Saturday is a special day it's the day we.....have some serious crafting! Anyone who has gone shopping with me that last few months knows that I have been trying to find a new purse since my old one started to fall apart at the seams....I mean this literally! Don't believe me I can show it to you. Who can't find a purse in a couple months time, me! A couple years ago my sister started making purses and since she's amazing she made me one. Following that my Mom made me one for my Birthday last year. I loved both these purses, you get to pick the fabric & pattern making it unique to you. I have tried going back to purses from a store but always end up moving my "purse supplies" back to one of my homemade purses. You just can't beat them! Well the purse from last year just wasn't going to live much longer so I began the quest of replacing it when I decided no store had one that would meet what I wanted I was really glad my Mom has been working on teaching me so sew. I decided to practice my sewing skills, eeekk. I found the pattern, searched for fabric for a few weeks and after a few errors followed by some unpicking the project is complete. I didn't even call my Mom for help, besides making sure I had the correct interfacing. Now it's not going to win a blue ribbon at a fair or anything but I am pretty proud of it.

In the middle of my sewing project my sister called to tell me her friend was coming over to make jewelry later in the afternoon & wanted to know if I'd like to join them while our husbands were off flying together (Mark took Mike on one of his lesson yesterday). Of course I had to say yes, 1- I love jewelry 2- it sounded like more fun than cleaning my apartment. When I finally got there, later than planned due to some sewing misfortunes they let me join the party & after about 2 hours of playing with beads I came up with the following:

Okay so it's not spectacular but it matches my pearl earrings from Mark so I love it! Thanks for letting me come play with the beads!