Sorry for the weird photo - I did a screenshot and tried to cut out the parts that would ID the person. I want to make a bag with a top like this, but I’m not sure how it’s constructed. It’s not just a casing with a drawstring, because the outside layer softer than a drawstring bag. If anyone can recommend a pattern for a leather bag with a top like this or can explain it, I would be so grateful.
Recently bought a large leather vintage suitcase and plan to convert the leather into a handbag. I would love to save these brass feet to reuse but don’t know how to get them off without ruining them. If anyone has any advice, I would be very grateful. Second photo is the interior side of the grommet holding the brass foot on.
I left a voicemail for the municipal works department today to let them know our road needed at least caution signs due to some dirt slides and flooding. The very tired but nice woman who returned my call said the head of the department had been there since last night, and that all 200+ dirt roads were a problem. So if you haven’t gotten a response or your road is still impassible, this is why.
Please ignore the painting - I did that this weekend. But I can’t figure out what style this is. It has a cool back zippered pocket. Straps are leather on the shoulders and then nylon strap on the back and are verrrry long. Front pocket is squared on edges and zips at the top with the logo on the front of the pocket. It seems close to a Bex travel bag, but those have an extra strip of leather on the front of the pocket. Doesn’t seem quite like a Cooper. Google Lens said it was a Whitney from the label inside, but it looks nothing like those so think that is not correct. Any ideas from someone who knows more about Michael Kors (I know next to nothing) would be appreciated!
I am getting brave and using some gifted African Wax fabric to make an evening bag. I’ve made tote bags, and I used to sew curtains, my kids clothes, costumes, etc., but this will be the first time I’ve attempted a purse, especially one I’d be ok wearing to an evening event.
I’m aiming for baguette-style with an oversized upper French seam for drawstrings to give it a cute shape with pulled tight. I’ll also add a magnetic snap to make sure it can actually close at the top without a zipper. Not brave enough to attempt a zipper on my first purse.
I’ve added an image of the basic idea I have ( I am NOT an artist), but I’m wondering what you think makes an evening bag useful. Do I bother with an inner pocket or is a smooth interior preferred?
Lastly, what kind of shoulder strap do you like? I’m Lea ing against a chain (noisy and can hurt) but don’t want the strap to look clunky or homemade.
Taken around 5:15 PM on July 28 from the top story of the Sunport park garage.
The original painting that I tried to do is the third photo. I wanted to paint some bad ass ladies in line drawing style. I added rhinestones for the handbags, and for my first attempt at this style, I wasn’t thrilled to death, but I did love the ladies. Then, over the next couple of weeks, I had several people give me feedback that the proportions of their heads were wrong and that it just didn’t look very good. And while I don’t really care whether people like what I paint, I am a learning artist. I have struggled to learn how to paint over the last few years. So I painted over them and changed the rhinestones to be the center of flowers. I think I like it better, but I am sad to see my bad ass ladies go. I will probably try again on a different bag. Would love your feedback on my round two effort if you are so inclined. I normally really enjoy painting over flaws on used bags, but this experience kind of discouraged me.
I normally rehab ruined leather bags, but I have been looking for a new everyday bag that can fit a laptop, and this used Tori Burch will just barely fit it in the middle section. But it has two zippered sections and room for my two phones I always have to carry. It had a few ink stains, so I’ve covered them with some painted ladies with rhinestone bags. I used Angelus acrylic leather paint - black mixed with a touch of gold and matte sealant. Thought I’d share here because I love how it came out and my kids are quite over me sharing my bags with them!
Found these two bags at a thrift store and paid $15 total. Am hopeful the yellow nubuc might be real; it came with a wallet inside. Both came with straps inside the bags. Pretty sure the burgundy is not. It does not have a creed or tag sewn in anywhere.
We got lucky and got a place with a pool, but it needs some maintenance to get it shaped up and ready to use.
If you have a pool, so you use a maintenance service? If so, would you recommend them?
I don’t want a regular service, just someone to come in and do some heavy lifting to get the filter cleaned, the cover cleaned and make sure the pump is working good.
Thought it was a plane crash at first. Never been so happy to find out it was a junkyard on fire again.
Had an 18,000 in ground gunnite heated pool with an automatic cover put in last spring and had absolutely no issues last year. Shock once a week; algae killer once a week. Vacuum every other day and brush once a week. Worked fine.
Builders who put the pool in winterized it for me and opened it for me this spring in early March. Had a severe cold spell so put the heater up to 95 and then forgot it and went on a business trip. Came home to water so hot under the cover it was uncomfortable.
Ever since then I’ve been fighting little white slimy spots and blooms and a slimy film. I shocked it with triple the shock a week ago but once the chlorine came down from 19 it is already getting a slimy film again at 8 ppm.
I went to the pool store and got Clear Aid, which I poured in this morning. I also got soda ash but was told not to use it for 48 hours.
Is the slime most likely algae? I’m so frustrated trying to figure this out and just get the pool back to a calmer state.
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Raining but evaporating in ABQ today. Always bummed when we have virga - we got rain but not any moisture.