Some things I Made

Diaper Bag for a gal who had her baby early this year.  I had this finished right before Christmas.

Ribbon Detail

Inside of Diaper Bag 

Bag I made for my Mom.  She bought the fabric several months ago for this and for the one below for my sister.  I finally managed to get at them and make them right before Christmas.

Very fitting for my Mom.  Her dad, my grandpa, raised potatoes for years!

And my sisters

She LOVES raspberries :)

yeah, it took me awhile to get these posted. Not really sure why. But better late than never I suppose. At least on posting pics of stuff I make.

What have you made lately?

Or a better question might be what have you made in the past 2 months??!!!!

~New Stuff~

OK I caved lately and got sucked in by the 'sales'.  Yes, they were good sales, but still not free, so I was still spending money, which I am supposed to be saving not spending.  But it WAS a good deal, and I can blame it all on my friend, Kara, who not only blogged about the deals, but also sent me an email telling me I needed to get myself over to BHLDN.  And like an obedient friend I listened to her:)  I CAN listen to what I'm told!

First up was this 7 1/2 yard roll of linen, scissors included .

Cannot wait to make some pillows or table runners or SOMETHING out of this!

For now it just looks pretty sitting on my shelf in my sewing room.

Isn't this the cutest box?  This is one box I will be keeping.  Too fun!

Can you guess what came in it?? (no it wasn't butter)

Shoes. I'm a sucker for cute shoes. Especially if they have leather lining and soles. AND they are on sale. These fit every one of those categories. I did not deliberate for long. In the cart they went. And there they stayed through the whole check-out process. Which, I might add, I completed as quickly as possible because I was afraid something might sell out before I got mine bought!

I have an outfit all planned around these things.  Now if the snow will only go away I could wear it!

With snow, you will not find me out in anything but boots.

(I know Mom, I know, you never thought you'd see the day)

Candles.  Long, thin tapers.  Grey.  Dripless.  What's not too love?

A whole dozen.  For $9.  You would have bought them too.

Paper medallion fans.  Way too cute and cheap to leave there.  I did refrain from getting all the colors of these they had available and some other really, really cute and fun paper items.  After all I already had the linen and the shoes in my cart.  It was either those two things or get rid of those and buy all paper stuff.  And since the shoes refused to get out of the cart and the linen is rather a business purchase the paper goods had to wait.  Maybe next time they have an awesome sale, offer and extra 40% off AND a friend tells me to get over there!

Have you bought any sale stuff this month?  Any after-Christmas-specials?  Any super deals?  Any splurges?   For yourself?  A gift?  Your family?  Please tell me I'm not the only one who succumbs to this stuff!!  Have a wonderful Sunday - God Bless.

Linen Shopping Bags

Last week as I was feverishly finishing wedding dresses so I could be gone all day on Friday I had a last minute brain storm.  I think it was about Wednesday night I thought 'wouldn't it be fun to make canvas shopping bags for the four of us to use!'  I was thinking of the cool drop cloth I have laying here begging to be made into something fun.  I told myself I didn't have time and went about my sewing that DID have to be done.  But Thursday morning the idea was still lingering in the fuzzy edges of my brain.  And then.  I remembered the LINEN I had lying there.  Now THAT would be a really cool shopping bag to take to a French Flea!!!

And once an idea is rooted that deeply and it's something I really want to do, and there is a way to make it happen (even last minute) I usually go for it.

I called it 'advertising'!

I toyed with the idea (very briefly) of leaving them unlined.  But a lined bag is SO much nicer and looks so much better.

I didn't have enough of the blue dot fabric so Kara's got lined with cream/black dot fabric with a blue pocket.  Because the pocket was already cut.

The number ribbon was a fun accent.  The tags I made using the Cavallini stamp set I got for Christmas and hadn't used yet.

The bags were a hit!  They loved them:)  And I must say that after carrying mine all day I was rather impressed with the size and shape and handle length. 

Want one?  I could probably be persuaded to make some more.  There would be a price tag on them of course!!