9 Bags have found new homes!!!

A big thank you to Bill and Shanny over at Simply Good Kitchen for a terrific show.
I cant believe I forgot my camera....
I met some wonderful people and found some new homes for my 'babies'.
Thanks Virginia!!!


Thanks Debra!! It was a pleasure to meet you. Cant wait to come to your party in October!!

Thanks Fran!!

Thanks Susan!!

Thanks Shanny!

Double Triple Quadruple.....Thank You to Shanny for hosting this show. This is her appreciation gift!!

Thanks Sylvia!!

Thanks Virginia!!

Thanks Alice!! Cant wait to do lunch!!

Thanks friend!! (Name withheld to protect the innocent....smile!!!!)

Simply Good Kitchen open house July 25 Birmingham MI

Here is part of the line up for my upcoming open house at Simply Good Kitchen on July 25. If I have not told you about this place......I could go on for hours. Simply Good Kitchen is owned by two wonderful chefs, Bill and Shanny Apodaca. They both trained and the Culinary Art Institute. They invite people to come learn how to make the most wonderful meals you will ever eat!!! I encourage you to sign up for a class. They have over 6000 people that are on their mailing list so they have to do their sign ups for their classes by lottery. You have one week to sign up for the class and then hope and pray you win the lottery!!! Oh so worth every minute of wait.

These will only be available at the open house. Usually I consider a sale a sale but I can not get my bags made fast enough....(sigh, I love this problem!!) I am a busy bee in my craft room making wonderful one of a kind purses for you.

New Bags

Brown with 2 Flowers. This one is made from a great brown upholstery fabric, leather bottom, and leather belt for strap.........$85.00 Sold!!! Thanks Mary!!

This bag is rather large and its strap is really long. It can fit over your head to go across your body. The green is a lime linen upholstery fabric. Very fun summer bag. Bottom is leather and the belt is really soft too! ......$95.00 Sold!!!!! Thanks Andrea!!

This bag is super fun. I love the green and blue circles. This is a upscale commercial grade Robert Allen fabric. The strap is a yummy large mans belt that is just worn enough to be really soft and buttery. The bottom is a retro leather coat. The inside has a zippered pocket and another divided pocket on the other side. It also includes a pocket on the front for imediate necessities........phone, keys, pacifier.... This could be used as a diaper bag because it is easily wiped down...........$95.00 Available

LOVE this bag. It was a suede leather skirt that has been turned into a lovely bag. The inside is a sturdy jean fabric with a zippered pocket and a quick access pocket. The strap on this is totally groovin'. It has a snake print on it. .........$115.00 Sold!!!

Procrastination

Did I ever tell you that procrastination sometimes is my middle name? However, over the last few months I think it went beyond procrastination into something clinical. I could not seem to get myself motivated after I moved all my stuff to the basement. You see I have a small confession to make, organization and I do not really go together. I need Neicy Nash and the cleaning crew to come to my basement and show me how to organize my shtuff. I am starting to muddle through but it has been as slow as molasses. I know if I had a system, I would be able to pump out bag after bag.


I hope to have pictures and updates in the next few days of what I have accomplished. And hopefully new bags!! Yes that is right...new bags........summery ones too!! The summer bags will be limited in quantity this year because I must make my fall bags. I have too much stuff for the winter bags so I need to make them and get them ready to ship out.

I've been busy busy busy!!!

I have been a shopping fool!!! I have gone to almost every Value World in the Detroit Area scrounging for goodies for my bags. Sorry if you came to those stores after me.........I cleaned them out of sweaters, belts, and leather coats............oh boy what a productive month for shopping. Not very productive for actual bag making in the last month. But I got a lot of "seeds" for my bags. I will be having many many bags this year.

My goal is to sell 500 bags.......yes that is right five hundred. Anybody want to come work with me? I need washers for my sweaters and people to sew the inside of my bags. I am wanting to trade services for a while. Your motto needs to be "will work for bags!!!;)"
This was the first few stores....

For my leather garden. OOOHhhhhhh yummy leather!!! That is about 12-15 leather coats.

That is my oldest in the middle of my entry way in a mountain.....or a sea of sweaters. He is pretty big too, he is 8. So it is a sizable sea.

Have you ever felt like someone has picked your house up and shook it like a snow globe and then put it back down again and said........"could you clean this up?" That has been my month away from blogging. I am hoping to share with you some "after" photos. I could never show the before.....a little to "real" for my bloggy friends. Well actually I guess I have given you a taste with these photos of my entry way..... I have been trying to move my bag making operation from the small bedroom 10x10 to the basement that is a bit larger.

Hope you all had a beautiful February and are ready for a "green" March. I would love that for up here but things do not start getting green until May.

In desperate need of a coupon

To all of you in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area:

I need to get a Value World coupon. If you see it in the paper, would you please let me know so I can go get the paper? Value World is a thrift store. So if you dont use yours.......pretty please may I have it? I think it will be coming out February 22 in the Red Plum coupons in the Detroit Press and the U of M newspaper (.....whatever that is.) I have never seen the U of M newspaper.

Thanks!!

2 New Bags

Pink Passion.........($115) The flower on the front is actually a pin that you can take off and put on your coat if you would like. The interior is a vintage fabric, belt is Eddie Bauer bottom is a retro leather coat. I will try to upload a photo of that later. Sold!!!!! Thanks Kim!!!

Pink Birdies on a Limb..........($105) The sweater is JCrew 50% wool and 50% cotton. Yummy. And the belt is a Ralph Lauren and the bottom is a retro leather coat. Sold!!!!

Friday my wee one came home sick from school with a fever. I had my whole day of thrifting planned......I never plan. The one day I have planned and it goes bust. Maybe this Friday I will be able to go. I am on the hunt for 500 sweaters and belts and several leather pieces. If you are getting rid of any.......please think of me. I will give you first dibs on the bags that are made from them and I will also provide some sort of discount on your purchase (usually about $2 per item, leather coats a little more). I will need to get a sheet of some sort to make it uniform for the discount.

So needless to say, I did not get much done this weekend except lay on the couch with my two babies (who are not babies anymore....5 and 8) and watch movies.