Candy (Snack) Bag Pouch

As many of you had noticed, I love taking completely useless things you would normally throw out and transforming it into something useful!

I'm sure many of you enjoying eating sweets and snacks, right? Have you ever thought of what you could do with the bag once you've finished devouring the treat? How about a pouch to store miscellaneous items? It is also a great way to help the Earth by being environmentally friendly!

Here is a collection of Japanese plum candy bags I've collected over the months from a generous donor. Any candy bag or chip bag will do. I decided to use four bags: two bags for each side of the pouch. This will also depend on the thickness of the bag as well, but I would recommended to go no further than two bags for each side (it will be too hard to put things into the pouch due to the thickness).



This project does require a sewing machine because manual labor is going to put your hands into a world of fatigue! You can try using a glue gun or E6000 craft glue, but I'm not sure how well that will work. You will also need to purchase a zipper which can be found at any craft/fabric store.



I decided to use find a video tutorial on how to sew on the zipper as it it difficult to explain in writing. The tutorial I found on youtube does a great job of explaining how I sewed on the zipper.

Click here for video

After completing the pouch, I decided to use Japanese packaging tape to "decorate"/hide the rips on candy bags.



This is what the final product looks like! This would also be a great alternative to put these bags to use instead of throwing them away to sit in land fills.



I also provided a snapshot of the inside just for viewing purposes.



Thanks for reading and please tell me what you think! :)

Flower Brooch

This is a handmade flower brooch constructed from scrap fabric, buttons and charms fastened to an alligator clip.

I don't have any process photos because I was too absorbed into this mini-project. :P However, I do plan on making another in the near future and I will provide a small tutorial!

Good eats and travels in San Diego

Weekend post from last week! Funny how I'm posting about last weekend when the weekend is already here! By the way, there were way too many pictures and I'm lazy, so I decided to collage them.

Four words for you: Good.Eats.and.Travels. :)

Day 1:

Nozomi
4150 Regents Park Row Ste 190
La Jolla, CA 92037

• Spicy green noodles
  
• Bulgogi
• Katsu Curry
  

Day 2

San Diego Natural History Museum
1788 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101


Balboa Park
1549 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101


Seaport Village
849 W Harbor Dr
San Diego, CA 92101


Bud's Louisiana Cafe
4320 Viewridge Ave Ste A
San Diego, CA 92123

• New Orleans BBQ Shrimp Po Boy
  Sauteed shrimp in our spicy BBQ blend with garlic, Worcestershire, and butter served with shredded cabbage and jalapeno tartar sauce

Day 3

Cafe on Park
3831 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92103

• Scramble #9: smoked chicken, sundried tomato pesto, onions, spinach & mozarella cheese
• Pancake: buttermilk & blackberry
• Crab cake Benny: Grilled french bread topped with a crab cake, asparagus, and two basted eggs covered with chili hollandaise sauce (best dish we ate!)
  

Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
4002 Wallace St
San Diego, CA 92110

• I wasn't able to take many photos while I was here because I was too busy shopping! I did the most shopping here out of all the places I visited.
  
• Old rustic town filled with vintage finds, handmade goods with a exception of your everyday tourist items
  

p.s.: I'm going to have my very first giveaway soon, so stayed tuned!

There aren't enough Jiraffes on Urth

Iced Coffee and Fresh Lemonade


Panini Roasted Turkey (Urth butter roasted turkey breast with Jarlsberg Swiss cheese, grilled to perfect on a poppy seed crusted honey wheat bread & served with small green salad and whole grain mustard sauce.)

Urth Cafe
2327 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405





JiRaffe
502 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Sorry for the dark photos, but I had forgotten my camera that day and my phone camera has no flash. Although not pictured we had the Prime Caramelized Pork Chop (long grain wild rice, smoked bacon, spiced apple chutney, aged cider sauce). The boyfriend claims it was one of the best dishes he's ever eaten!

Charm/Jewlery Case Reconstruction

The perks of cleaning your room every so often is magically finding random things that you “thought” you lost. Before I begin, let me share a little something. Buying watches are one of my many obsessions and you can imagine that over the years of buying them, I've accumulated many watch boxes. I recently rediscovered this box and decided to perform a reconstruction.

Here is a Roxy watch box that I wanted to throw out, but figured that I should put practical use to it instead. Although the process is not photographed, I used black acrylic craft paint. I know it wasn't a wise choice to use because the paint isn't going to hold on well but I didn't want to spend money buying more materials. :)

I found the box quite dull and decided to decorate it. I used the backing of a border sticker (that I was going to throw away) and glued it on to the box.

Here is the final product, finished and ready to use!

Please tell me what you think and thanks for looking!