Potato Sack Chic

This totally fabulous clutch {made from a potato sack from Idaho} is so much fun!

A true Crystelle Handbags Original

• I love the shabby chic feel to it!
  
• For more pictures of this purse, please visit our Potato Boutique Blog.
  
• Now pay attention, because this totally fab potato sack clutch is a free giveaway right now!
  

  Check it out at LindsayBlogs!

Make your own potato sack clutch with a genuine potato sack from here....!!! Guaranteed to elicit a LOT of compliments!

Crystelle Handbags and Crystelle Boutique

Crystelle Handbags: Home of the famous PotatoPurse

Crystelle Boutique is the parent company of Crystelle Handbags

Fun Potato Bag Sewing Patterns and Genuine Potato Sacks are available at EtsyPotatoBoutique

Great Idaho Gift Ideas for Great Idaho Teachers...

My daughter insisted that her teacher loved Idaho and pillows, so her teacher thank-you gift was an Idaho Potato Sack Pillow!

Her teacher was pretty excited.

The assistants and student teachers ended up with "Hot Potato Mitts...."

Oven Mitts made out of genuine potato sacks

Make Great Thanks You Gifts for Great Teachers

A bag makes a great teacher gift.

Or a tote, or a handbag, or a messenger-bag, or a purse.... Anyway, you get the idea!



It's that time of year again: end of the school-year, and all of a sudden we are all scrambling to give our children's teachers something meaningful to show our appreciation for taking good care of our children during the school-year....
Teachers are always carrying around lots of stuff to and from school. You may as well make it a bit easier for her/him with a fun bag or tote. If it is cute and personalized, so much the better!
For fourth grade teachers I always recommend an Idaho Potato Sack Bag, as they teach Idaho history. (if you don't live in Idaho that would not apply, of course...)
Have fun sewing! Crystelle Boutique {aka Crystelle Handbags} has some fun and easy to sew patterns available on the Potato Boutique Etsy shop.


Or how about a Washington Onion Bag for teachers in Washington?



And then for the perfect gift for the motivating fifth grade teacher who diligently taught our kids about recycling, how about the ultimate re-purposed bag out of a banner....?



What other ideas can you come up with?
Enjoy thanking your kids' teachers for the great things they contribute to our lives....

How to Make a Burlap Rose

Easy instructions on how to fold a burlap rose like those shown
on the Ronda Purse in Haute Handbags Spring 2010.

These and other instructions are available when you
click right here to go to Tutorial Boutique

Find the matching SO easy SEW patterns
at the Potato Boutique

Thanks for visiting!!!

Potato Sack Purse with Orange Print: Warning: VERY cute!

Here it is: an ORANGE Ginny Potato Purse!The Ginny Famous Potato Purse has long been a Crystelle Handbags favorite, and here it shows up again....

The Ginny Famous Potato Purse is so much work to make, but then when you are finally done, you sit back and look it over, and you realize that it is just such a happy cheerful little bag you just can't help but smile..... :) .... BIG!!!! :D

• This particular Ginny Handbag has CUTE cheerful orange lining (which Leslie picked out....)...
  
  
• This Burlap Potato Sack Purse is for my friend Leslie's birthday. (today!!!!)
  

• She happens to be going on a 23 mile run on her birthday! Good for her! Go Leslie!!!! :-)
  
  

View more pictures of this cute potato sack purse right here

Fun Potato Sack Handbag

I made another Melissa Handbag!

I love this easy to sew pattern. And the bag always turns out so fun and great.

Exciting! This bag WANTS to go out on the town!

This very bag and the pattern (and other bag sewing patterns) are available right now in the Potato Boutique....

See you there! Have a fantastically happy day!

The Melissa pattern is a creation of Crystelle Handbags

Fabulous Sewing Patterns

Cute Home Made Storage Basket

This storage bag is the perfect size to contain all the remotes that are always laying around in the living room. The name "CrystelleHandbags" typically denotes purses and bags to carry around, but a container that looks like a potato sack bag and just sits around, holding your precious items is JUST as useful, and just as much fun!

I know these pictures have been taken outside....but....

it looks good inside the house too...!!!! believe it or not.....

I love it....

Isn't it adorable?

Make a Burlap Rose Instructions

Easy instructions on how to fold a burlap rose,

like those shown on the Ronda Purse
in Haute Handbags Spring 2010.

These and other instructions are available when you
click right here to go to Tutorial Boutique

Find the matching SO easy SEW patterns
at the Potato Boutique

Thanks for visiting!!!

Potato Sack Style Window Covering

Hello there.... :-)

Well, the laundry-room has been begging for my attention for some time,

And today was his {her...? its....} lucky day.....

I finally hung a very stylish Idaho-Style valance featuring TWO potato sacks....

And the very best news....:

No sewing was involved....

Does it get any better than that...??????

I am very happy with them.... What do you think..???