Fashion Sin

I have learnt my lesson about teasing other peoples fashion choices and I'm going to share that with you. The above bag was meant to be a joke! My aunt Trisha is crazy and a total magpie for handbags. On a few occasions we have had to pull her screaming from shops or pry the ugliest bags made, out of her hands. So to tease her for what I ignorantly believed to be bad fashion sense I decided to make her a really ugly bag for her birthday. 

I went to Pennys in the omni centre and bought the navy bag, then I went mad in the accessorise dept buying crazy coloured necklaces for the straps. Next on my shopping trail was the Arts and Hobby store where I bought glitter glue, fabric roses and butterflies. I went home and got to work. The idea I had was to make a bag so disgustingly OTT that she would get a giggle from it.

My poor OH Mic was totally confused when I started to stick it together, I hadn't told him it was a joke present so when I started drawing glitter diamonds and shouting "I need ore tacky stickers", He was bit confused. He was trying to be diplomatic and not ask "What the hell are you doing". Anyway i was finally finished and thought it looked tacky enough and sent a photo to my mother for her to giggle. To which she replied "You know she may like it"... oops

The day finally arrived to hand over the gift and My mother was right, My Aunt loved it. Absolutely loved it. As in she wanted to wear it outside... in public. 

I was shocked, did she not realise this was (excuse my french) a piss take????

 But you know what was the best bit, she loved it coz I went to loads of different shops, planned it for ages, spent hours gluing and sticking to make her laugh. Just like you'd love your kids weird drawings she loved it coz I made it for her. So thats the end of my teasing other fashion choices, she looked past me teasing her and saw the good intention behind so I guess i should do the same. 

Entirely unique, extremely colourful, crazy and fabulous, I think that describes the bag and Trisha