A first-ever for The Frugal Girl: a giveaway of my own
I know I'm supposed to be posting about baking today, but I've got nothin' for ya! I plan to bake a little something to share with you tomorrow, though, so we're just flip-flopping Wednesday's and Thursday's posts. 😉
Two years ago when I posted about how to make cloth gift bags, Katy of The NonConsumer Advocate suggested that I do a cloth bag giveaway, and while I thought that was a great idea, I never really around to it.
Well, until now.
This week I made a small red velvet gift bag specifically for one of you!
To make it, I used the last of the fabric from this jumper that was given to me as a hand-me-down when I was a teenager.
(Yes, I totally wore it. In fact, it was one of Mr. FG's favorites, and I wore it for our engagement pictures, which I would share with you if they were digital. So you'll just have to imagine me with puffy bangs in a velvet jumper. Or not. That might be disturbing.)
Anyways, this jumper has definitely done its time as a jumper and is serving us much better as a pile of gift bags!
I'm not a professional seamstress by any stretch of the imagination, but I think this bag will serve you well. The top edges are finished neatly so that they'll look beautiful when you tie the bag shut, and the inside edges are zig-zagged so that the fabric won't fray.
I'm including a silver ribbon that I salvaged from an Ann Taylor bag (Worry not...I wasn't actually shopping at Ann Taylor. The bag was filled with hand-me-downs. 😉 ).
So, every part of this gift bag is repurposed except for the thread that I used.
I made this bag from the bodice pieces (it's all that was left of the jumper!), so it's about 9.5x 8.5 inches, which is perfect for small gifts.
If you'd like to enter to win this bag, just leave a comment. I'll randomly choose a winner 48 hours from now, at 7:00 AM, EST on Friday. I'll contact the winner by email to obtain a mailing address and if I don't hear back from the winner within 48 hours, I'll choose a new recipient.
Because I'm paying the shipping costs for this, I'll have to be a meanie and say that it's open only to readers who live in the 48 contiguous United States (edit: WilliamB pointed out that shipping to APO and FPO boxes costs the same as domestic shipping does, so if you've got one of those addresses, enter away!).
If you live outside the U.S., though, don't lose heart. Cloth gift bags are super easy to make, so if you've got very basic sewing skills, you can whip up a bag by following my tutorial.
See you tomorrow for some baking!
Today's 365 post: 3/$0.99
May I suggest allowing APO and FPO addresses as well, since shipping to these addresses is the same as shipping to the lower 48?
Your suggestion has been implemented. Thanks!
That's cool, I would like to enter.
Thank you
Jenn H
I want to win! And the shipping would be free.
I'd love to win! Oh, and just a heads-up shipping to an APO/FPO does require customs paperwork this is available at the post office-it's not awful, but definately a pain IMO.
I'm good with paperwork...as long as it's not super complicated and time-consuming, I'm game.
Good point - I forgot about the form. It's not hard at all, you can it do while standing in line. The hardest part for me is finding it at the post office in the first place. It does mean you have to go to the post office, though. Sorry!
Inspired by your original post on these bags my daughters and I are keeping a lookout at both the fabric store and Goodwill for a good deal on velvet fabric or velvet clothing. We want to make pretty Christmas bags too 🙂 Maybe we'll win this One to start. Our collection!
I love all of your ideas for "repurposing" fabrics! And I'd love to win this bag!
It is a great idea and a beautiful bag! I am new to your blog and it has definitely got my wheels spinning with what I can do with an old velvet prom dress that I have at my parents house!
It's beautiful! I'd love to win the bag.
I would like to note that if you're sneaky, you can get some great deals at Ann Taylor, particularly the LOFT store! 🙂 Periodically they'll do 30 or 40 percent off their already reduced clearance prices. I've gotten quite a few lovely items of clothing for under $15 that had original price tags of $80+ ! 🙂 I do LOVE the ribbon and the velvet though - so cute and festive!
