Lil' Darlin's Must-Have of the Week

My, my, my, it has been quite a while since I've blogged. Funny, because I have had so much to blog about. Work wise, that is. I guess I've spent far too many hours in the workshop and at venues than on the internet, but that's a good thing, right? I know, I need a balance. Ok, enough about the boring stuff, on to the merch. I had never worked with vinyl before, as it's thickness had deterred me, until one day I decided to reupholster our 1950's dinette chairs (3 down, 1 to go, needs rechroming, but I digress). After working with vinyl, might I say, I have a new found fabric that I simply adore. Then one day, I opened my worn makeup brush rollup case and thought "this black leather is SO boring. I need to make a custom one." And then it hit me! Why not make my OWN customized vinyl makeup bag (out of the leftover chair vinyl....waste not want not!) with an added twist. See, I have this favorite cake eyeliner that I tote w/ me when I travel and sometimes leave it in my travel bag and forget about it until I use it again at home. Well, switching it from one place to another becomes a nuisance, so why not store it WITH my brushes? No, really, why not? And with that, the Maven's Glam Bag was born. Yes, I'm well aware that makeup mavens around the country own a large amount of makeup brushes and would probably need a 5 foot roll up bag (wow, that's a lot of vinyl!). But for those times when you can't take your 4 cases of makeup and 3 containers of brushes, why not consolidate them into some actual essentials to take with as well as show off your style? The Maven's Glam Bag can hold 2 powder or blush brushes and has compartments for 7 smaller *dimension brushes. There's an inside top flap to cover over the brushes to protect from outside ickiness and 2 metal magnetic clips that hold it closed quite nicely. The inner fabric is adorable (you'll recognize them from the Dannas) and protected by clear, easy to wipe vinyl.

On the outside is the attached makeup bag which matches the inside fabric as well. It can hold (depending on the size of the case) a small powder compact, lipstick, mascara and other things essential to the beautification of a woman on the go, all secured by a 6" zipper. Did I mention the outside is gorgeous, glittery vinyl (insert girlish giggle here)?

Each Bag retails at $25.00 (plus tax if you're ordering from CA). At that price, why not buy 2? If you're interested, please place your order on the Lil Darlin Accessories page on Facebook. *makeup brush note: instead of buying pricey makeup brushes from makeup counters, why not purchase art brushes? They are just as great as the ones from the makeup stores, yet are less expensive Note: pictured here is Rose Tattoo 4 You on Lipstick Sparkle Vinyl

Please, forgive my virgin blog

I really never planned on creating a blog, but here I am. I thought I would know what to say but now that I'm sitting in front of my computer, I have no clue. Funny, because I'm normally good at random rants and utter nothingness.

An introduction, I guess.

I'm a stay-at-home mom. Almost a year ago a friend of mine asked me if I wanted to sell at The Hootenanny, an all day rockabilly/psychobilly show. I had nothing to sell, not even a name to sell under. But I thought it would be cool, so I told her I would. A couple weeks later, after thinking about it, I decided that we really weren't ready for that kind of event, so I told her that we should skip that year's event & sell at the following year. Here we are, a year later & I am ready to sell there.

I picked out a name for my company, got the necessary legal stuff out of the way & Lil' Darlin' Accessories was born. I made items that I wanted to wear in patterns that I loved. I made my own patterns, created my own molds. I am a creative individual who just wanted to make things that I thought others would appreciate.

Here I am, a year almost to the day later, setting up a blog about my business. I have my own website, I set up at car & music shows. I meet cool customers & awesome fellow vendors. I am truly blessed.

So, that's it in a rather big nutshell. Keep an eye out for future shows, new products & just randomness. It's what I do best.