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velvet handbag with leopard pattern folds

Tiger Lily Velvet Handbag

1 January 2014
by Mala Mare in
This is Tiger Lily. The kitty handbag. I am wishing you a happy new year with it! Let it be healthy and happy! Be like cats: cuddly and determined, elegant and playful, tame and wild, sociable and independent, benefactors and teachers of beauty of life to your humans! :-) Love, Mare I made [...]
upcycled blue jeans handbag

Rockette, Upcycled Blue Jeans Handbag

10 August 2013
by Mala Mare in ,
  My friend has many faces: a mother, a wife, an MD, dance lover… this is just the beginning. Rock chick is one of her faces too. And what does a rock chic do with her favorite blue jeans? She wears them until they fall apart. Until they they are torn, until those torn areas can be elegantly [...]
Formal velvet and satin handbags

Velvet and Satin Formal Handbags

1 May 2013
by Mala Mare in
It happens occasionally that I work on a bag, then just put it aside for a while. And then I start to work on something else. And than on something else again… So two weeks ago, trying to bring some order to current projects, I noticed that I’ve got three handbags in different phases of work: One [...]
Brown velvet clutch bag with bat hand embroidery evening bag

Velvet Bats

26 December 2012
by Mala Mare in ,
Photo source: Kuća Kallina | Facebook. Bats – where from, why? There is an Art Nouveau building at the junction of Masarykova and Gundulićeva streets in Zagreb. It is called Kuća Kallina (Kallina House). The building has been built 1903-04 for industrialist Josip Kallina, it was designed by the [...]
Blue velvet evening clutch bag elegant

His Highness the Velvet

16 December 2012
by Mala Mare in ,
Luxurious evening bags have been on my idea and wish list for a long time, but somehow other things make their place to the top of the list most of the times. Maybe it is the time of the year that finally made me dug through my stash of fabrics to see what have I actually got there of luxurious [...]
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