True Blue Me & You: Doable Unique DIYs

DIY Designer Inspired Minaudieres Tutorials from Bromeliad. I’ve posted lots of tutorials for Minaudieres here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/minaudiere. The DIY versions are generally made out of glasses’ cases and are fun and cheap to make. These are versions from Bromeliad (clockwise from upper left):

• Kate Spade Inspired Minaudiere here.
• Calvin Klein Inspired  Minaudiere here.
• Betsey Johnson Inspired Minaudiere here (with eyelashes).
• Ralph Lauren Inspired Minaudiere here.

DIY Bag to Backpack Tutorial from Sincerely, Kinsey here. Cute idea to personalize and then convert a plain cheap tote bag  into a lightweight backpack.

DIY Inspiration: Bag Lights Using LED Battery Tea Lights - so you don’t burn down your house (like these here - no affiliate link). Photos: Bagalights made out of cardboard and paper, designed by Fry&Fry and for sale by LiquiShop here. *First seen at If It’s Hip, It’s Here.

A Roundup of Roundups of Hundreds of Bags, Totes and Purses Tutorials. In response to marupload’s question about tutorials for bags, specifically totes (but not huge) and maybe lunch bag size. Here is a list of hundreds of bags:

1. Roundup of over 100 bags - truly mind boggling number and every type under the sun! (Squidoo) here. *Photo: Sonya Syle - made out of a map here.
2. Roundup of 6 Lunch Bags (Sew, Mama, Sew!) here. *Photo: A Lemon Squeezy Home 
3. Roundup of 39 Bags of all Shapes and Sizes (Frugal and Thriving) here. *Photo: mmmcrafts 
4. Roundup of 12 Free Bag and Purses Tutorials (How About Orange) here. *Photo: Melissa Esplin
5. Roundup of 9 Different Bags (How About Orange) here. *Photo: Artsy Crafty Babe
6. Roundup of 6 Bags - picked because of the “one hour bag” pictured (Cactus and Olive) here. *Photo: Skip to My Lou
7. Roundup of 10 Recycled Sweater Bags (A Sewing Journal) here. A few of the links are broken, but wonderful inspiration. *Photo: A Lemon Squeezy Home
8. Roundup of lots and lots of bags broken into small, med. and large bags. Not a lot of photos (Whipup) here. *Photo: noodle head
9. THE ULTIMATE SITE: Free Purse, Bag & Tote Patterns and Tutorials here. Click on “gallery” to see 100s of tutorial from around the web. *Photo: Sew4home

DIY No Sew Pillowcase Tote. Really clever. Tutorial from Creme de la Craft here.  

DIY Free Paper Hermes Jige Clutch. Top Photo: Small Good Things. I posted Emi’s tutorial on this a few months ago and a link to her “how to wax paper” to make these paper clutches even more amazing here. Bottom Photo: Hermes here. But …Love Maegan just came out with a post with direct links to the six PDF downloads of the bags which is nice because I had a hard time finding them on the Hermes site. Link to ….Love Maegan here.