A simple thrift store find~redesigned

I decided I really needed to get out of this winter, snowy, icy yucky funk I have been in.  We normally get, oh maybe two good snow falls in January and February but we have had alot of snow this year.  We southern girls are just not into snow.  We like it for about 5 minutes and then we are over the pretty white stuff!  Our last snow was Wednesday a week ago.  Our city completely shuts down with the first speck of a snow flake.  People flock to the grocery store and empty the shelves with wild anticipation of a snow storm that you think would last a month.  I can say with great enthusiasm I am OVER ice and snow, I went outside Thursday to play with the peeps and their dad and 5 minutes into snow bliss I slipped and fell on ice.  I think I tore every muscle in the back of my right leg.   All I could do was just sit there as the ice under my injured butt began to melt.  I managed a faint whimper and my sweet 8 year old tried to help me regain some type of grace under the excruciating pain from the choir of leg muscles screaming.

All I managed to say to my husband as he tried to 'dust' the snow off of me; was if I could please go inside and cry in a fetal position in a corner somewhere.  So today, four days later with the sun warming up and melting the 'white crap' outside; I decided I really needed to get my blog going again before I start losing the wonderful followers I have!

~Sweet and Simple~

I have always, always wanted a cigar box purse and for some reason I just never got around to making one from scratch.  I was thrifting around in one of my favorite junk shops last year and came across a cigar box purse.  Perfect!! I thought and then I flipped it over to see what was on the other side and was disappointed to find a beaded (in my opinion) gaudy print of a roll skating car hop.  Thanks but No thanks and walked away.  Then I started to think about it and the potential it had so I went back for a second look and to see how easy it would be to take the fabric print off.  For $3 I couldn't pass it up!

Cigar purse before:

Love this side:

I took the metal corners off with a small flat head screw driver and pealed back the fabric (it was backed with thin cardboard and only glued around the edges.

I picked a beautiful floral upholstery fabric, I have been saving for awhile now, to recover the blank side of the cigar purse.  I put a thin layer of craft glue along the edge, let it dry completely with a heavy book on top to weigh it down, then replaced the metal corner

I wanted to dress it up a little more so I cut some black tulle and tied it to one side of the handle and added a vintage rose pin I found at an estate sale years ago.

Isn't it the cutest, sweetest little out-on-the-town purse you have ever seen.

Happy early Valentine's Day!!!!!!

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