Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 10:26PM Looks like I missed a Front Page treasury featuring my little nautical coffee sleeve. Thank you, Etsy!
And how awesome is this craft cult widget? Love it.
Etsy, coffee sleeve, front page, nautical in Coffee Sleeves, Doe and Mouse Monday, August 18, 2008 at 12:01PM Well, here it is. My concerns were alleviated when I saw the finished product. I'm really enjoying the red stripes.
It really turned out to be quite big. Great for lots of beach towels. Plus it's not too thick, so you can fold it up and carry it around in your purse if you want. And my boss liked it, so that's great, too. Yay! Now my direct boss wants one, too.
Friday, August 15, 2008 at 11:37AM Hmmm. I was going to post about how I went to Mood Fabrics this week (made famous by Project Runway), but now it doesn't seem so important.
Basically, I was asked to make a tote bag for my boss. She wants it to have nautical colors and is able to hold four beach towels for her family. I gave her a variety of color themes and she was fine with all of them and left it up to me. I found the following fabrics at mood...
The red and white stripe canvas would be the outside and the navy polka dot on white would be the lining. I haven't picked the handle webbing yet, but it could be navy, yellow, off white. Now, I picked the red and white canvas because they didn't have any of the other colors I would liked, such as teal, yellow, blue, etc. So this whole thing could have gone in a totally different direction.
The problem is: does it look like a flag now? Is it too patriotic? I actually had a dream about it last night where I showed my boss and she hated it.
I have to think about this more. Should I have a different lining fabric? Would yellow handles help? Or do I have to just try it and see? I guess from the outside it would still be cute.