Dice Bag

+ 5 Bag of Awesomeness

It can be fun to make up words.  Sometimes my children come up with their own words and definitions.  When they get in one of these moods the end result 90% of the time is them rolling on the floor laughing while they hold their tummies because it hurts so much.  Occasionally I participate in the practice of making up my own word for something because there is not a word that sufficiently describes what I am discussing.  Which usually results in my husband looking at me with humor in his eyes as he questions if that is a real word?  For example, the word awesomeness, it’s a really fun word to use that is not a real word.  I however, did not come up with that brilliant word, it was a friend of mine but I really enjoy using it when I am feeling silly.

Last month this same friend of mine who I first heard of the word awesomeness from asked me to make a dice bag for her brother.  Her brother likes to play table top games that require dice.  She had already gotten him this really funny t-shirt that read” "My name is Inigo Montoya, you rolled a 10, prepare to die.”  Which I thought was hilarious since its taking part of a quote from one of my top 10 favorite movies The Princess Bride.  However, this friend has a tendency towards genericity so she wanted to do more for her brother.  So she asked me if I could make her brother a dice bag to go with the shirt.  After she tossed around a couple of phrases she decided on + 5 bag of Awesomeness. 

It was a neat experience to have my friend there as I was creating it.  She was able to tell what size bag she wanted, what fabric she wanted for the outside and liner of the bag, text size, text placement on the bag, confirmation of the color selections for the embroidery, and approval of the  font style I had created  (I went through a couple of tries before I was happy).  I knew as I was creating it that it was what she wanted for her brother.  Now I probably could have made some general guesses as to all of those things.  However, while I have heard stories about this brother I don’t not know him. So picking out these embellishments would have been challenging. She did say that he liked it so I think that is great that they both got what they wanted.