For the Purse Lover

My Mother in law is a purse lover. You know the type...has a million..and uses them all. (I am a one purse wonder...I have one....I wear it until it breaks..then I get a new one...mine also is ginormous and doubles as a diaper bag) And they are all Gorgeous...works of art....too pretty to be shoved in the closet --so we are going to make a holder to display all those pretty little purses.....

looks kind weird right?

how about this:

aaahhh...makes a little more sense right?

Took a piece of wood

had my son lay down so you can see how big it was

(he's dead.)

Now I wanted to wrap it in fabric...but I didn't have anything in my stash that I loved...and Joanns new store wasn't open yet...so I just took all my black and white scraps and pieced them together...

 layed it out first to pick a layout I liked...

I sewed them on piece by piece

 then I laid them out...

and trimmed my scraps....

and ironed them flat!

took these items.....

cut it in 7 inch pieces ( I don't remember what this is called...like belt material...it was at Joanns...it will come to me)

melted the edges to prevent fraying

measure and pinned them on (they are about 9 inches apart)

when I laid this out...I thought hum....I could just reinforce this fabric and make a fabric hanging one...but the board was sitting there....so I used it!

Then I used my sewing machine to sew on the material that I can't think of the name and then I hand stiched the sew on snaps ( I really need a snap setter!)

I only sewed the mystery fabric half way on...

I added a button for looks...and wrapped the board using hot glue, spray adhesive and gorilla glue...I wanted to be safe...not sorry!

Then I took one of these

and nailed it to the back!

and hung it to the wall (disclaimer: I have been waiting for a sunny day to get decent pictures...but guess what? Nov sucks. No sun. So not the best pictures! Take it or leave it!

 Okay...so these are the only purses I could find (and I had to dust them!) soon as I can I'm going to get a picture with my mother in law's purses...cause they are awesome!!!!

My kids posing so you can see how big it is! (okay..they just wanted to get their picture taken...not big smilers...)

I think this would go great on the inside of a closet door...you just unsnap the purse you want...fill it with your essentials and go.

and if you are truly ambitious and want to make your own purse to hang on the board....
A lemon squeezy home had a purse linky party...so if you are looking to make some awesome purses....check there! She a had a whole purse week...some of the great stuff was:

(from noodlehead)

(from create and delegate)

and I loved this one from Sew a straight line: (okay, and I loved the shoes!)

sew mama sew


 I would love to get this as a gift
 or this purse

from prudent baby