Coffee Sack Curtains~Valances

Have you checked out these burlap coffee sacks? They are so incredibly spectacular!

I love the way the vintage burlap coffee sacks are intact: not cut into at all. 

No cutting, no sewing....

Just some draping and tying.

Soooooo fun!  So simple!

So spectacular!

This is really a FABULOUS project. Very very nice!!!

Made by Jay and Melissa.

Love 'um!

:-) Crystelle

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To view additional coffee or potato sack curtains, please follow this link.

Potato Sacks are available right here.  

Burlap Curtains {Coffee Sack Style}

Potato sack curtains are the ultimate in cozy rural home country charm.

These burlap curtains {made out of genuine coffee sacks} are just amazing and fabulous and PERFECT!!!

They look adorable on the outside....

And they look charming on the inside!
Burlap sacks are so much fun!!!

Wow!

A very successful art and sewing project by Fairophelia
I love it!
Nice work, Angela!
:-) Crystelle

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To view additional coffee or potato sack curtains, please follow this link.
Potato Sacks are available right here

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Burlap Sack Shabby Journal

I am just totally in love!!!!

Check out how CUTE cute CUTE these shabby burlap sack journals are!They are made by Rebecca Sower.

Visit her blog for some inspiration and great photography!

Nice work, Rebecca!

Crystelle

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Burlap Wreath on the Front Door

Is there a better way to welcome people to your home but by using burlap?
I think NOT!!!!! hahaha!!

Alisa from the Tidy Nest made this wonderful burlap wreath to welcome her quests as they come to her front door. I think she did GREAT!!!

Nice work, Alisa!
Crystelle

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Burlap Boutique Purse in Orange

Here it is: an ORANGE Ginny Potato Purse!The Ginny Famous Potato Purse has long been a Crystelle Handbags favorite, and here it shows up again....

The Ginny Famous Potato Purse is so much work to make, but then when you are finally done, you sit back and look it over, and you realize that it is just such a happy cheerful little bag you just can't help but smile..... :) .... BIG!!!! :D

• This particular Ginny Handbag has CUTE cheerful orange lining (which Leslie picked out....)...
  
• This Burlap Potato Sack Purse is for my friend Leslie's birthday. (today!!!!)
  


• She happens to be going on a 23 mile run on her birthday!
  

Good for her! Go Leslie!!!! :-)
Crystelle

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Crystelle Handbags and Crystelle Boutique

The Famous PotatoPurse was first created by designer Marijke Mill of Crystelle Handbags.
She combined her love for potatoes and designing into the burlap potato sack handbag {aka the Potato Purse}.


Christmas 2008, the website "CrystelleHandbags" was launched. It featured several different designs of bags, all made out of genuine Idaho Potato Sacks.

Marijke was quite surprised at how fast her business took off! People loved the Famous Potato Purse and ordered them by the dozens!!! She got busy cutting and sewing and cutting and sewing. Soon she realized that she couldn't keep up and desperately needed help! Some fabulous "sewing girls" came to the rescue and things started to become a bit more manageable.....The growth of the business was AMAZING!!!!!

And Marijke learned a few things along the way!

1. Running a business takes up a LOT of time {away from the children, I am embarrassed to admit}
   
2. At the end of the year she was NOT profitable.... shockingly! {especially considering how busy she and the "sewing girls" had been...!}
3. Her favorite part of the business was the DESIGNING of new patterns.....

So when the new year 2010 came around, she rededicated her business to pattern design, and renamed it Crystelle Boutique

It has been a lot of fun to dedicate her energy to design, and if people still want potato purses, they can make them themselves using the patterns and the potato sacks that are for sale at her EtsyBoutique.

And that's the story, and I'm sticking to it!
Crystelle

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Crystelle Boutique is the parent company of Crystelle Handbags

Fun Potato Bag Sewing Patterns and Genuine Potato Sacks are available at EtsyPotatoBoutique

Chic Haute Potato Bag (aka PotatoSackPurse)

Hello Blogging Buddies! I made another Melissa Handbag!

I love this easy to sew pattern. And the bag always turns out so fun and great.

Exciting! This bag WANTS to go out on the town!

This very bag and the pattern is available for free at the main website:  CrystelleBoutique

See you there! Have a fantastically happy day!

