Chapstick/Lip Balm Pouch View in Etsy Shop This is a request my 2nd grader (Bug) had been asking for. She picked out the cheetah print fabric! I love projects I can make with scraps and fabric quarters. We were excited to find out that Michaels is now selling fabrics so we went over the weekend and picked out an assortment of fat quarters. This gave me the opportunity to finally come up with a pattern for these pouches. We modeled the size off of a standard chapstick tube. Both of us were very excited with how these turned out. She proudly attached one on her school backpack to hold her soda flavored lip balm. If I get around to it this weekend I will try to convert the pattern to a PDF and share it to this post in case anyone is interested.

The End A little over a year ago my grandmother passed away from COVID pneumonia. She had many pre-existing conditions that never seemed to slow her down. Over the course of a one month hospital stay, we watched as COVID took all the fight out her. I will never forget walking my grandma into the emergency room two weeks after she first got COVID. I replay this decision in my head often wondering if bringing her to the hospital was the right choice. It was the day after my youngest daughter's second birthday. The first sign that something was very wrong was that she couldn't walk next door to our house to celebrate. My youngest daughter was her pride and joy and reason for living. I had been checking her oxygen daily since she tested positive for COVID and on this day it was below 90 and staying there. My mom and I decided it was time for the ER. This day marks the beginning of the end of my time with her. The doctors immediately noticed her oxygen as a concern and when they ...