Sling purse for "K"

Just posting a quick preview for my mom's friend "K" ;). I hope you guys enjoy your time together!!!
xoxo-
holly

I finally added a shopping page!

I am slowly moving away from custom work for a variety of reasons but the main one being that I can't stay up until 2am anymore and ignore my husband and kids while I sew like a maniac ;). I will still make lots of items and take custom order dresses. I will slowly start building and tweaking my shopping page- I added 3 items tonight and you pay through paypal. Always feel free to email me with any questions! Here are the items that I added.....

The Mary Sling, exclusively for Blossom and Poppy

Ok- this is my fine tuned, poured it all into this one design. The outside has two large pockets (where the dips are) and then a panel of front smaller pockets for a crazy amount of functionality! The inside is also lined with pockets and is still thin enough to not feel too bulky. It closes with a snap to ensure all of your items stay nice and snug but is not cumbersome to open.

I really love a curvy shaped purse but it can be tricky to make it the most user friendly. I really feel like this one hits it all! I will also make this bag often with a sling strap but this particular one has classic straps with two handles.

xo-

holly

Preview for S

This is yet another Yvette New York Sling that I'm in love with!

I get so many different streams of business- many of my orders are from friends of friends, clients that post their purse on Facebook is also a great source of exposure for me but the ones that always touch me (and still surprise me) are calls or emails from people who saw someone in a store or in their daily lives that was wearing a purse that I made so they stop the person and track down my information. I cannot put into words how humbling that is for me!

This is the case with "S" who saw another Yvette sling on my girlfriend Jen A. and called me to order one. It was really fun to come up with fabric combinations for "S" because she has an adventurous color side but also really wanted her purse to be an everyday bag that she can take to work and works with everything. I am a color JUNKIE but this black and white combination struck me when I put it together and really made me take a second look at making some more monochromatic work in the future. The home dec fabric is heavily textured and is so sturdy but super soft- I just love it!

"S", thank you so much! Hope you enjoy it!!

xo-

holly

Preview for "J"!! and gushing about Rainbow's End Quilt Shoppe

Forgive me for these dark photos- the sky has been grey here all day!

The Yvette New York sling is hot, hot, hot for me right now! I'm super in love with this one- made for "J" who I found out happens to live right next to the owners of my FAVORITE fabric store, Rainbow's End in Dunedin! They just launched a new, stunningly gorgeous website and you can even order online now (http://rainbowsendquiltshoppe.com/). As beautiful as the website is- there is nothing for fabric addicts like walking through their store......so, so pretty, well placed and organized but still totally appealing to creative people who need all of the aesthetic bells and whistles and huge punch of color to get us inspired. I could blog about Rainbows End for a long time- it's amazing! I told "J" that my hubby takes the debit card from me when I visit because once I walk through those doors....I'm done. Please open a store in Tampa Rainbow's End owners!! I promise I will spend my kids college fund in there each month!!

I just got this sling out in the mail to "J" this afternoon (hopefully no one I knew spotted me in the post office because I was not happy with how my kids were behaving ;)) but I wanted to post a preview for her. She has been a great client and was adorable as she decided what fabric to go with. She is getting ready to go on a vacation soon and I hope this sling carries everything for her nicely.

Remember that the sling has a front panel of pockets and a little hidden cell phone pocket inside one of them. You can see all of the specs on the Yvette New York sling post.

Hope you love it "J"!!

Yvette New York Slings are $55

The Sharon shoulder bag

Sharon is a really special lady who attends the same bible study that I go to. She has a very comforting vibe and I always enjoy being around her. She was in my "group" when I first got pregnant with my youngest (16 months old now- mmmmmm, turning into a toddler no longer a baby.....it goes by too fast). I got pregnant just a few weeks after the year started.

I went from feeling great one day and then about 4 days after I got pregnant I plummeted fast into throw up hell (forgive me for my language but there is no other way to describe it). I still pulled myself off of my floor every Thursday to get to bible study- no doubt more for my children than for me because their children's program rocks (!!) and I had a hard time staying focused since I only wanted to puke the entire time. I went on medicine.....it made me sleepy and I did keep food down but it didn't touch the nausea. I'm telling you all of this because I was a MESS at bible study. If you met me that year, I probably didn't seem like that cool of a person.....boring, miserable, complaining, I have asthma and was wheezing all of the time, falling asleep during the lecture because I was so drugged up on top of being pregnant- pretty much a loser. But Sharon didn't care! She always asked me how I was. Always smiled at me and made me feel good. I could tell she didn't judge me in the slightest even though I was totally not myself......and my heart will be soft for Sharon forever because of that!

I was thrilled when she asked me to make a purse for her and more thrilled when she picked out these great, lively fabrics.

