Purse

I've been carrying a super cute silver vintage handbag lately but the silver started flaking off so it was time for a new bag and time to finish a project that had been relegated to the back of the fabric pile.

I used fabric that can be seen here and here:

I used the scraps from those two projects to make this:


You can see that it is pieced together from scraps but in an awesome way, it looks great!

 I used vintage handles from my grandmother's stash.  I even lined it and put little pockets for my phone and wallet.

I like the way it turned out and it is nice when nothing goes to waste.

I feel like a slacker for not posting for so long.  It is not because I have not been busy!  Right now I am making a custom dress for a friend and working on turning a skirt my grandmother gave me into a dress.  I am thinking about doing something like this:

The skirt fabric is sheer but a similar print to the one above.  I just so happen to have some navy lining. . .  Maybe it was meant to be.

Baby Wipe/ Diaper Case

My cousin is having a baby boy.  I wanted to make her a few things that she might actually be able to use. I made her a wipe/diaper case, I got the pattern here.  The outside is an Anna Maria Horner velveteen and the lining is one of my grandfather's old handkerchiefs (I washed it, I promise).



Front Open



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I am also making her a baby romper like the toddler romper I make for Niko and some baby booties.  I'll post those later.

Raggedy Andy

I made a Raggedy Andy for my nephews birthday. 

I will never make a Ragged Andy again in my life.  It took Forever!  I think I broke a tooth when, out of pathetic desperation, I started biting the needle to get the yarn through the canvas to make that red hair. 

I hope Niko likes it.  I made him a vintage fabric Raggedy Ann and Andy quilt when he was a baby. So this doll is a matching throw pillow.

Naked

I hope the doll doesn't scare my nephew, I didn't know it would be so big.

Memory Lane Day

I just parted with these old couches.  When Bryant and I first got married, we turned to Craigslist to solve our lack of furniture woes.  I don't have a picture of the couches in their original early 90's hideousness but lets just say they may or may not have seen better days, my guess is that they were even ugly in their youth.  My solution was to cover Everything.  The slip coveres were store bought, I had to alter the one on the smaller chair.  The pillows are all made by me,  I was able to recycle the stuffing and the zippers.  The brown ones are a chocolate microsuede.  The other big ones are grassclothish, mostly a tan color but have some green threads.  I also made some throw pillows, beacause I am obessed with patterns.  I can't say that I was terribly sad to part with these couches but I think my pillows and covers helped me to not throw up in my mouth everytime I entered my living room. 

The office is finished!

My incredibly useful husband finished the office about a week ago.  I think it looks incredible.  I don't have a future in home photography but here are some pics of the finished office:

The office from the outside

Bryant and Scott ran the electrical.  He also somehow hooked up the Internet cable from outside and patched up the siding

My job is to scrape the paint off the glass.  Its really boring so I do like one pane at a time.  6 down, 24 left to go.  Bryant free handed the drywall on the corners because they don't make corner pieces at that angle.  It looks really good

More free handed drywall

More on the office

Here are some more pictures of the office being built.  Again I should say that this project is entirely Bryant's, with the help of a few good friends (thanks wes and scott and the best neighbors ever).  Drywall is up and mudded.  Now he just has to paint, prime, rip out carpet, put in new floors, frame out the doors and put down the base boards.  No biggie.

Can't wait to move in

the doors!

Check out our new wall!

LT says hello.