Ooh, I love sales where you get to take an additional percentage off of clearance sales. They really blow my hair back. =P
I can also vouch for what Megan said. I've gotten some really good deals at the LOFT. The clothes fit me perfectly and are so well made that they last for a long time. Just my two cents. 🙂
Can you see my hand in the air and me dancing in my seat.... PICK ME! PICK ME!
Oooohhh, that is so pretty! I have to go see what's in the back of my closet in the way of velvet....
Ooh, pretty! Count me in. I just realized that I remember the cloth gift bag tutorial being posted last year, which means that I've been reading your blog for about a year now, and it's fantastic! Time flies 🙂
I'd like to try my hand at making these and it's so much easier if you have one in hand to look at as you go along- so please enter me also! Thanks for all your frugal tips- I'm still working hard to be a SAHM now that my kids are older. Hubby is super supportive so that helps a lot! We wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas!!
Beautiful! I am also sitting here waving my hand in the air, saying pick me!
I love the sweet memories your repurposed items invoke. I love looking at former clothing and remembering the time and place of their being worn. You are such an encouragement to me.
Thanks for sharing your advice, hints and memories.
Joan M
What a great giveaway idea. I would love to win.
I would love to win! When you did your post about making cloth gift bags, I was inspired. Hubby and I just put our flannel sheets on the bed. They were an after-Christmas purchase last year and came with two white flannel pillowcases. I dislike flannel pillow cases, so they are now destined to become gift bags! I'm planning to leave one of them as is for larger gifts and cut the other one up for smaller items.
Great idea - pillowcases! Might need to look at Goodwill for some neat looking pillowcases.
Would love to win your bag.
I've made a few myself, but none out of velvet. And certainly not out of your vintage jumper!
Love it! Every time I read about your sewing adventures, I want to go buy a sewing machine. I am a perpetual reuser of paper gift bags though, so this cloth one would be great!
So pretty! I know just who and what I could use it for. Thank you for the opportunity.
Several comments:
Puffy bangs, HAH, I love the image that conjures! Not in the least because I was both a puffy bang coiffed hair person and a jumper wearing one too (especially when I was teaching 1st grade, pre-babies).
Love the velvet bag. It is very nice of you to give it away at your own expense.
Love Whoppers too. Do they come along with the bag?!! 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity to win!
What a great idea - to repurpose clothes. I'm about to give away baby blankets, the soft fleece kind. Do you think they could be used to make gift bags, or would the material be too challenging with a sewing machine?
I found an idea for getting more use out of baby blankets in an issue of Family Fun magazine. One mom made big floor pillows out of them. Her older children now sit or lay around on them on the floor while watching tv, reading, playing games, or whatever. I thought it was a great idea especially since we have oodles of baby blankets around but no babies anymore. 🙂
My mom saved all of her maternity clothes from when she was pregnant with me and my brother and my Mema was able to make them into baby blankets to use when I have kids! Such a sweet idea! Now, the pressure they are putting on me to have a baby even though I've only been married a year and a half is not so sweet, but I'm sure they have good intentions! 🙂
What a cute bag! I'd love to win. And then I will make some bags of my own.
The bag is beautiful. I could definitely use this for my daughter since she is a lover of everything soft and girly, and especially since I can't sew. Thanks!
pretty pretty!
Beautiful job on the bag, and excellent re-purposing of materials!
Love the bag and, selfishly, think that I would keep it for myself to keep in my gym bag to put jewelry in when I work out 🙂 Although I think I've gotten better about not wasting food as I've gotten older, I def appreciate the Friday food waste posts. I try to think about how to repurpose food. Last week I had a pie crust and some buttermilk in the frig and started thumbing thru my cookbooks (the kind that churches sell, the best kind) and found a recipe for buttermilk pie! I made it and turned out great and felt good to be able to knock out some food I wasn't sure what to do with. Keep up the good work!
That's beautiful, and such a great idea!
