthday yesterday. There was something like fifty things on her birthday list all starting with Green. Green erasers, green pencils, green everything. The backpack was the thing I thought she needed the most. She’s been carrying two or three bags to school since the beginning of the year, not because we didn’t have a backpack that would fit her stuff, but because she likes pretty bags.

She finally got tired of carting so much stuff and asked for a big backpack. A green big backpack. A pretty green big backpack. Not camo.

Did you know that there are not oodles of green backpacks in the stores? Especially not pretty green backpacks.

I bought a NOT green backpack, but it is big, and it has rollers which gives her little back a break. Here is a picture of the not green, not pretty backpack. Well it’s not the exact backpack. I couldn’t find a picture of the exact same one:

You may know that fabric soaks up paint. The first coat of green disappeared. They only place you could see green at all was on the two little white stripes. I was a little discouraged, but I put another coat on anyway. That worked better. Not perfect, but better.

Then I started with the sparkle paints. Believe it or not there’s a pink sparkle paint over the stars. There’s a green sparkle paint most other places, except where there is purple sparkle paint. I’m not sure the pictures do it justice.

I may have to take more. Take a look. And in case you couldn’t tell – along with green and dozens of other things, she asked for stars and dragonflies for her birthday. Click on the image to see the sparkles better.