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Wonderful!

Beautiful!

Maggie, this is such a lovely drawing and your colours are so rich, enjoy that bag.

Great composition! How did you do that wonderful surface on the purse? Looks so perfect.
Shirley
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I love this little sketch!

sweet sketch Maggie

Thanks for stopping by my photoblog. I enjoyed your comments. You like Shel Silverstein...I do too. I searched out a rare copy of "Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book". It's a hoot. It's a child's primer. I will never forget the letter E. He say's something like this... "E is for Ernie, a genie who lives in the ceiling. Ernie likes to eat eggs. Would you like to feed Earnie?" How funny is that?

I say, a button closure. I'm guessing you have a button collection, and I bet it has some really pretty vintage ones.

Claire:
You went to to the Designer Fabric Outlet without me? I looove that place. I have gotten the most delightful fabrics there.

Things are really progressing over there! That's great. Hope all is cleaned up and marvy for Christmas.

PS I was looking at that turquoise fabric in your previous post trying tho think where I have seen it before? I think we have the same ironing board cover ;)

Good on you for going for it! You've made a lot already and they're all very beautiful

I also plan to try to a christmas craft table this year which reminds me that I need to contact the women who organizes it.
I like the barkcloth fabric you chose for the messenger bag.
Did you order the iron in labels? If so, from whom did you order. Thanks

I live in the toronto area and wondered what craft sales you were planning on selling at?

The bag with the village on it is really cute!

here's a tip for sniping that someone taught me....
have 2 windows open. one of them just to keep refreshing the item. the other one, you have your bid already typed in and ready to click confirm. be sure you are on that very last confirm window. then just keep hitting refresh until the last 2 seconds. then quickly click ok. the only problem with this strategy is you have to know your absolute limit. because you won't have a second chance to enter another amount. just remember, you have to be in that second confirmation window when you have your amount in, not the first. hope that helps! :)

I like the scenic fabric. Hope you do well on your plan with the Christmas table.

wow u've been sewing up a storm! All the stuff looks great.

I'm making zippered pouches this year for Christmas gifts and your beautiful ones are so inspiring! Love those fabrics. And that circus bag is fabulous.

your pleated bags are wonderful! good luck with your craft sale.

I'm with Margaret! Where are you going to be? A local church? One of a Kind? Signatures? Wherever you sell I'm sure it will be a huge success. Please make sure to let us know so we can come support you!!

GORGEOUS BAGS!!! I love the barkcloth ones. I totally want that first messenger bag. Good luck with the sale!

I love these bags, I love your determination to make this business happen, and if I lived nearby I would come to your table and buy things from you....

love the simetry, great drawing

That's "lazy"?

Just awesome! You do such great art! I love it!

Great! Love the drawing.

If I ever visited you I feel like I'd recognize you just by the things to own! I love the way your sketches are a visual catalog of your life. I see you are in Wales. We have traveled there several time for hiking and to vist the storytelling festival at St. Donats. Have you ever been there? The setting is stunning.

Oooh i love it with the addition of color!

That's not lazy - that's GENIOUS! Twice as beautiful in color...

Thank you everyone.

I appreciate your comments so much. I feel like I've been out of the loop a bit as far as blogging goes over the last couple of weeks. Not got much drawing done and not been visiting all your fabulous sites. I'm planning on getting right back in over the weekend.

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How patient you are in your drawing! I try to slow down and then I get a bit excited and I exit - half-done!
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Beautifully rendered drawing!

Beautiful! I love the softness of your technique and the consistency of your style!

Cheers guys!

Wendy, I wish I was more like you in some ways - I never know when to stop!

Holy cow! That's unbelievable... I could stare at these for hours. Your details just stun me every time.

Don't worry Andrea, I'm sure many of us collect a lot of rubbish in our bags. Sometimes I just set an old one aside meaning to clean it out, but never get around to it (and don't use it again!). So, you're in good company . . .

This is one of my all time favorites of your drawings. What a challenge you gave yourself (on many levels!). Beautifully done and so fun to read all your notes written in and around the objects.

Amazing! Am having a great time examining every little thing!

Holy cow is right! I already spent a big chunk of time on it and i still have only deciphered a fragment of it. I love the composition, the treatment of the little shadows. You are stretching your art in a new direction with this, and the results are amazing.

What an amazingly wonderful drawing! (My solution to this problem was to buy a smaller bag. it forces me to clean it out more often.)

Now why didn't you turn this into a competition too? Great sketch and wonderful "stuff" coming out of your bag!
Your work is just amazing...it's good to be back and seeing what you do with ordinary every day items.
Ronell

What a fun drawing! I mean aside from great composition, treatment of the subject, flawless execution, and so on.

I love your site.

Claudia

Oh Andrea, more drawings I watch from you the more I like your style. They are all so patiently done and with such level of details... Unbelievable!