OMG! This is gorgeous! I thought so last year, too, when I saw the bags. 🙂 My mom is all about homemade items, and while this isn't homemade by me, she'd love to receive her gift in it. Thanks, Kristen, for everything you do here!!
It's so pretty! Count me as entered 🙂
What an awesome idea! The bag is so beautiful. I love your blog. Thank you for all your wonderful ideas.
Beautiful gift bag! I just bought a sewing machine so I will give this a try. 🙂
My sewing skill are very limited so this would be great.
What a beautiful bag! I'd love to be entered!
Thanks.
Manuela
What a nice giveaway - thanks for the opportunity! I went and checked the original post and loved the one made out of the pajama pants too. You've inspired me! I have a sewing evening scheduled with a friend this evening and I'm thinking I can look through my fabric (ie Goodwill clothing stash) and see what I come up with. Also - I knit and use Goodwill sweaters unraveled as a yarn source or if they aren't that kind of knit, but wool, they can be felted - another source of raw materials!
it's really beautiful..and i love 1 of a kind things! would love to win
How beautiful! I love simplicity - but this bag looks far to elegant to be simple!! I would love to win it!!
Such a cute bag! I so need to learn to sew!
I'm impressed that even as a High School-er, you were a practicing frugal girl and kept your jumper for all this time! I would love to win!
Me please! Right now my hubby's presents are just in a plain old shoebox... and that might be how he gets them...
Gorgeous! I can already see what I would put in it...
Count me in!
This is a great prize, count me in. Thanks.
What a cool giveaway! Thanks!
My husband had always said I was a tight-wad and held on to a penny until Lincoln blinked. Not to mention making fun of my shopping at Goodwill, tag sales, etc. I now correct him and proudly tell him I am not tight but FRUGAL.
God Bless,
Elissa
Ohhh... So pretty! I'd love to know all the wonderful things you can do with left over fabrics. I have tons of old fabric I've been keeping, but not enough ideas. I love this one. Thanks for taking the time you do to share with us.
That bag is lovely. I've been hoping to make some gift bags this year, although it might get put off till next! 🙂
I promise to think of you with puffy bangs every time I use this bag 😀
That bag is just gorgeous, and I'd love to win it to start my fabric gift-bag collection.
What a fabulous way to repurpose old clothing! I just happened to have inherited a hideous velvet dress, in a bag of hand me downs last week. I believe there's just enough fabric there to make several gift bags. Thanks for the suggestion!
I know I don't have much chance of winning, but I'm going to enter anyway!
I'd love to be included in the drawing for the bag. In fact you gave me an excellent idea! I'm going to look around through the clothing at church tonight (church gives away clothing for free once a month to the public) and see if I can find something that would make good bags to put the gifts for FIL & MIL in this year.
Beautiful Bag! It would look lovely under my tree!!! :0)
so sweet Kristen, love the bag. 🙂
Sign me up! It is a beauty. 🙂
Very nice! Count me in!
I'm loving the image of the puffy bangs and the velvet jumper! I wore lots of jumpers, especially when I was pregnant. I'm thinking I'm just a bit too old for them now, though. 🙂
Gorgeous bag. I made a few myself last year from old flannel sheets. They're soft and effective, but not nearly as elegant as velvet.
It's beauiful!
I would love to win a bag like that : )
It's lovely! You'd think it was brand new, but I love that it is repurposed.
The bag is very pretty. I have your blog bookmarked and read it every morning. It inspires me and helps reinforce that nothing but good comes from living frugally...
Beautiful!
Ladies, before you chop 'em up, you might want to hold off for one more year: velvet is back! 🙂 http://www.vogue.com.au/fashion/trends/velvet+crush,2655
I am bringing back one of my favorite dresses ever, which I refused to get rid of even after my friends staged a velvet intervention! LOL
Love your blog! Hope I win :o).
I just want to say that this bag is lovely. Thank you for offering the directions for making it. This will be handy for wrapping those 'weirdly sized' items!
