how far can you stretch a metre?

I fell in love with this fabric at the 50% off sale at Fabricville this week. I was only supposed to be buying supplies for my upcoming craft sale, but I couldn't resist (it was 50% off!). I had a little fabric left over, so I made 2 purses and cut out 4 more! I wasn't cheating after all!




Here's a close up of the bags:
And yet another handbag:


This project has been on the table for a while! I started cutting out the stencil last month, but the writing was so tiny and I kept making mistakes, so I shelved it for a while. I got the urge to finish it last night, and it turned out great!

I finished one more project this week, but I can't post it until it has been received by the birthday girl! Happy birthday to The Mom!

Funny story...the power went out at 5:00 today, no big deal, it's pretty bad weather. We got out the candles, ate hummus and pasta salad for dinner and started a game of Scrabble. I kept looking out the window to see if any of the other houses on our road had lights on. Every time I looked, someone was flying a kite at our neighbour Ricky's house. I didn't really think anything of it (windy weather is great for kite flying!) until it started to rain really hard. It didn't click in until the Maritime Electric truck came down the road. They stopped about halfway down the road, just past Ricky's, and got in the little bucket thing to get up to the lines. We couldn't figure out what they were doing. Then we realized the kite was stuck IN the power line! It had stayed up that whole time by itself! Chris was mad that he missed 2 hours of football for a stupid kite. I just felt kind of dumb for thinking someone would stand out there in the pouring rain to fly a stupid kite :)

how bout this new look?

Much easier on the eyes if I say so myself!

gonna sell some bags!

This is quite possibly the most anti-climatic grand opening ever! I've now got 5 bags up for sale in my new Etsy shop, which I'm secretly hoping don't sell because I want to save them for the craft sale I'm doing in November. I suppose I could just not put them up there, but I at least want to have something to show people when I hand them...my new business cards! I got 2 made, one for the handbag shop and one for the home furnishings shop (which is still sadly empty...and, oops, I don't have a copy of it saved on this computer).
So these are the latest bags I have made:

padded tote:

brown cordoroy handbag:

green and paisley handbag:

stencilled khaki knitting tote:

The link to Etsy at the right should be working now, but here it is again anyways:

inahandbag.etsy.com

Somewhere in the middle of all these bags, I've been finding time to knit too! Here is my latest work in progress (that I'm pretty sure won't be done until Christmas at the rate I'm going!):

And these little slippers only took 1 weekend! They are supposed to be a little more mary-jane-ish, but I got a little carried away knitting in the round (which I finally get now!). Now I know for next time!

my craft room rocks!

So, whenever I use the flash on my camera, the colours go all off, but when I don't use it, everything's blurry. So here are the weird colour pictures of my rockin' craft room!

This is the same desk I've always had, but I got that filing cabinet at a yard sale for $10 on my way to the dog park one Saturday. I've always wanted a filing cabinet! Now my papers and bills and stuff aren't in a box in the closet labelled "desk stuff."

I got this desk at Value Village a few years ago, but I repainted it (it was baby blue) and added the new handles.
So organized, finally! I've got two bookshelves!
This is la piece de la resistance. I needed a big cutting table, but I didn't have any room for it, so I was going to get one that stores away, but we really don't have enough storage for that either. Also, this room was meant to be the guest room too, with a murphy bed, but we scrapped that idea. So, I decided to make a murphy table instead! This thing is great! Last weekend during the great fabric destashing (I cut out about 15 bags, soon to be for sale on Etsy!), I had 5 different fabrics all spread out, with handles and clasps all over the place, and I still didn't lose anything! THAT'S how big this table is! (3 feet by 6 feet if you were actually wondering).


So it's done! Now all I have to do is use it!