Holy bleep Andrea. I can't believe this post. I'm completly blown away. I came home thinking about drawing a page full of nothing but pistachios and of course you came to mind, so I came here to see what you'd been up to. I'm too stunned to even think about drawing now.... France is right - you are taking things to a whole new level and it's AMAZING.

Incredible work! I absolutely can not fathom how you can come up with such interesting drawings from everyday (if messy) items!! You are AMAZING!!

Fantastic work Andrea! Oh gosh, and it looks so familiar :)

Just stopped by, looking at your pictures, and MY GOD, they are beautiful!

things have been busy and i wanted to stop in and see what you've been up to because its always something incredible - OOOOO MI GOSH. hOW do You do it? its a wonder of a drawing and i'd give a lot to get inside your head someday and see whats going on in there! you see things in a marvelous way - you truly do. who else can come up with this stuff thats just your ordinary and turn it into an amazing drawing.

wow indeed. this is one of my all time andrea faves too. Great drawing, great rendering of such disarray. wonderful!!
(well, except for the fact that your clearly a slob...KIDDING!!!!!!)

Wow thanks everyone for all the kind comments. I'm really flattered - thanks.

This started out as a 'quick line drawing' of the contents of my bag. Actually, that's how most of my drawings start out. I long to do a line drawing but I never know when to stop. This one grew and grew and grew.

Hey, at least I'm not the only one who carries so much rubbish around with them! I'm in good company. Cheers!

Your line drawings just grow and grow indeed! Amazing that you can make a delightful composition of these details. I have posted - a couple of times - the contents of my bag - but I just upended the lot onto the scanner as a photo!
Yesterday I was at the bakers to buy some tasty delights and couldn't find my purse inside my shoulderbag - I had too many books and stuff. I did find it by taking out the books at the bus stop and my purse was there so I didn't have to walk home. But no coffee scrolls or apple pies!
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Wow, yours is the first bag I've seen that can compete with my friend Addie's:
http://adelaidebrown.blogspot.com/2007/06/baggage-i-dont-have-baggage.html

I absolutely love this drawing by the way!

Amazing work! I love your art. You make everyday stuff look incredible!

oh my oh my
you really do sketch dont you
that sketchy style is so soothing!
love it!

V e r y good, Andrea! ...and don't ask me what's im m y bag;-))

Thanks everyone,

Wendy, that is funny - you just open your bag out onto the scanner? Sound like an interesting (brave) idea, but I think I'd be picking off chewy and bits of tobacco for ever - and I don't even smoke! Where does that stuff come from?!

Suzanne, checked out Addie's post and yes it made me laugh.

I love doing drawings about bags and their contents - they always strike a chord with women everywhere!!

Cheers guys.

Wow, Andrea! I am in awe. I thought I put a lot of detail into drawing my wallet, but I would never draw what's in my purse. I'd be too overwhelmed. This is absolutely amazing. The detail and commitment to the subject. Way to go! BTW, I loved looking at he close-up and reading all your little comments.

LOL, what an incredibly tidy mess IYKWIM. an amazing drawing. x

wow simply stunning! i love the fabric.

ps i sold out recently and moved to brooklyn a month ago. ooops, but i lived in Long island city before. i f-ing represent!

this fabric completely fits with your art aesthetic!

This is SO cute!!! I love it muchly! ;) Great job!

Cheers,
Theresa

Very cute, good work :o)

I wish I could sew! Whenever I see your stuff, it makes me wonder if I could ever get the hang of it.

too presh!! i wish i could get to my sewing, i have bags of fabric waiting to be turned into something! Thanks so much for the inspiration, and darn it I'm too late for your penguin drawing! We saw your Cranium stuff in the lo-cal Toys R Us! Yay!

Wow, this came out really nice. I always wanted to make my own bag but I'm scared of messing it up! This post has given me a little extra confidence to try it :)

I love this bag! Made one on my own (with my mum's help) and it was just so satisfying and at the same time proud to carry it out for shopping! Do you make a lot of these bags? Do you sell them?

Jessica: thanks! I love making bags too...it is satisfying, isn't it? I don't sell them right now, but you never know in the future!

Wow, you made a fabulous bag! Did you enjoy taking the sewing class at Make? I have been thinking about taking a class there.

Wow, your sewing is really coming along then?! Thats simply terrific. Aw, I'm glad you've gotten to learn new tips and such. I wish I knew how to sew even the simplest of things. haha! I'm sure I'll get around to it someday...haha! In the meantime, I'm super excited for you. ;)

Well, this bag sure looks so super cute. What a terrific job you did. Keep it up!

Cheers,
Theresa

Wow, that's an incredible job!! What a nice bag!

Where on earth does a busy lady like you find the time to take a sewing class? GOOD for you!! :) :)

Oooh so lovely, that chicken is CUTE!! Pretty!!

I love it!! The pleats are adoarable. I wish I lived in a place with neat workshops and stuff. :)

I would like to add my "wow", it came out great!