And if I should be the lucky 'random winner' of this give-a-way, you may keep the bag yourself (or give it to someone less-fortunate in your community) and donate the shipping costs to the charity you wrote about in yesterday's post.
My sister (who is a big fan of yours herself) would LOVE this! Count me in.
I would love to give a present wrapped in one of these bags
That bag is beautiful! I would love to win it. 🙂 My sewing skills are pretty non-existent as the last time I made anything was in junior high about 15 years ago. (Whoa!)
You've inspired me to consider learning how to do it again.
what a fun idea
My mom finally decided to switch to fabric gift bags this year, and I'm a little jealous of her growing collection. This would be a perfect way to start my own, and inspiration to get sewing!
How sweet! Thanks, FG!
Your bag is beautiful! I'd love to win. I crocheted some small gift bags this year and they came out cute. I think they will hold up for many regifts too- better than paper gift bags!
I'd like to win. It looks so pretty and elegant.
I would love the beautiful bag. I have every intention of making some this year but they will be strictly utilitarian and made from quilters cotton.
I would love one!!
Great idea! I have been using my daughters old and stained clothes and turned them into hair bows. I love upcycling!!!
Very pretty!
Looks really nice! Would be nice to give my daughter for Christmas stuffed with goodies.
Thanks so much!
I need to look at your tutorial! The red with the silver bow are beautiful. Anyone would be excited to win this from The Frugal Girl!
Great idea! Any other cheap ideas? Have you ever made homemade food (such as mustard or dressing) as gifts? How did you keep this a cheap option?
What a great idea! I have some old dresses like that too that I keep for memories sake. Maybe it's time to make some new memories out them...hmmm!
My sister and I are just starting to sew and this will make for a great project. The bag would make for a great gift bag for the holidays, especially for my five year old niece, great idea!
Okay, now I'm totally inspired to try to find time to make some of these myself. I can't bear to throw away fabric so I have boxes and boxes in the attic
of scraps and big pieces. We were given some velvet clothes when my daughter was little (she's 13 now) and because of tiny stains or imperfections I never passed them along. Yep, they're in the attic too and they would be perfect for this.
I homeschool my kids also and you help me keep my focus when I feel like I
couldn't possibly add anything else to my busy schedule. So from one homeschool
Mom to another. Thank you for what you do!
I've love to win; that's lovely. I have an old bridesmaid dress that's probably headed toward being a bunch of gift bags, but I don't see that happening this year.
Horay!
TFG is now doing giveaways! And what a cute one to start with!
You are so kind! What a great idea!
Kristie
Thanks I would like to enter too but, I will have to send you something too. That is very pretty. I used to wear those too.
This is lovely! I would love to win!
I think it is so awesome that you were able to re-use that dress. I would have never thought to do that.
A few years back I bought some Christmas-y fabric after Christmas when it was marked down to $1/yard and made a bunch of bags in assorted sizes. They're so handy for wrapping those strangely-shaped things. Mine aren't as beautiful as yours--mostly printed poly-cotton, and we use curling ribbon to tie them shut, but they're functional and add fun color and shapes under the tree! I should probably make some more; the kids like to grab them to wrap the gifts they're giving and then there are none left for me to use! (Or maybe I should buy and wrap my gifts before the last weekend.....)
What a fantastic idea. I really need to learn how to use my sewing machine!
Very cool idea to use an old dress for fabric! hadn't thought of that, but i'm sure now I'll be sniping and sewing away ha!
What a nice giveaway! Thanks!
I would love to win your pretty bag! Thanks for all the great tips!
pick me! pick me! hee hee ... i'm so impressed by the fact that you made this, and by your site in general.
Pick. Me.
😎
Katy
P.S. The burgundy velvet with the silver ribbon looks very sophisticated.
