I made this purse last year and I remember how yummy the fabric looked when I first bought it.
http://www.etsy.com/transaction/60644631
I have enough to make one more bag, and I think I'm going to use this design...it's not too big, not too small.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/93949377/green-tie-dye-bag-st-patricks-day-mint
Of course, I also love the little gold lining in this fabric, bling, bling!
I'm 50, feisty and love that bling.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Tell Me Why When You're so Blue
SKY
Tell me why when you're so blue,
You're most tranquil (In a good mood)?
Like blue ink spilled you're smooth and wet.
Your enormity scares me,
Comforts me,
Spares me,
From emcompassing doom
When in grey gloom you sometimes cry.
I wrote that poem when I was about 17 for a writing class. I remember I was outside on a spring day...feeling the vastness of the sky, the air was a little cool (it was a Florida day in the morning) and birds were active all around me.
It's not spring yet, but people are anxious for it. Here's a few treasuries with spring time blue in them (and my Sea Wolf bag).
Sometimes I feel blue...
by Mariam-Kankou from Kankou
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/Nzk1MjM0OHwyMzU5MDYyNTI1/sometimes-i-feel-blue?index=0
For that wedding by the sea....
by FlowDesigns from FlowDesigns
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTUyOTI0MnwyMzIyNzI3MzI2/for-that-wedding-by-the-sea?index=6
Retro touch
by Milleta from milleta
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTI3NjQwOTd8MjMxNDMyNTc3Ng/retro-touch?index=5
Let it be a normal day!!
by valeria from valeriatelier
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/ODUwMTI3NHwyMjg3NDIzMjMx/let-it-be-a-normal-day?index=9
Tell me why when you're so blue,
You're most tranquil (In a good mood)?
Like blue ink spilled you're smooth and wet.
Your enormity scares me,
Comforts me,
Spares me,
From emcompassing doom
When in grey gloom you sometimes cry.
I wrote that poem when I was about 17 for a writing class. I remember I was outside on a spring day...feeling the vastness of the sky, the air was a little cool (it was a Florida day in the morning) and birds were active all around me.
It's not spring yet, but people are anxious for it. Here's a few treasuries with spring time blue in them (and my Sea Wolf bag).
Sometimes I feel blue...
by Mariam-Kankou from Kankou
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/Nzk1MjM0OHwyMzU5MDYyNTI1/sometimes-i-feel-blue?index=0
For that wedding by the sea....
by FlowDesigns from FlowDesigns
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTUyOTI0MnwyMzIyNzI3MzI2/for-that-wedding-by-the-sea?index=6
Retro touch
by Milleta from milleta
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTI3NjQwOTd8MjMxNDMyNTc3Ng/retro-touch?index=5
Let it be a normal day!!
by valeria from valeriatelier
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/ODUwMTI3NHwyMjg3NDIzMjMx/let-it-be-a-normal-day?index=9
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Grandma's Buttons
I was just going through my many buttons, all shapes, sizes and colors.
My favorite buttons, by far, is from the jar of buttons my grandma gave me from her attic in Traverse City, Michigan.
They are stored in old mason jar. But what's really cool is that the women back in her time saved EVERYTHING. So, amongst the buttons are hooks and eyes, bra clasps, needles, small thread spools...and I love the military buttons and badges. Who wore them? Were they from a child killed during the war? From a sweetheart that never came back?
This is a bag I made with one of my grandma's buttons.
I found a small article in one of my button stashes once. There was a carefully folder article from 1960 about a woman becoming the first police officer in that area. The judge, after he swore her in, told her to "keep her powder dry".
My favorite buttons, by far, is from the jar of buttons my grandma gave me from her attic in Traverse City, Michigan.
They are stored in old mason jar. But what's really cool is that the women back in her time saved EVERYTHING. So, amongst the buttons are hooks and eyes, bra clasps, needles, small thread spools...and I love the military buttons and badges. Who wore them? Were they from a child killed during the war? From a sweetheart that never came back?
This is a bag I made with one of my grandma's buttons.
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I found a small article in one of my button stashes once. There was a carefully folder article from 1960 about a woman becoming the first police officer in that area. The judge, after he swore her in, told her to "keep her powder dry".
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