The Ash-bag…A pretty purse for a pretty wonderful friend

Me: Honey, what name should I give Ashley’s purse?
Andy: The ass-bag. WAIT, no I meant The Ash-bag. Or how about Bag of Ashes.
Me: (snort hahaha) Ohhh Never mind…you’re totally making this harder than it has to be.
Andy: That’s what she said.
(yep, that's my husband for ya...typical Office fanatic...)

 

 

I LOVE the girly fabrics. I’ll be sad when I run out of them.

The pattern was a total experiment that I whipped up. I wanted to make a purse for my friend Ashley for her 30th birthday. It had to be unique, practical & CUTE. So, I was fiddling around with shapes & ideas of how I wanted the strap to go & THIS is what I came up with!!

 

It took about 5 hours over a couple days. It totally shouldn’t have…My machine gave me some trouble…some child induced trouble.  Plus there were some re-runs of the The Office on TV the night I was cutting the fabric out so that was a little distracting.

After I was finally done it sat for a couple weeks…because I wanted to add something extra special to put inside it (see here what it was!) But since this was a gift, you’d think I’d work faster! I’m happy to report that my friend LOVES the bag & told me that I hit a grand slam LOVE HER!

What do you think of the Ash-bag?

Has anyone ever hand-made you a gift before?

 I want to hear about it!

I'm linking this beauty up at my favorite parties! Check them out here!