Katy
Beautiful! I would love to have a velvet bag for my mother-in-law's gift. Over the years I have made Christmas gift bags from cotton fabrics for our family (we've grown to 18 now in three generations) to avoid some of the paper waste that used to take over. I personalized them so we know whose is whose...son-in-law KC Chief's fabric, daughter appliqued heart on muslin, etc. The problem is making sure I get them all back so we can use them again the next year! 😉
GREAT looking bag...well done, would love it! but even if I don't win, maybe this will inspire me to finally make some of my own, even if not as velvety-fancy!
This is beautiful. My sister in law would love to receive her small gift in this bag so that she may re-purpose it too!
Wow- love the bag- Super Job!! Would love to win it.
Merry Christmas!!!
What a pretty bag. Thank you for the giveaway. I used to have a velvet jumper way back when, too.
Your gift bag looks very upscale. Without reading this post, no one would guess it's a repurposed jumper from years gone by.
I know it has nothing to do with it but do you do a real christmas tree or an artificial. I found myself wondering last night, though i love a real tree would it be worth buying an artificail one for the sake of the environment..... Any thoughts?
Love the bag! I have four daughters so bags, purses, duffles they are all put to good use. I'm sure we would treasure it!
I remember wearing jumpers like that "back in the day", too! So thanks for the trip down Memory Lane - and please count me in your give-a-way! Your bag is so pretty - would love to win it!
That bag is stunningly beautiful. Seriously, I love the thought of gifting something to someone with a bag like that. I guess I should start going through all the fabric I have to see if I have some I can use to make one!
Love your ideas, Kristen. Thanks for inspiring me and my family to live frugally.
Ooh, how pretty! love when something new is made from something old!
You had me worried that you were buying clothes at AT! Love the bag, and would love to win it!
Oh how pretty! I want one.
Bags like this are such a great idea and I have a very old (we are talking 40 years here) velvet skirt in a trunk somewhere. So, if I don't win this, I just might make my own. It's green velvet and if I did win, the bags would be very festive together.
That's a very cute bag. I would love to win it. Thanks.
I am pretty sure that I put my entry to win on the wrong page but maybe this will be the right one. I really want to urge you to make the children Bible book markers or something else special out of the dress so they would have it forever because it was their Dad's favorite dress that you wore!!!
I would love to win - the bag looks so elegant. I want to make a few of my own, but its not going to happen this year with a newborn!
The best kind of gifts are the ones that are made from the heart!
Kristen, this is a beautiful gift bag and a great idea! You are so creative!
Throwing my hat in the ring. This is a great idea!
Your website is one that I read everyday. I enjoy your honesty and simplicity. And I hope that I win your gift bag!
I would love to win a prize! I love to get things in the mail!!!!
I'd love to win. And I love your blog. I think you are amazing and inspiring!
I would like to enter your contest.
Beautiful!
Kristen (my sister's name is also Kristen ),
I don't often comment, but I really enjoy your newsletters, and all the fun frugal ways you find to re-purpose things. Wouldn't mind winning this one, it's a totally cute bag! Thanks for all the great ideas! ~Claudia
I would love to win this bag. Thank you!
I'd love to win.
Beautiful! And for those of use not lucky enough to win, here is a tutorial of the Japanese art of wrapping gifts in fabric. It's from a company that sells the fabric squares, but I think it would be easy to make your own.
http://furoshiki.com/techniques_category_general
What a lovely bag! I'd love to use it this Christmas! 🙂
Beautiful bag, I may have to try to make one of those! Thanks!
Absolutly wonderful idea!!
You are quite an inspiration to me,
~K.
I love these kinds of bags and I cannot sew a lick!
it's lovely! you are sooo creative 🙂
Awesome!
Please add me to the drawing! Thanks. LCD
I would love to win that cute bag!!! Merry Christmas!
Beautiful! I would love this.
Well that is lovely. ; )
Kristen,
I love your blog! I'd also like to win a bag too 🙂 What a great idea!
