Kitty Kindles

This week I've been making more kindle covers.....I was asked by my cousin to make a kindle cover for his wife with two cats as the motif. I made 2 in different shades of brown for Kerry to choose from. And fell in love with them as soon as I'd cut out the little kitties.

Kerry chose the top cover with the golden cat motifs and her husband Gavin came to pick it up tonight. So now I have another kindle cover to add to my Etsy shop. As always please let me know if you're interested as I will be listing it tomorrow.

The last.....for now

As promised here are the last 3 kindle covers, I will be listing them in my Etsy shop on Friday, but if you'd like to bag one before then please leave me a comment or pop me an email emma@bagladee.com Each of the covers are £15 (plus £1.50 UK p&p).

Lovely Dragonfly leather kindle cover in hues of pinks.

A beautiful flower motif in a pale lemon.

As always with my Bagladee tag on the reverse.

Cute beach huts in cream with vibrant zesty yellows and oranges.

I wish I had lots of leather left but sadly this is the last.....so until I can get my mitts on some more I leave you with these!

Cupcakes and flowers

A post-Christmas order for some more Kindle covers from the very lovely Clare :) my favourite 'the cupcake' and now a new favourite 'the flower'. I didn't have much choice left in the way of colours but Clare was happy to chose from the ones I did have left. I must add at this point that Clare is not addicted to buying Kindle covers but has very kindly sold them onto friends and family.

I could seriously sit and make these all day!

How cute is this little vintage flower button.

Keep your eyes peeled for the last 3 kindle covers, I wished that I had copious amounts of gorgeous colourful leather but unfortunately I don't. I took the last few pieces of leather I had left and made 3, one with a flower, one with beach huts and one with a dragonfly *sigh*. I'll post pictures soon.

Hope the snow hasn't scuppered your weekend plans too much, we went for a walk late last night while it was still snowing and are off for another trek in an hour or so. The sun is shining and its a beautiful white day out there.

Sewing and Planning

So far this week there has been lots of sewing, lots of planning and lots of thinking. To say I have planned the next 12months out would sound utterly ridiculous but on paper I have. Right down to the week. There are lots of things I should have already completed but they just seem to be getting shoved down the list at the moment.

The first one of those tasks being to sort out my website and get my new products listed, there will be new purses, new mini clutch bags and a little bit of a revamp going on. Tomorrow I have 2 saddle bags to complete, one of which is new the other is a 'Betty' bag.

Another pre-Christmas kindle cover order.

Saturday we are going out with family to celebrate both mine and C's birthdays (C's was today, Happy Birthday Babe xxx) but I am hoping to sneak a little bit of sewing at some point.

I did think that January maybe a quiet month as far as orders were concerned but its been quite busy and they are still coming in. Kindle covers are still very popular hence the photo above. Thank you Amazon for creating the Kindle, its certainly kept me very busy over Christmas.

Christmas makes

Do you ever feel like there are so many ideas in your head that it might just explode?

Well I am very much feeling like that today. Betsie my trusted sewing machine is out getting a service and I'm feeling a little lost without her :( So I've been spending my afternoon writing some lists and planning out the next couple of weeks makes wise.

I thought I'd share with you some of the Christmas orders I'd been working on pre 2012. More lovely Kindle covers.

Another dragonfly motif in greens this time, very pretty. I also made a saddle bag for my Mam for
Christmas and a fabric Bucket for my lovely friend Rachel, both I forgot to photo before I wrapped them :( I must stop doing that. I lost count of how many gingerbread men I made, I think I stopped counting at 124. They have been pushed aside for now but I have some plans for those little guys in a few months time :D

A scientific Kindle cover

Here's another custom Kindle cover that I've made recently. The brief....conical flasks....interesting.

This one was for a school friend of mine, also called Emma (ickle Em's) *waves* and I love the colours.

I am sad that almost every scrap of my lovely leathers has now been used. I am still on the never ending search to get some more. So if anyone out there knows where there are some sample books going I'd really appreciate the heads up.

I am definitely no longer scared of sewing with leather :D Cant wait to get my hands on some more to make a few more covers.

