My "new" sewing table

I've had this inexpensive sewing table for years long before I started selling purses. The type that you assemble and sometimes if you are unlucky the holes don't match or some parts are cracked. I have been putting off fixing it. The fronts had come off  because the glue was not strong enough and the constant handling  had taken its toll. Finally the drawers just fell apart a few days ago and spilled all my junk in there. So I just nailed them in place and some cracked and I am not the best carpenter! My poor table stood out like a sore thumb and it made me cringe every time I looked at it. So in between filling out orders I managed to cover the front with some of my favorite fabrics.

It didn't take long actually. I just glued the fabrics on the front and a little on the sides and voila! Next on the agenda---my cutting table which now looks like a hurricane just hit it!

New Year-- - -New Everything

Hello everyone. I hope you found me here.  I wanted something new this year and for awhile I couldn't for the life of me think of a name for my shop. I scribbled endlessly of possible names (just like I did when I knew I was having a little girl). Inspiration hit me when I least expected it--in the middle of the night.. I knew I wanted  "Posh" and I have seen a lot of craft sites with "Sew" so it was just a matter of adding Designs, Bags or Shop.  I was lucky all domain names were available.

For the website templates I spent lots and lots of surf time on the net. I was planning on something simple with just a jolt of color but when I saw The Nifty Shop's Pink Mendocino I fell in love at first sight!! Kinda preppy but not too cutesy. I love the oval logo too. It is very seldom that you see all the add ons that come with it--it kinda made decide right on the bat.  Bobbie the owner has been such a darling and a breeze to work with.  These are some runners up:

Nature's Blush--Kinda similar to my old one but lovely nonetheless
Bloomin' Retro--Love the pink, green and brown combo
Sugar Sweet Cherry--Just the name alone will get you
Eco Green--Love the strategically placed leaves
Mocking Bird Lane--Cute!!That's all I can say
Whimsy--Geared more towards a baby boutique but cute as a bug and besides I can't afford it!
Delicate-- Love the blue damask
Contemporary Floral--Those flowers are just lovely
Until next time. Have a great day.

New Yummy Fabrics

I am on cloud nine right now. I got some new awesome fabrics and I can't wait to share them with you.  These are just SOME of them!! I have to think of names.  Hmmm.

 

These are good enough to eat!  I already made a bag out of the lime print.

Chocolate goodness. Can't go wrong with these ones. I especially like the top one. I wonder what will I name these sweeties. I have actually made a bag out of the paisley print.

Bright retro florals--they pop up everywhere. The top one I have decided to call it deja vu, the bottom one cherry blossoms.

So girly and preppy. Bubblegum pink, peach and lime combo. Top is pink lotus then the paisley is called sugar baby (yeah) but haven't thought of names for the two bottom ones.

Love this color combo--brown and spa blue. I am just lovin' all of them. 

Took me forever to do this post. I had trouble centering the images then I realized just get out of the edit html page and just do all the posting via the compose page which has all the icons at the top to do all the editing just like my website. Duh!

Have an awesome Monday everyone.

To zip or not to zip

It's just so lovely today--high 70s. I am 10 minutes away from the beach --maybe one of these days I can swing by there! Not today though I have some sewing to do.
Ever since I started making purses I had a lot of requests for zipper closure but I couldn't quite figure out how to do it. I mean a recessed zipper closure where the zipper is a couple of inches down not at the very top like my wristlets. The reason I like the recessed is it retains the purse's shape and it doesn't look funny at the top.
A year or so I go I had a request from a friend for a zippered closure tote. It took me forever to figure it out  but unfortunately I didn't make any notes! Fast forward a few months back I was back to square one. There are a lot of tutorials online but it is not what I wanted. To cut the story short I finally figured out and confident enough to add it as a closure option on the site. Yeah baby!Here are some custom ones that I made:

For my niece Kristen who loves animals and hearts.

For my sister-law's mom. I was surprised she likes zebra prints. I do.

 

 

These are custom orders.

 

The stripes one is for my mom and the other one is for me.

 

Close up view.

Have a nice weekend everyone.