My first Purse

 Here it is, just one of the things I have attempted this winter, this was a learning project for me.  I needed a gift for a friend who went above and beyond to help me this winter, and i knew she wanted a funky one of a kind purse.  I told her the catch was she had to be TOTALLY HONEST so I would know what to improve on. 
It is suposed to close with a magnet-that didn't work, and it needs to be a little deeper,  Thre is a pocket on the front that is covered with a flower and lots of buttons.  I LOVE BUTTONS.  The bag was made with upholstery samples which were given to me by a friend several years ago.  I am currently working on another project with them.

So I decided agains the craft blog for a while.  NOT agains crafts, I have been making TONS of stuff, but I haven't had time, and now i think I might need the therapy.  so bring on some uplifting comments PLEASE.:)

Have you seen some fun and FUNKY purses on the NET?  where I love more ideas.

New school bag and Beached T's

McKinley was really wanting a Messenger style bag for school, I kept finding her looking through the house for different bags to use. There was nothing wrong with her perfectly nice backpack that I paid $59.00 for. (and then got a $59.00 rebate for)

hmmm, I have been seeing some cute bags out there on the craft blogs, maybe I can try something new... I have lots of Denim, which is mice and heavy, so... I wanted to make the pockets of the jeans as functional as possible.
I sewed a strip of denim to the inside lining to make 3 pockets.

and sewed the front so that the pockets would be useful, I wanted to take out the button and zipper part, I thought it would look less like a pair of jeans, but it didn't really matter. I am still glad I did, I sewed it with the seams out, and clipped them so that they could fray in a cool way. She is in heaven. And the flap that closes it is just some owl fabric with a lining in it.

Here are some almost one of a kind shirts I made for Westin and Rawlin, all it took was bleach.

For this one I layed a garbage bag inside to keep it from bleeding through. Then I poured the bleach on with a baster, and only let it sit for about 20 minutes. It turned this bluish color in spot. I like it, but Westin LOVES it.

For this one I used a bleach pen. You find them in the laundry isle made by Chlorox, it sat for about 30 minutes. I have gooten a lot of compliments on it.

Both of these plain T's can be found at Walmart for only $3.

I got the ideas from Aly&Ash, You must check hers out they REALLY look AWESOME not homemade at all!

I am Momma hear me ROAR, made some too, she has a great tutorial for using the bleach pen. You need to take a look at her freezer paper stenciled shirts too. They are crazy good!