#bag makeover

Today I was cleaning out the things I haven’t used for a while(its discomforting to say I’m a hoarder but yes I am) in a good way though I’m big on gifts and things like that moving on you do not want me started on my chronicles of gift hoarding as I call it but anyway story for another day, so back to sorting out things I pull out this bag which was given to me by a friend before she changed towns, as I said earlier I’m big on gifts so definitely I held on to the bag and I really loved it but as you know cold areas really have a way of dealing with our bags and that is exactly how my bag died :-( ,it had scratches and cracked I tried fixing with paint but it lasted only for a short while until I finally kept it aside and it skipped my mind only till about today when I found it in a pretty bad shape but I was determined to keep it which brings us to our DIY of today giving a total makeover :-) 

Things you will need;

scissors, I  used three different sizes big, medium and small

some thread and needle, I got denim thread

a pair of old jeans

a sponge

a foot scrub or a nail file

pile of newspapers

a paint brush

some fabric glue

and finally the bag we want to make over.

First we create our workspace and cover with newspapers to avoid glue destroying our property

Place the bag on the work surface and smoothen the edges using a foot scrub or nail file

Place the old pair of jeans and cut out the legs carefully pace the bag on it and outline leave out some extra inches to be able to fold it do this for all sides and cut out

At this point you cut out the extra fabric to cover up the hands or you could just get a new handle but I decided to stay original and stick to the handles and cover up

 The fun part Yayy!!!! lather up glue to the bad using a brush, carefully outline the denim on the bag and smoothen the edges with your hands. At this point u need to exercise patience it took some time for my glue to get dry do this for all sides one at a time

After finishing with the bag I did the hands this was a little bit tricky I experienced a lot of difficulties here first of all I had to glue the front and back separately and cut of the extra my denim started fraying at the edges I tried to fix it by sewing the edges but after no progress I decided frayed edges will be  more fun  and also I had to come up with a new strap because the original strap became really small

So to finish of I used a blade and really small scissors to cut out the are for the zip and also one of the hands were attached to a buckle which I didn’t want to hide and my bag is done!

At the end of this DIY I decided to throw in a couple of bag accessories to alter the look of the bag I went with edgy and floral vibes

And this pretty much sums my DIY and revamping for today cant wait to head out and show off my bag,

Please I’ll love to get feedback from you and also requests. Till the next DIY ……

XOXO- Amy