Crystelle

The Melissa pattern is a creation of Crystelle Handbags

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Potato Sack Handbag/Purse/Bag with Rosettes

This famous potato sack bag is available for purchase right now at the Etsy Boutique.
Made out of true Idaho genuine potato sacks!


Run on over there to grab it before someone else does!









Don't you just love burlap rosettes....?????
:)Crystelle















July 2012:
The Melissa Handbag sewing pattern is now a free download.

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Burlap Rosettes are the HOT thing to make {and EASY too!}

I just love the way burlap rosettes look. I want to add them to ALL my sewing projects now!

And the good news is that they are just easy schmeezey to make!

In the picture I added some burlap rosettes to this Melissa Famous Potato Sack Purse.



Good Times!
Happy Sewing!
Crystelle

Update, July 2012:
The Melissa Handbag Pattern is now a FREE download

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Cover Your Chair in Burlap Feedsack

Another example of a fun chair covered with a feed-sack.
Love it!
Crystelle












Thank you Tara, for spotting it!

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Bulap Wreath with Rosettes

This wreath was made by Jenn from Redberry Barn
I absolutely love the way it turned out.

















Jenn is very skilled at folding rosettes as you can see. And she is a talented wreath-maker, to say the least!
Way to go!
Crystelle

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Burlap Sack Skirt for the Piano Bench {Great Sewing Idea!!! }

I believe this is a skirt someone has made to go on a "table" which seems to look like a piano bench.... ?!?

Wow!!! What will they think of next....?
I think it looks very shabby and rural Paris chic...
....I guess...

Or maybe more farmer chic....
It's great!
Crystelle

Tara photographed it.... She has a fabulous eye for unique burlap finds.... Thanks Tara!!!!! :)

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Sew a Burlap Potato Sack Bib Apron

A customer of mine made this apron from a potato sack she got from me. Isn't it so funny!!!!
Tami is so talented!

She suggests that this would make a wonderful Bridal Shower gift for your shabby daughter or friend! I think she's right!
Please be careful with washing it, though....!!!! You may want to just spot-clean it only.....

Great sewing, Tami! Great idea!
If you would like to bring this apron home, or other items similar to it, please visit Tami's Etsy shop right here.

Happy Sewing!
Crystelle

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Burlap Wreath Craft

This burlap wreath is so fabulous!

I just love it!

I can't wait to make one out of potato sack scraps!

Crystelle

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The picture came from Creative Little Daisy

Christmas Tree Decorate with Idaho Burlap

Wow!
I know it's the middle of summer, but this natural rustic looking Christmas tree deserves some of our attention!

Burlap instead of ribbon! What a brilliant idea!
I just absolutely love it!
Crystelle

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Freckles Chick posted this picture

Idaho Potato Sack Gift Wrap

A genuine potato sack makes the very best way to wrap a present in love!
A great gift-wrap!
Crystelle

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The picture came from here

Lovely Recovered Burlap Headboard

Check out this AMAZING headboard that Tara found at "Farm Chicks" in Spokane Washington.

How much fun is that!

Look at all those upholster buttons! Incredible!
Crystelle

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Make a Wonderful Haute Potato Headboard

,Now this is the BEST, most creative Haute Potato headboard I've ever seen!

Beauty and burlap combined at its best!
I love what the designers at C&C came up with for creative decorative use of Haute Potato burlap sacks!
They covered a headboard with them! This design just really POPS for me.
What wonderful contrast of the clean dark-colored wall and the crisp white sheets with the rugged and rustic burlap and print.
NICE WORK!!! This would definitely look very good in YOUR bedroom!!! Uh-huh!
Crystelle

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Require your own genuine potato sacks from Idaho right here...

Simple Uncomplicated Burlap as Upholstery Fabric

Burlap is quickly becoming a highly desired textured spotlight. I have been fascinated with genuine potato sacks for some years now and am thrilled to see how burlap is now being used as an upholstery fabric. It gives a simple, uncomplicated feel, perfect for contrasting with more classic pieces. It creates a relaxed yet refined look....
I think it just TERRIFIC!!! Looks good in any decor style!
Crystelle

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Amazing Burlap Chair

This AMAZING burlap chair was featured in the November 2009 issue of Canadian House and Home
:)
Crystelle

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Chair Barrymoree; fabrics, Designer Fabrics. Photo by Michael Graydon.