Posted on April 3, 2008 - by Chezlin

My first post and new travel set.

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This is my first official post since this blog was created, and I’m oh so excited. I hope you guys like it!

I decided to make a travel set the other day after being inspired to make a straightener cozy by gatheringtwigs over on Craftster.

Here’s everything together:

Forgive me for the dirty mirror, I was too excited to take pictures that I didn’t think to clean it up first!

Here’s my straightener cozy, I made it with an oven mitt that should have been thrown away years ago:

Here’s a progress shot that shows the poor worn out oven mitt.(I seam-ripped around it, it wasn’t in that bad of shape, it was just burned a little.)

Here’s the finished product with the straightener tucked inside.

After I made that I decided I needed a new makeup bag, and I had plenty of the outside fabric left over. I remember seeing a tutorial somewhere on Craftster about the same kind of style of makeup bag that I was going for, but I don’t remember where it is so I had to kind of wing this one. I’ll probably write up and post a small tutorial in a few days. For now, here’s some pictures.

Here it is, all zipped up with stray threads hanging out everywhere. I promise I cut those off after I took these pictures!

Here it is, opened.

After I finished the bag, I decided I wanted to make one last thing to make it a complete set. I ended up using a cubicle mirror I had gotten from a mystery box I purchased at American Science and Surplus. (Great store, you should check them out) I cut a piece of fabric to size, sewed up the sides , fit the mirror in and glued it in place. I wish I had taken more pictures of the progress of the mirror, but I wasn’t even sure if it was going to work at all! Perhaps I’ll draw it out and post a tutorial for it along with the makeup bag.