SO...I found and fell in love with this bag...

http://www.buckle.com/product/product_detail.jsp?bmUID=1258061597590&prd=20547D42269&sku=1040670000&Nao=48&N=43+1712

Thinking I could do it not only better but cheaper as well I decided to make it instead. In the end I ended up spending pretty much the same that I could have paid for it, but I love how it turned out. 

Front...ignore the pizza box 


Front again...with strap


Inside...the most awesome purple shiny calico fabric ever!...I may just have to go back and buy the rest of the bolt


and back...kinda blurry sorry



I had originally wanted to use pleather/vinyl for the back and straps like the original but the I found the stretchy/shiny vinyl-esque in the Halloween fabric clearance and used that instead. I couldn't get a good pic of me wearing it but the strap is kinda long and I may end up shortening it. Overall though I love it! 

received an awesome lake themed package from puffy yesterday and am finally getting around to posting pics...so here they are!
 
the bag ... the inside is a flannel shark print but i love the water detail on the outside


nature notebook and some handmade paper and lake themed postcards


make up bag with a few extras


picture frame...my other destination was las vegas


mini first aid kit


i loved everything and will be sure to get some use out of everything this summer...i had an excellent first swap and cant wait to hopefully do some more...thanks again puffy!!!

my wal-mart recently revamped their beading selection...i fell in love with the purple star pendant and the green bamboo pendant so I went out yesterday and made these

purple stars


bamboo


close up


I got this sparrow a couple months ago at jo-anns...pretty simple, i just put it on the chain added a closure and tada!

so...I'm a big fan of stories so here's a little background for your reading pleasure   ... Ever since elementary school I've HATED Apple computers with a passion. I swore I would never get one if my life depended on it. This was before my Dell started repeatedly crashing about a month ago. Against my better judgement I went to Apple's website to merely LOOK and compare...suffice to say I kind of fell in love   My shiny new Macbook arrived yesterday and I decided today that it needed a bad ass carrying case. I originally planned on having a fairly plain or geometric type pattern for the outside with a lining fabric with apples on it (Apple...apples get it? haha... lame, I know) but then I saw this awesome skull fabric and a red and black damask-y like fabric and changed my mind. I didn't use a pattern, I just kind of eyeballed it and went for it. I put some fleece interfacing in between layers to give it a little extra padding. It's a little big and roomy but I love how it turned out...and I have enough leftover material for a matching iPod case! yay! Anyway...picture time!