I love the idea of resusing old clothes in new ways! What a fantastic idea and so very green of you! I would love to win this bag!
Beautiful - what a wonderful giveaway!
I actually thought of your reusable gift bags last night as I was wrapping up a Christmas gift and thought I should make some of my own. Thanks for the inspiration.
I would love to have that bag. I have several pieces of Christmas fabric leftover from different projects and plan to make gift bags but........none are velvet.....
I would love to win the gorgeous velvet giftbag. Please enter me for the drawing, (I couldn't find my comment before, so I'm commenting again, not trying to cheat!!!
Thanks, Trudy
Love the homemade gift bag! The Japanese have a tradition of presenting gifts in "furoshiki", a square cloth with each opposite corner folded in and tied...the recipient would then return the furoshiki to the giver- with a small gift enclosed...recycling, indeed!
Yes please. 🙂
Bag looks great-very professional looking to me! Thanks for the giveaway.
The gift bag is lovely! I like this idea for gift wrap because I never seem to have boxes that are the right shape for wrapping - and it's not like I want to clutter up my house with odd-size boxes just in case I need them.
Very nice I wish I had a little of your sewing talent my daughter would like this
Very very pretty! My finance said he would want to use it as a dice bag for his rpgaming!
I have a PO box in Alaska, but am unsure as to if that is what APO stands for, I have a feeling not... Still I would gladly help half the shipping if needed!
I love repurposing items. I felt wool sweaters from the Goodwill and use for craft projects. Last year I gave felted wool coasters as gifts.
I cut apart my wedding dress(which I made myself and would not have fit either one of my daughters) and made bags for both my daughters to carry at their weddings. I still have enough fabric to make one for my granddaughter and another granddaughter if my youngest daughter ever has any girls.
Enter me! I have been wanting fabric gift bags for a while. I know my husband would buy me a sewing machine if I just asked and then I could make my own...but then I'd actually have to follow through with my good intentions!
I've been meaning to get around to crocheting some gift bags... maybe I'll get the time to do so 🙂
I love the velvet, although my sewing skills aren't quite as good as my crocheting skills 😛
That's a wonderful idea. I'm heading out to the second-hand store this afternoon.
I'm in!! How sweet the bag is.
The jumpers reminds me of a velvet dress that was my moms. Every so often she would let me wear it and I felt sooo special!!!
Patti
Ooh I would love to win this! Thanks for the giveaway
I love the bag and the idea of having the gift wrap be a gift in-and-of itself!
What a great gift wrapping idea (and one that keeps on giving!
Here's a frugal story for you: I once found an old sewing machine at Salvation Army for $12. The idea was to have It on hand to hem pants and for the occasional swell craft project like this. A friend was collecting items to ship overseas to Ghana where she helps fund a school and orphanage. I mentioned my 2nd hand sewing machine and her eyes lit up. She reminded me that a woman could support her family as a seamstress if she had a machine like that. I loved my cheap thrift store find, but truthfully, I didnt use it enough to justify keeping it when it would do so much more good somewhere else. So off it went. I hope it's making a difference for someone.
You are just too sweet Kristen!! I of course would love to win this bag! 🙂
What a great way to repurpose ye old jumper 🙂 I'd love to be entered into your drawing.
Great idea...would love to do something like this with come of the kids outfits that i want to keep!
Great idea..love it!
I would sooo LOVE to win this!!! 🙂
Beautiful bag and ribbon - thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
You always challenge my thinking. I'm not frugal by nature, but you are helping me mend my spendthrift ways.
How pretty. Would love to win it.
Love your blog, especially Wednesday baking, and I'd love to receive such a well-crafted bag =oD
I love the idea of a reusable gift bag! And I love the colors of this one as well. 🙂
I love the feel of velvet! It is so soft. Please pick me!
Very pretty!! I love velvet!!! 🙂
I love your site!! The gift bag is gorgeous and like everyone else, I would love to win it!! Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
Thanks for the give-a- way!
