Girly pocket bag - what I made

 Here's what I sent to Lisa for our pocket bag swap:

 I had this vision of just layering a bunch of lace on it. Of course when I got done, I realized I had kinda killed the bag, because I couldn't open the bag to full capacity. Oops. I feel like I'm kinda inundating her with lace, I will try not to use lace on the next thing I make her. The middle part you'll be able to see much better on the next photo. On top of the middle, I added pink velvet ribbon and a tiny piece of bling from some vintage jewelry. I also made that a pocket. I should have taken a picture of this without all the goodies. Aside from the doily peeking out, I'm not exactly sure how I decorated the top. On the way top of the bag, I put sparkly washi, which does not like to stick to itself, so I added some more lace to it.
Here's the back

I didn't do a lot of decoration to the back. I really wish I did more on the middle part, you can see a button that says Model Status on it. On top, I added a hello I fussy cut and some blingy flowers.
I tried to load it up with girly stuff I found in my stash.
I hope she likes it. I can't wait to see what we create next month.

Girly pocket bag

For the monthly swap I'm in, I got to choose what we made and the theme for November. I'm not good at making decisions sometimes, so I chose a pocket bag in a girly theme. I also asked that we include 3 handmade paper clips.

Here's what Lisa sent me:

 It's beautiful I love that she went with a vintagey girly theme.
Here is the bag itself:

 Here's just the bag:

 I'm loving that banner punch and the mason jar punch. Someone has sent me a few of those for my wishes, but I can't get enough of them. I also love how she added the hello tag above.
Here's what was in the bag:

 a die cut collection. I'm guessing this is one whole collection that she bought somewhere. I'll be using these for sure.
More goodies:

 Lots of lace and embellishments.
This is my favorite goody:

She took that mason jar punch and made me a mini notebook with a W on it.

I've been watching videos where people don't want to take apart the things others sent them. I get that now. I made sure to put everything back in like I found it. I don't have the room in this apartment to display the things people are making me, so sometimes I go to the drawer where I keep them (it's getting pretty full, I'll have to figure out something else soon) and just marvel at how creative people are.

My next post will be what I sent her.