New Favorites In: Vintage, Print, and Leather

What I've been doing lately. Well.....

I scored loads of vintage finds last weekend. I'm in "awe" of this vintage leather suitcase with travel stickers

In the print shop. I'm having so much fun sketching up tee shirt designs. I just finished this one today and already printed up a few tee's and added them to the shop.

And as for the leather. I've been making quite a few belts and dog collars for people I know lately. All suporting my dog's surgury fund. Here is a custom "Luna" belt I just finished up. Thanks to my friend Dane for the awesome idea!

hope you like!

Pet Nicknames

I don't know about you, but my pets always seem to have about 10 zillion nicknames. They start out with one or two cute ones, then over the course of a few years these names evolve into these wacky exaggerated names that I don't even remember how or why we even started calling them that!

 I recently made a new collar for my pooch, and decided to add all his nicknames along side his actual name in the middle.

My sister saw this collar, and really liked the nickname idea too (she's also a nut with nicknames). So I decided to make her doggy a collar too!

These were so much fun to make! And the doggies look super cool wearing them.

Maybe I should make my chickens collars too???

Just kidding... =)

knife sheath

Well, hello there! So as my last blog post suggested I was going to change the look of my vintage shop a bit (stone wall background in my photos???). Well... being the Gemini that I am, I changed my mind =). Now I'm feeling out the red suitcase background ...any feedback? (click on my vintage shop link to your right).

Other than that I've been doing a little leather work lately and it feels good. After the holiday rush I focused so much on my vintage shop that the leather stuff went on the back burner. I'm making this leather sheath right now for a customer and I wanted to share the process with you.

The first photo is obviously the raw leather before I stained and assembled the sheath. I wanted to show that photo because I get asked a lot how the leather looks before I paint/stain it. This is a custom piece that I'm about 90% done with now. I just have to finish stitching up the outer edges with the thread and needle shown, wah-lah! All done.

Now that I'm back in the groove with my leather work again, I really want to make a few purses to sell in my shop. It's been a while since I've made a purse, (mostly because they are time consuming projects) but I have some cool ideas that are NEEDING to take form. So, I'll keep you posted.

Happy Wednesday,

-Becky