Fixin Handbags!

Wow, my leather cleaner is fantastic and word is getting out about how well it works.
www.lovinmybags.com is not your ordinary cleaner and I am not your ordinary leather buff! Designer, leather repairer and product creator....hahaha...as long as it has to do with leather, I am involved!!

Well I will be back...lots to do and little time...as usual!!

Handbag Designs

OK...today I am trying to figure out, how much time I have before I have to get another job to support myself...this starving artist thing is really getting me down...but the love of what I am doing has been going on for over 12 years and doesn't die...so I move on.

I would like to know what interesting ideas for handbags is out there among consumers...Basically a bag is a bag except for the shape, the choice of material , the workmanship and hardware that create the original...But the original always seems to get copied and very quickly what was original is now common...

That's why I keep going with this project, because I actually control the leather print and color, that no one can duplicate...so when I create a bag it is and always will be "an original" ...yeah!!! That's why I keep going...I can offer what no one else can offer....that makes me feel real GOOD!

Here are some interesting shapes I want to print leather for:







Elegant and sleek...perfect for a contemporary print accented by pebbly leather in a constrating color. I can add 22K gold leather as a sophisticated feature...uhm where would I put it?? Maybe a gold inlay with pierced leather matching the print...would that be too busy? I would have to see it....








With this Deco Tote I want to work with interesting hardware and create interest with the detailing. Very sleek design that can have a very interesting look with tone on tone patterning...maybe even gloss and matt design with contrasting plain colored leather...I am thinking pattent leather...oh yeah...I'm lovin this one!!




For the not so square, this is a great bag style...very elegant and rich looking. A paisley pattern over 22K gold for a luminous sexy look...the hardware would have to be gems...absolutely smashing...as they say!!!






Well, I have to say I really like this blogging thing...I can get my ideas up and out of my head...and maybe if I am lucky someone will make some comments that can be helpful...hopefully !!

Until tomorrow, I continue my design journey...tata!

Gilded 22K Leather bags

I have just finished perfecting hand gilded 22K gold leather for handbags. With the cost of GOLD you know these will be "pricy" and "priceless". I have deigned a "clutch" Collection all hand made in Italy with this brilliant 22K leather...just amazing.

I found a great manufacturer in Italy who works very closely with me on all my projects. It has produced bags for Ferragamo, Gucci and Furla...to name a few.
What a great opportunity for some original exclusive and elegant bags.





Here is my first prototype...retailing for $5000...if you want one before they hit the market ..I will sell them for $1500...real 22K gold hand gilded made in Italy...woohoo!! They are boxed in satin lined boxes with a certificate of authenticity, numbered and signed by me...Designer Barbara Hamel :-)




When I create a 22K Handbag Collection for daytime, the 22K gilded leather will be accents...
WOW, I can see them now....get me to a drawing board...
I will update you on my drawings...moving right along....

Lovin Leather and Handbags

I admit I am a leather lover. I love everything leather! Tasteful leather..

1. Leather handbags
2. Leather coats
3. Leather jackets
4. Leather pants
5. Leather car interior
6. Leather chairs
7. Leather sofas
8. Leather table tops
9. Gilded leather
10. Printed leather

Yes...Leather. I love leather so much, I started a leather repair and restoration business...(I have developed the best leather care product for handbags... only 25 years in the making!!) Even unfinished leathers can be cleaned with this product... Check it out at www.lovinmybags.com ... ( this stuff can also be used on leather jackets and furniture, of course!)

With my passion for leather always growing I decided to create beautiful "designer" leather with hand printing ( what better canvas than leather??) Beautiful printed leather like nothing I have ever seen...incredible depth of colors and textures ..Just stunning ( if I do say so myself!!) Comments however where not so positive..."Who wants to have print on leather?" "Leather is made to be plain!"...Well, well, well look around ...now there is all kinds of printed leather (lousy prints...but prints none the less)

I have now designed leather furniture with my printed leather (I have a $12,000 chair in printed leather on hand painted, hand carved wood frame from Italy...stunning and original!!! I really need to sell it...hahaha) and currently I am designing handbags...once again original in leather and in design... www.boldhandbags.com .

Eventually, I plan to add beautiful leather jackets to coordinate with the handbags...
Oh yeah Baby!!! Leather designs...Barbara's Original Leather Designs....BOLD... Yahoo!!!

Yes, I am a Designer and with a post graduate in Marketing Management. I am an Entrepreneur and a Mother of four. Yummy mummy!!....(some may say!)

I am having fun ....but the journey has been long and I have a long way to go....!!!

I hope blogging my journey will keep me going through the hardest time...no more money, no more time and too much invested to slow down....eek!!