The Sharon shoulder bag is an average size, not bulky but not small. It is very sturdy and closes with a zipper. The reason that I'm so in love with it is because you can mix fabrics like crazy on it to make something really unique!!

Super, super cute- just like Sharon!!

xo,

Holly

Sharon shoulder bag is $52

The Yvette New York sling

Ok- so I have been an awful blogger lately.....I was adding it up and I think I've made close to 40 items since I blogged last. I was already behind on my posts so now I'll be lucky to get a quarter of them up ;)!!

Yvette ( http://yvette-unedited.blogspot.com/) is one of those people that has a plethora of ideas. I remember the first time I heard of Yvette was when Autumn (http://mommyista.blogspot.com/) was out to lunch with her and Yvette had an awesome idea about camera bags (will post about those next) so Autumn texted me about it. I thought it was fantastic and from then on the good advice has kept coming and I cannot get enough of it!! So this is "our" newest creation and I was so excited about it when it was done that I couldn't wait to get her reaction.

Yvette is up with her children and husband in New York for a month and she wanted a bag that would fit her trip perfectly. She wanted a Summer sling but wanted outside pockets so when she was on the subway she could reach for things easily. She also needed it to snap close. These sound like super easy requests but on the Sling both of them took some figuring out. I didn't want to lose the integrity of the slings gorgeous shape so I basically mimicked the front panel (pleats included) and made two spacious outside pockets on the front. The only problem was that the pockets were pretty large and I was worried she would lose her phone in such a big pocket. My solution was to make a little, hidden cell phone pocket inside the outside pocket (tongue twister). See the picture of the inside where the little grey pocket is peeking out.

The inside of the bag is also lined with pockets for Yvette's needs. Please remember that when I make a custom item I LOVE to make pockets that fit your "stuff" perfectly! As far as the snap, it was easy peasy- I just had to make another pleat in the band and I love how it turned out.

If I ever have time to make something for myself THIS is what I am making next. Seriously love, love, love it.

Yvette- as always, thank you for being so terrific! I miss you up in NY! xoxo

The Yvette New York sling is $55.

More Natasha orders.....I told you she was addicted :)

These are more Slings that were ordered for gifts that I somewhat recently finished. I'm LOVING the bright yellow and hot pink fabric from my favorite designer- Anna Maria Horner.

Slings are $45

My Summer Sling for "A"...

How I know "A" is like the Kevin Bacon game- she knows friends of mine from 2 different parts of my life and she is also in the INCREDIBLE interfaith bible study that I go to.....or maybe that is just living in New Tampa- don't we all know a friend of a friend who ends up knowing you? Such a small circle out here. I always think of that when I yell at my kids in public- surely SOMEONE who knows me is within earshot and I'll be sticking my foot in my mouth soon enough.

Anyways- "A" has twins so she does need a decent size bag I'm sure. This Summer Sling is just the normal Sling but modified originally for my sweet friend Summer. The "basket" of the sling is simply smaller so you get all the style and ease of the Sling without such a giant space to fill up. It is still very roomy though! The inside space is pretty flexible- for "A" we added an inside zippered pocket on one side and another set of open pockets on the other.

Thank you "A"!! and thank you Summer for being my source of inspiration!! xoxo!

Slings are $45

Sewing doesn't get any more fun than this!! item #3

So here it is- the hardest (not technically but aesthetically) bag that I have made yet. I am not kidding when I tell you that I spent hours and hours and hours scouring stores and fabric websites to find fabric that would work for this bag. "A.M." asked me to make a bag in Gator colors (for you non-football loving fans that is the Florida Gators- University of Florida) as a pun for her sister in law's love of the Gators. I giggled when she made the request and then I drew a HUGE blank as to how I was going to make it cute. Finding wonderful fabric in these colors is NOT easy. I finally found inspiration and after consulting "A.M." we decided on these fabrics and can I say GORGEOUS???? I am dying to see how her sister in law reacts when she gets it.

SUCH a hysterical and creative idea "A.M.". I can't beleive that we pulled it off looking so cute. Let me know if she likes it!!

My slings are $45

Sewing doesn't get any more fun than this!! item #1

My friend "A.M." (who is a brilliant jewelry designer and amazing juggler of time!!) has been ordering gifts from me for her friends and family. I love that she gets excited about what each of them might like and her requests are fine tuned for them alone!

This particular sling though is just for "A.M." and she let me decide which coordinating fabrics would fit her best. She is really creative and her style is a touch edgy, she's adorable.

Although I'm excited to see if she likes it- I am a little bummed that I have to part with it because it's look really cute with my new jeans!!

xoxo A.M.

The sling is $45