Are you all ready for Christmas??? Nope me neither, still sewing gifts, still needing to go shopping, still got presents to wrap, still dithering about it all.....need to get oneself into gear and get it all sorted!!!

Cupcakes & books

Cant believe I forgot to show this post :( I think it was because I posted some photos on my FB page and thought no more about it. I know 'How dare I'!!!

These lovely pair were another order from the fabulous Clare *waves* and I have to say that the cupcake is most definitely my favourite motif to date. Gorgeous sunny yellow front and candy pink back. And another of the book motif, this time petrol blue front and sage green/grey back.

Couldn't resist showing some close ups.....

.....pretty button detail on the cupcake, looks good enough to eat right?

Here is the close up of the book, lovely hues of greys against the petrol blue.

When I first thought about cutting up the lovely samples of leather, I felt sick to my stomach. One mistake and its ruined. Now I'm itching to get my hands on some more leather so that I can have a go at some ipad covers and a netbook cover for myself.I'm thinking monogram 'B' for obvious reasons.....

If you are interested in having a kindle/iphone/ipad cover made, please do get in touch.....you can have what ever you like as a motif on the front you just need to ask :)

Dragonflies

I've been at it again :) Kindle covers galore. This one was requested for a birthday, it had to be purples and lilacs and had to have some kind of dragonfly design on it.

After looking at some images of real dragonflies I came up with this design, I drew out my templates and then the fun bit....picked the leathers. I had to incorporate this lovely magenta pink as my stash of leathers are quickly diminishing :(

The back is a lovely shade of lilac with a tab of leather cut out the top so that you can grip the Kindle to slide in and out. And of course wouldn't be complete without my Bagladee tag on the back.

I was pretty pleased with the design but was anxious to know if the lady in question liked it?!?! I received a lovely comment on my Facebook page this week to say that she loved it. Ahhh happy customer always makes a happy Bagladee :D

Now the race is on to find somewhere I can get my hands on some off cuts or old sample books of leather. Can anyone out there help I am of course will to pay for said leather. I'd be forever grateful.

More Kindle photos to come soon.....I've been making quite a few these past few weeks.

Custom Orders

I love the fact I am quite a diverse 'crafter', in that I mean that I will take on just about any challenge. Quite some time ago I was asked by the very lovely lady called Clare if I would make a Kindle Cover out of some leather samples I was given. I said yes and took on the challenge. Fast forward to a month ago and Clare was back asking if I would like to make another.....Oh Yeah!! Then one turned into two. And here they are.

One for Clare's Dad which were 'manly' colours. Brown for the front and tan for the back and a cute book motif for the front.

The other for Clare's Mam which were lovely shades of pink and mauve. Clare's Mam is a quilter so I tried to mimic a quilt square and popped a pretty button in the middle.

Now I have an order for another two (not Clare), the theme dragonflies!!

I kinda feel that I've been neglecting you all lately. I know that I haven't been providing you all with the usual amount of blog eye candy and for that I am truly sorry, please bare with me I promise there will be lots of photos to come soon. I'm still popping in and reading your blogs just not commenting very often. I'm still being nosey though :) very busy time for lil'ol bagladee at the moment.

Kindle cover challenge

And a challenge it was, but anyone that knows me knows I love a good challenge. I think it was late January when I received an email from the lovely Clare over at Bligger Blogger. She had seen the iPhone covers that I had made for 2 of my friends at Christmas and wondered if I could make something similar for her Kindle.

You can read about it here in her blog post.

Clare knew what colours she liked and wanted something with a seaside theme, she was more than happy when I suggested little beach huts. Seeing as I hadn't worked with leather very much I was a little apprehensive as to how it was going to turn out. But as soon as I started sewing it I was more than happy with the results.

It wasn't all as easy as that though, and after a second attempt we got it spot on. So the first cover had its stitching unpicked and was cut down to make a zip purse.

Clare was a perfect 'Custom Order' customer. Thanks ever so much Clare for asking me to make them for you. I am hoping to make some more leather items in the future so it has been good practice :) I loved adding the detail of the buttons....I know any excuse to use buttons.....they're just sooooo nice!! :D