two more, up for sale!

I made two more I.D. wallets yesterday, and put them on my Etsy shop. So if you'd like to buy one, please don't think twice! :)

*Oh, and did I mention that the money made from selling these wallets will go towards a wonderful, absolutely amazing cause? Yep. All the money will go towards my trip to Germany next year as an exchange student! A good cause, if you ask me. ;)

xo, charlotte

New Etsy Shop!

So I decided that I'd like to start selling those little I.D. wallets that I've been making and posting about previously.

So, of course, I set up an etsy shop, which then sat there for about a month, with nothing in it.


Finally I get up enough motivation, and find the time, to finish one and list it.

Approximately 4 hours later, it's been sold. Fast service, or what?!?

(It was my aunt that bought it, though, so I guess that could be considered cheating...)  :)

But if you'd like to check out my empty shop, you're more than welcome to!  Here it is: Legit Crafts on Etsy   Hopefully I'll have more items in there soon.

xo, Charlotte

Happy New Year! (and another i.d. wallet)

Well, it's officially the New Year...3 days ago...but better late than never!

So, I forgot to take pictures of this I.D. wallet which I gave to my friend for a Christmas present...so she kindly took pictures of it for me. :)

This one also has the newly-invented strap on it. I found an even better way to do it (after I made this one), rather than sew through 24 layers of fabric.... :) You can find it here.

Did you know that on January 23, 2012, the Chinese New Year changes to the year of the dragon? Well, if you didn't, now you do. :)

xo, charlotte

Another I.D. Wallet

Remember that Cross Country team I mentioned in one of my last posts? Well, even though the season's over, we still have little parties from time to time. :)  This time we had a Secret Santa gift exchange, so I whipped up a little wallet in approximately 2 hours. No biggie. :)

Of course, the only zipper I had left was red, and I had absolutely no red fabric (and I hate the color red). So, I used other-colored fabric that had bits of red in it, so it's sort of matchy, but not super matchy-matchy. ;) Look at that random quilting...so fun to do... :)

And guess what? This time I added a wrist strap! I guess I'm getting inventive. (:

Well, that was a short post, but short and sweet, right? :)

xo, charlotte

Handmade Vera Bradley Wallet Knock-offs

So, I found this amazing, awesome, super-duper fun tutorial to make Vera Bradley-like wallets. (You can find the tutorial here: ThimbleAnna's Blog)

I tweaked the tutorial a little to make them have rounded corners (instead of square) so they'll look more like Vera Bradley's.

I made the first one for my sister for her birthday.

The 2nd one I made for me. :)

And here's the cake I made for her (and her friend's) birthday. I only had one decorating bag left, so i was limited to two colors. they wanted pink and blue, but it looked like baby colors to me, so i changed it to pink and purple. Now it was only girly colors....

xo, charlotte