My New iPhone Case

I've been wanting to make a leather iPhone case forEVER, but it wasn't at the top of the list, you know? I mean, I had this one I made last year:

And it was OK--nicely padded, with some beads. But the re-felted wool was starting to get fuzz balls on it, which always creeps me out. Plus wool + West Texas Summer = icky AND depressingly hot.

So I realized that the way to make myself make time to do this was to make a tutorial out of it for my blog over at CreateMixedMedia.com. So that's what I did. Here's the finished case,

and here's where you can read more about the process--the first part is here, and the second part is here.

In case you don't want to go there (although I can't imagine why), here are some more shots:

I cannot WAIT to make another one. Not just like this, of course. But using what I learned about the leather and the tin heart and stuff. I can't even tell you how satisfying this was. I'm going to try to write a post about the process, about why I loved it so much. Keep your fingers crossed for me, please, that the project I'm working on today works out smoothly and that I get the videos done for CMM and that I then have time to write about it. And I'll keep mine crossed for you that your day goes super smoothly, too~~XO