Would love it!
Very cute idea! captainliss40@gmail.com
Oh my how beautiful. Looks so high end boutique!
So inspiring! Enter me!
Thanks for the idea of a clever way to re-use old clothing!
Thank you so much Kristen for the post on making gift bags. It would be wonderful to win the one you are offering. I have been enjoying your blog for several months now and have been inspired to implement so many of your ideas. Thank you for sharing your life and your family with your readers. You are an inspiration to many. Merry Christmas to you and your lovely family! God Bless!
My mom makes something similar to these for children to carry their gifts home from our annual Christmas party. Her bags are bigger, of course, and have a handy drawstring. This year, I asked her if she'd make something festive to cover my sofa pillows for the holidays. She made some great sham-like slipcovers out of material she already had. I was super excited about the easy decorating, and I'll use them year after year.
I would love to win this cute bag.
I would love to win... 🙂
The bag is beautiful. Count me in as entered. I am inspired daily by your simplified, principled, organized life. Today my oldest son turned four. This would be a great gift FOR MOM 🙂
I would love to win
I never win anything but thought i would try! Merry christmas!
Beautiful bag! I love using old clothes to make something new from.
Beautiful bag! I absolutely love that it is repurposed. Some of the gifts I have given this year go with the theme "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". Clever, you are so very clever to keep something seeing that it has great potential for another use.
It's a great way to use up fabric and re-purpose old clothing! I love the idea.
This is too cute! I am so going to make these. You know half the time the gift is all about the wrapping/presentation and what could be cuter than these. I love it. Thanks again for the great ideas.
This is beautiful. I love this idea, I have some leftover velvet from my wedding 12 years ago I have been saving. It would be wonderful to wrap gifts to each other in them each year.
I've knitted a gift bag but that takes a while. I'd love to win this bag and now I have an idea of what to do with some scraps of velvet I've got laying around. Once I saw where you could use a rubber stamp and your iron to permanently press a design into velvet. That could be another use for your jumper!
Thanks for posting this awesome giveaway! The bag is beautiful and would get lots of great use in our house!
I want that bag!
Love the bag, would love to win it!
This bag is so lovely! You are such a FRUGAL genius! Thanks for sharing your idea and for the giveaway!
What a fabulous reuse project! And I totally had engagement pictures with pleated, high-waisted khakis and big hot-rolled hair!
I would love this bag! Thanks so much for your great blog.
🙂 Mandy
paicemom@yahoo.com
Just found your blog (thanks Thrifty Threads!)...love the bag, so I'm throwing my hat in the ring. 🙂
I would love to win a decorative bag made by you. This is such a special touch to gift giving.
Sheila Payne
I would love to win. Thanks for the chance.
Oh, I want to win. Pick me.
dicity
I would love to win such a cute bag!
Fun! My colors this year are red and silver. 🙂 And I TOTALLY had a jumper just like that about 12 years ago, only it was brown. Wish I had a pic to trade. haha!
I used to have a velvet dress...hmm... 🙂
I would love to win your repurposed bag. Really think it's great how you recycled!
I love this bag! I seriously need to get out my machine which I scored for $8.00 at the Goodwill (had to buy a foot pedal off ebay) and learn to sew.
I live in the 48. Enjoy your blog.
What an awesome gift bag Kristen!
I would love this too!
Patti
I really love this bag and your reuse of beautiful fabric. Thanks for the tips and ideas. Merry. CHRISTMAS. THANKS FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN ONE.
Kristin, you are so creative. I am just in awe of you for all you do (home schooling, cooking, blogging, photography, wife, mother, etc). I would love to have this cute bag you made. Blessings and prosperity to you and yours!!
You are inspiring!!! My MIL always says her favorite hairstyle of mine was the one I had during our engagement photos. This was 15 years ago and I am not sure if this is a compliment??? But, I choose to look at it that way! 🙂 I hope I win your adorable creation!