Gift Wrap Alternative

A bunch of new bags were recently added to Pine Hill Forest, and I am in love!

I love the different combinations of fabrics combined with the unique felted brooches and zipper pulls.

It got me thinking about the various uses for the bags. There is the obvious pencil case, makeup bag, purse organizer, etc. But what about using them as an alternative to gift wrap? I would love to see one of these bags peeking out the top of a stocking with a pair of pretty socks inside, or a new set of markers for a child who loves to draw. The possibilities really are endless, and instead of throwing paper away afterwards you'd have a beautiful bag to keep using!

Here are some of the recent additions which I love:

Poodle Bag

Fresh Poppies Bag

Bubble Blast Bag

Swimming Sisters Bag

Poppy Bouquet Bag

West Hills Horses Bag

Lindy Leaf Bag

You can check out these bags and more here.

Do you have a favorite?

Mine is definitely the Fresh Poppies Bag. I love the color combination, and the beautiful handmade felt zipper pull.

bags, bags, bags!

I'm loving all the new bags from Pine Hill Forest.

I'm loving them all so much I don't even think I can pick a favorite.

Well...actually I think I do have one favorite in the group below:

The Matryoshka Girl Zippered Pouch

The Patchwork Zippered Pouch

Mermaid Friends Zippered Pouch

The Lanterns Zippered Pouch

The Little Hedgehogs Zippered Pouch

The Birdie Zippered Pouch

The Honeycomb Zippered Pouch

Which one is your favorite?!

Bag Update

What I use all of my custom zippered bags for!

Just thought I'd get out a quick post showing off the newest batch of bags from Pine Hill Forest. As usual I love them all, but definitely have a sure favorite this time around. I just can not get enough of the little yellow birdies sitting atop the chairs in the first bag pictured below. Too cute!!

It's in the Bag II

Here we go again!

I just had to show off another batch of beautiful one of a kind zippered pouches from Pine Hill Forest. Each one is unique and it's quite hard for me to pick a favorite. But if I had to, I think I would have to go with that yellow polka dotted lovely shown two down from the top.

What's your favorite?

Green Bubbles

Yellow Dots

Lavender Dots

Butterfly Bag

Dogwood Blooms

Never Enough!

You know I can't help it. I love posting pictures of the fun bags my mom makes for her etsy shop. I have a case of sewers envy. Good thing she'll make things for me whenever I ask!

Here are three of the newest in her collection:

My very favorite actually sold before I had a chance to write up this post! But no worries my second favorite (and it was a very close second at that) is the gorgeous pink bag at the top made of Riley Blake's Summer Song fabrics. It's so summery and makes me want to get out and soak up that lovely sun! What's your favorite?!

It's in the Bag

It's that time again.

Time to photograph and upload a bunch of fun new zippered pouches to the Pine Hill Forest shop!

Here a few of my new favorites:

Check out these and more, here!

Summer Colors

I often like to post neat things my mom has made for her shop.

I can't sew and she can create amazing things like it is nothing. Recently she has been making cute little one of a kind zippered pouches for her etsy shop, with unique zipper pulls.

My current favorite is this summer bag with a cute little felt bird attached to the zipper. I can't imagine sitting there doing all that hand embroidering and beading! She loves it though. Good thing because I'll probably be asking her to make me one of my own a.s.a.p. ;)

Check out this and other adorable bags here!

Bag Lady

Sometimes I photograph the various hand sewn goodies my mom makes for her etsy shop. I don't mind helping her out, and often if I see something I love I can usually convince her to make me something similar as a 'thank you' for photographing everything for her :)

Her newest creations are zippered pouches. I own about a million of her hand sewn bags and I love them. Pretty zippered pouches are useful for so many things! Right now I'm tempted to make this one mine, because I adore the little lavender puppy!

Here are the newest batch of bags:

You can find these and a few more, here.

Which one is your favorite?!

New Work (Part III)

This time the new work is not my own.

It is actually the work of my mom, creator behind all the lovelies over at Pine Hill Forest. I just updated her banner for her, and took the pictures of her newest line.

I am so in love with her newest creations, and own about 5 of them myself. These little zipper pouches have been my life saver when it comes to keep my knitting needles and notions organized. I'm also thinking I need a custom little one to have in my purse to hold the all important chap sticks and lip glosses that I can never find.

The new bags:

The Blue Floral Zipper Pouch

The Gold and Green Zippered Pouch

Aren't they the cutest!? (confession. I'm in love with the little blue dog on her blue floral pouch!)

Keep on the look out for more new bags to be listed in the shop soon!