The new year is coming to us on Friday, and I’m looking forward to it. 2009 just wasn’t my favorite year. I can’t really put my finger on why this year was such a dud, but 2010 has got to be better. Right?
One thing I like about a new year is the chance everyone has to start fresh, and even reinvent one’s self if that’s what one wants to do. I’m not sure I want to go to all the trouble of reinventing myself, but perhaps you do. And that’s where today’s Fancy Notions offering comes in.
Reinvent yourself as a French person. Just take these notions, slap them onto your backpack, et voila – you have a naughty French backpack. The Paris and Eiffel Tower patches are flocked iron-ons, so you can still be a lazy American during the reinvention process. I’m not sure exactly what is so French about the blue ribbon flower appliques,

other than they’re called “appliques,” so from now on I’ll refer to them as fleurs bleues.
Are you ready to reinvent yourself as a French person? If so, just write in the comments section of your desire to own these notions. I will mail all three items – the flocked patches, saucy lace bit, and appliques des fleurs bleues – free of charge to the first person who writes in sounding even remotely serious. Sorry; offer not available to French people. Reinventors only, please.






