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If youd like to try your hand at sewing your own embroidery, then youll need a sewing machine that is equipped with a special embroidery attachmentlike the Pfaff 2140. These are pricey beasts, however. You should be able to find some lower cost embroidery machine alternatives at most fabric stores. Oh and dont forget, finish your decoration on the back of the bag, too. When your bag is looking fine, reinsert the plastic mesh grille and sew it in place. Use one of your sewing machines fancy stitches for finishing the bag and trimming up the edge of the grilles opening.

Temporarily remove the grille for completing the decoration of the bag. Personalize your bag with embroidery, fancy stitching, EL wiring, sewin lighting, and paintyou name it. Remember, its your bag.

Mark an outline on your bag for the exterior speaker grille and cut it out. No, really, cut it out. You will need a grille that measures approximately 3inches square. Carefully cut out this speaker grille outline. Also, youd better reinforce that cut with a quick zigzag stitch or your whole bag could unravelright before your eyes. Do a quick test fit of the plastic mesh grille. Make sure that your edges are plumb in the corners and that the zigzag stitching has tidied up the raw cut edges.

Install the Macally speaker system. This is a lightweight 3.3 oz wo batteries, portable batterypowered stereo speaker system that only works with the iPod nano 1st generation. You will need three AA batteries for striking up this band. Then relax in 500mW of throbbing output per channel.

Insert your iPod nano and load the bag with the rest of your beaching going goodies. Switch the speakers on, turn on your iPod nano, and play it loud, baby.