Busy busy busy

Hello everyone!!

Well, this is strange. Two posts within a few days! I'm a machine!  So there's lots of exciting new stuff going on in my crazy sweatshop of a living room (minus exploited workers). I have been busy making a few comissioned handbags (can't quite believe it myself) and trying to get thinking about the possibility of a festival and hippy market kind of stall, all whilst spending most of my wages on funky materials and threads and trims! With all this chaos, plus working in the school and private classes, my flat is, as I'm sure you can imagine, a complete pigsty about 95% of the time.  My little worskshop corner of the living room is starting to spill over into every other section of the flat, and my life come to think! Lots of work and organising to be done. UGHHHH! But if I know one thing I know myself, and that means I know that I'm a rather lazy bitch. Let's see how long it is before I can get my ass into gear and this crazy show on the road....

So this first little bag was for a Juan's sister's friend, Agueda. She sent me a few ideas for the type of bag she had in mind. Its safe to say the picture and final product are only similar in shape and size! But hey, you just have to go with the flow. I really enjoyed making this wee bag, it's so colourful and perfect for summer! It took about 2 afternoons to make and then straight to the post office. The Spanish postal system can only be described as dodgey at the best of times so I'm glad it arrived safely.

 

p.s. a big thank you to Agueda for being a great first customer :)


This next bag is one I'm just finishing off for Juan's aunty (this boy is good for business). She and her boyfriend were visiting Madrid this weekend and she asked if I could make her a bag. We sat and looked through all the materials and she chose everything, bar one or two wee details. I'm loving it at the minute despite thinking the colours were a bit dark for this time of year. A cool kinda casual wee bag that would look great with just white T, jeans and trainers (in my opinion).

 This is a wee detachable flower that can be used as a broach or hairclip.

OOOOO-AHHHH! I loveee this next one. I'm making it for myself.  And please dont pass judgement untill I have a picture of the final product as this is only the bare bones. But just to give you an idea it's going to be a peacock clutch bag similar to the purse I made for Nicole but on a bigger scale with amazing silver embroidery and lots of jewell embellishment. I can't wait to get working on this properly and show it off in the summer!

 And last but not least, and stepping away from the needle and thread I made this wee bracelet out of some scrap stuff I didn't know what to do with. Turquoise ribbon, gold chain, turtle charm. Silly and simple... just like me, some might say!

 Anyway Peeps, those are all the updates I have at the moment. I know it's Tuesday and there's alot more week until the weekend so to help ease the pain, I'll leave you with a song....!

 Everything's better when it's sunny  :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fzJ_AYajA