My Mary Poppins Bag...kawaii style

I have to give a shout out to Toni from TT Totes.  Before I entered my adventure into sewing, I was totally in need of a new bag.  My Dooney is like 5 years old and has seen better days.  I love bags but I have a tendency to never change my daily bag for fear of loosing stuff.  I use to change bags to coordinate with my outfits but then I would leave some of the things in another bag and blah blah.  So I just have one bag I use on the daily, all my stuff all in one place..done.

So I contacted Toni about a month ago when I finally decided on the "type" of bag I wanted.  I inquired about using different fabrics and she was super excited.  She literally recieved the last piece of fabric YESTERDAY (I had chosen the outside fabric for the bag from an Etsy shop in Taiwan so it took a while to get to the states).  She just informed me that my bag was complete. 

I friggin love this bag!  I can't wait to touch it!

Thanks Toni!!! 

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My Fondness of Fabrics

Who would of thought that I'd love browsing fabrics as much as I love shopping for clothes which I guess are completed works of fabrics. But shopping for that makes much more sense than just wanting to own random yards of fabrics. I've found that I'm on either ends of the spectrum of fabrics. I either look for the strangest fabric patterns or the most dull patterns with some texture, like solid colors. Florals aren't really my forte unless there's something different about them. I love everything Alexander Henry. He's like my Tim Burton of fabrics. Everything he puts out, I know I'm going to love.

I also have a fondness of japanese fabrics. I especially love the translations and whatever phrase they are trying to say comes out a little like "wtf?", lol.

A backpack in the making...

So my nephew's birthday is coming up and I figured why not make him a little bag. He'll be one. We got my son's first backpack when he was about one so he could start carrying his own crap plus lugging around my diaper bag was getting over rated and heavy! So now he has this little back pack that he stuffs with diapers, wipes, toys, and fruit snacks.

But anyways, back to my project. So I googled toddler backpack sewing patterns and found this awesome one at "That Crafty Mrs. V" blog. I'd like to add a pocket to the front. I 'll have to think about that for bit because I tried to add pockets to my first bag and I ended up with things that looked like oven mitts. They were not included in my bag, but now my son has more things to shove his hand in.

So as I was looking for fabrics for this cute little back pack, I started
thinking, I can't just make my nephew a bag, my son has to have one too and so does my best friend's unborn baby! So now I have 3 bags to make.

I love kawaii fabrics so I went straight to Etsy and searched in their Supplies section and I found the coolest print for these bags. I might do each bag a little different, like one will be just the kawaii fabric, and then maybe I'll throw in some plain color fabric for the other bags to break up the pattern. I don't want to push my love for kawaii on people who think its weird. The fabric also comes in different colors too so that's something else to ponder.

Oh yeah and crazy neurotic me, I just placed my order for my own labels, like I'm a popular brand or something....whatever...whoo hooo! Kei Vahns is now official.