The bags are a collaboration with this artist. She designed and hand pulled the screen print. The print was made on recycled canvas fabric, that at one time covered sofas. The handles are up-cycled from discarded handbags.
On the back of the bags we use vintage home dec fabric. They are all a little different, depending on the fabric I've found.
As for the home improvement project, I'm going to wait to share (wip).
It was necessary as my place was starting to look like the Shipman's. You know, the Shipman's.
Actually... I don't know them either. The family lived next door to my Nanny (grandmother) when she was growing up. The report is that their place was pretty trashy. In the years that followed, as a tool to enlist our help, she would refer to the now infamous Shipman's. As in, "This place is starting to look like the Shipman's"; which was a gross exaggeration on her part because; we did not dump trash in a pit dug in an unused room of our home, nor carelessly dump our no longer functioning bathroom fixtures into the yard and plant flowers in the bowl.
And so it goes... my sisters and I understand that to let yard maintenance go, is to surely end up like the Shipman's.
Disclaimer: If your last name is Shipman I am positive that the Shipman's I am referring to, are in no way related.
3 comments:
Ahh yes. The Shipmans. I know thee well. ;)
Those bags are adorable, and I LOVE the screenprinting!
The bags are pretty sharp! Well done! Can't wait to see the home improvement post.
are the bags for sale? how much are they? love them!
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