Friday, November 2, 2012

Magazine purse

This is a coin-purse I made out of a Pure Romance catalog.  I had a bunch of old catalogs that were out of date and decided I should try and do something with them and not just throw them in the recycling, and this is what I did with them instead.  This one is big enough for me to put all of my cards and my phone in.  I didn't laminate them because I didn't know how well it would work out anyways.

The next one is a small, flat bottom purse I am working on using scentsy catalogs, and I did laminate these ones.  The result, a very thick durable purse that almost feels like vinyl.  It took me about 5 hours to laminate  about 200 pieces and then about 2 hours to fold them, and then another 2 hours to assemble them and make them into a chain and sew it all together.  Then I found out I needed to do double that and I'm taking a break because my back and fingers are sore from all the folding.  So here it is at the halfway point.
So I haven't sewn on the top row yet but here it is



This is the zipper I'm going to use : )

My stack of paper that I need to laminate and fold


I'll post again when I am done, right now I am trying to decide if I want to make handles out of chains or if I should just go to the craft store and buy some and glue them on.  Any ideas?

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