Retro Roller Derby Messenger Bag

Roller Derby girls love this new print! I am pleased to carry it in a heavier weight allowing me to offer it in my messenger bag styles. You can find a Zelda Messenger Bag in the shop by clicking here, but I am happy to make other styles as well.

Happy New Year!

I am back to work today, rested and ready to jump back in! I hope you had a wonderful holiday with your family and friends.

My plan, for this year, is to work on offering a larger inventory of ready made products.  I am going to begin by working on Kipster Knitting Bags, Wallets on Strings and the padded cases for iPads and netbooks. All very popular products.

As a one person business it is a challenge to keep a full inventory while also working on custom orders, shipping, taking photographs, adding items to my shops, answering inquiries and also working to promote my products, via newsletters, Facebook and this blog. Not to mention looking for new fabrics, doing all the bookkeeping and ordering all the other supplies I use!

This year I am hoping that all my promotion has paid off and I can back off a little in that area and concentrate on the actual sewing of products. This means you might see fewer blog posts, but if you stop by the shop you will find more in stock items ready to buy. This has been my intention all along, but a shop full of products and no customers isn't very useful LOL!

I thank you for all your support and hope you will find browsing the shops even more fun that before


Karen

Over and out till next year!

I am working hard to finish all your custom orders this week. I am hopeful that I will be able to stop work on Thursday, and not return until Jan 3rd.
This has been an incredible year for me and I have all my wonderful customers to thank for that. So many of you come back time and time again, and I am so grateful.
You are so kind and complementary, and it is a pleasure to work with you on your dream bags, or perfect gifts for your family and friends.
On Christmas Day, I think of how many people are opening up presents that were custom made for them, by me. It's a great feeling!
Thanks to everyone and have a wonderful holiday.
See you in 2011!

Karen

Martha and her mom's Panther Deluxe in Santa Fe

Martha, borrowing her mom's Panther Deluxe, poses in the street that leads to the St. Francis Cathedral in Santa Fe.

Custom Santa Claus Honeysuckle Tote for Mrs. Santa, really

I was asked to take this panel of Santa and create a tote for a customer, who told me she was Mrs. Santa.

She wanted a zippered pocket on the back, but otherwise told me to make it my way! This is what I did

A few new fabrics: peace signs, sock monkey, horses, Japanese, pink poodles, Kanji Ninja

 I continue to get new prints in stock, but don't always have time to share them with you. 
If you love one, or more, let me know and we will make your dream bag! Contact me here
See all the fabrics available for your bags here
 
Here are some recent additions


Groovy Love and Peace



 Oodles of Poodles






 Sock monkey on pogo stick pale blue




 
Peace Daisies pink


Kanji Ninja-Another creative fabric from Alexander Henry. I love this one!



Simply Horses



Heron Garden

Tiina and her custom made purse, The Tootsie

 



 


 

Many thanks to Tiina for sending this great photograph, of herself and her Tootsie, with matching Slim zip bag. 
Last year she ordered a Morphin bag with a few flaps.  She waited until Christmas Day, before opening the package! What a strong woman! LOL!

Her kind comments this year


"Hi Karen,

I got my purse!!!!!  It's so beautiful!  The fabric is even better in person. The Tootsie is the perfect size.  All my coworkers are jealous ;)  There was NO waiting til Xmas for this one!I Promise to take pictures and send them soon!"
Tiina
Nov 16 2010

Alexander Henry's Inked Tattooed Women Lynx Deluxe Messenger Bag

One of  my all time favorite fabrics. The colors and artwork are incredible. I made this bag, and it was claimed, by a newsletter subscriber instantly. I was set up to do a blog post, so I thought I'd share it anyway. I have plenty more of this print and would be happy to do a custom order for you. I plan on making other bags with it in the future, as well. As you can see, it's a larger scale print, but it works really well on the larger messengers and the Tallullah and Tootsie purses. It would also be great on a Tilly shoulder bag.  I think it would be very effective on the Boc, my padded case for an iPad .

Looking for a peace sign messenger bag? I have 3 new prints in stock!

Peace continues to be popular. I have these three new fabrics in stock, ready to become messenger bags, or perhaps laptop cases for you.

You can see all the prints, and peace sign products, in my shop, by clicking here!






Pastel Peace Signs




Faux Tie Die Peace Signs Dark





Faux tie die Peace Signs light

Padded case for a Nintendo DS and Nintendo DS Lite-The Gamer

This is always a nice gift for the gamers in your life. I've been working on building the inventory over the last month. Now there plenty to pick from. You can find them in my shop here
The great thing about them is there are 6 small pockets inside for your game cards. The case is padded to protect the contents too