Pick Love

[Potion_Of_Desire]

Bag Embellished with Guitar Picks.       

I'm generally a Cons and Lee jeans girl (easiest to dance in), but this bag is for going glam...without losing the "rock" factor.





I brought a black bag from Target.  (Couldn't find a clutch made out of material in my dodgy little regional town.)  It had beads all over the front.  I unstitched them.  And I unstitched the bag's lining.  I brought guitar picks (Approx. 130) @ 60cents each (AU $).  I spray painted some California Clears red.  Most guitar picks had holes poked into them with a hot needle.  Others had beads glued into the middle.  I was aiming to disguise most of the holes etc.  Then I stitched and glued the picks onto one side of the bag.  And restitched the lining closed. 
I'm in a band, know so many musos, and go to so many gigs; so I anticipated being genuinely asked for a pick.   So, there is a pocket inside, which I store 3 emergency picks.  (On the Pick Bag's Uni Club debut, I was asked for a pick by a fellow muso...[That was before he saw the pick bag!])     


Pick Bag with Patch Jacket (Back):


And for when I need to look mature and all..
Pick Bag with Red Shoe:

[decibel]

That's rock'n roll glam alright!

Very very cool, and very very unique, plus tres tres inspiring!
I can see a future made pick coin purse/wallet to go with the purse... M-hmm?

You're the X-zibit of "Pimp my Purse", right?!
WOW!

[shooting star]

Ha ha, that's really wierd, I have had the exact same idea in my head for ages but have put off doing it for the same length of time.  Though seeing how well yours turned out has got me thinking about finally doing mine!

[MoonUnit]

I love it!
If I had the time to do it, I definitely would!
Great job!

[Potion_Of_Desire]

Thanks Decibel, Shooting Star, and MoonUnit... 

Its ironic that you mentioned Pimp My Ride, Decibel!    We had a Pimp My Ride Marathon here this week (Without cable, I would only have 5 free-to-air television stations!), and now my Dad is hooked on it!

You should definately pump yours out, Shooting Star..  It'd be cool to see how you envisioned your pick bag to be etc.  Picks are such a good weight for embellishing..  A "scaled" jacket would be cool too.

It was very time consuming, MoonUnit...  I think a lot of my mates thought it'd never get finished! 

This is my first project post, so thanks again for your replies!   

     

[happycrayon]

that is insanely cool!!! i wanna make one really bad! how exactly did you get them on the bag?

[shooting star]

You should definately pump yours out, Shooting Star..  It'd be cool to see how you envisioned your pick bag to be etc.  Picks are such a good weight for embellishing..  A "scaled" jacket would be cool too.

Would you believe me if I said I had envisioned mine exactly the same, bar maybe having slightly less picks ie spacing them out a little more but still covering the whole bag so you see none of the bag and the other difference was that I was envisioning making it out of all differnt colours of picks.  I really like how your picks are all the same colour bar the few red ones, I love red and they just stand out very nicely from the bag to give it that little extra touch.

I think I will now have to try and locate a source for cheap picks now and get cracking, yours really has resparked my idea!!

[Knit_core]

Oh man, that's pretty sweet!

[battersea]

Wow!!!!!!!!  That is an amazing bag.  It looks professional, and I think that is super neat.

[bajangypsy]

wicked cool bag. whats the name of your band? how long did it take u to make the bag? totally original!!