When I posted my blue and white purse/bag,someone asked if I had something in the bottom,to hold it's shape and make it sit up.At the time I didn't but hubby finally got my piece cut for me.I just made a 'pillowcase/slip' for it and I baste stitched the end on my machine.If I need to wash, I can easily unpick/rip the stitches to slip it out.It is a piece of formica countertop,very thin,but stiff and light weight.He rounded the corners,so they wouldn't poke into my fabric.Last photo doesn't have piece in.It was an earlier photo,just to remind you.-Toogie
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Hey Toogie, seeing all the replies below regarding the highly crafted base board for your bag (not the old sock it slides in to...lol) you could press-gang that hard working DH of yours into taking orders from other Cuties..............lol
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by toogie
20 Apr 2014
Oh,he'll love that! I don't know how much he has,but he did ask how many I needed.Of course I just need one....right now-
by toogie
20 Apr 2014
Oh,he told me to tell Chris one time,when she wanted a thread rack like mine that he made,he would make her one,but she'd have to come get it,he wasn't shipping!-lol
11929Toggie that is what I put in my toat bags it works great.
Lenamae
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32767Great idea!
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by toogie
20 Apr 2014
Thanks,I thought this tip may be useful to those who have access to this type 'material' (formica/or pexiglass).
318455What a great idea! Now my handsome hubby has yet another reason to go to the hardware store. He will need to stock up on formica for me. I'm glad your husband got stationed to Germany and your marriage has managed to last a brief 45 years. how is your vertigo?
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by toogie
20 Apr 2014
Almost non-existent, thank you...As for as the marriage,I don't know how the years have gone by so quickly, but HE sure has got old.He started out 5 years older than me,now I just don't know-lol-The formica, hubby had left over,from making cabinets,years ago. It wanted to bow,so he said he held it over some heat and it straightened back out.If you knew some handyman,they throw scrap materials away.My daughter went one time to a construction site,where they were builing a house for their friends.Out of the scrap mouldings,etc. they manage to salvage, they made a beautiful 'fake fireplace/mantle.I am cooking right now,then off to church,but I will try to locate a photo of it,I think I have one.Remind me,I may forget.
169064"...........hubby finally got my piece cut for me." These things take time you know. There's a whole raft of technical skills and forethought that have gone into the crafting of that piece. Well done Sir.
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by sewilso
19 Apr 2014
He's a keeper, that stuff isn't real easy to cut and especially rounded corners.
by toogie
19 Apr 2014
Yes dennis,I know these things take time...As i had given the measurements,he had to plug the saw in the electric socket-lol
by toogie
19 Apr 2014
He is a keeper sewilso,or I am....It has only been 45 years of marriage ,and we still don't know if it will last!.... Dennis will get a kick out of this.We married when he was in the armed forces.At the time there was a war going on.Before we married,he said if he was deployed to the war,we would not marry,as a good many were not coming home.Well,his orders were for Germany instead.I tell him,I wonder how many times over the years,he wished his orders would have been to go to war!-lol....I hear you laughing dennis
by dennis999
20 Apr 2014
You have obviously got yourself a fine man there Toogie and may there be many more years to add to those 45.
by sewilso
20 Apr 2014
lol! Toogie, my hubby told me he could never get married, and it's been 44 years I think.
by lenamae
edited 20 Apr 2014
Dennis my son is a wood worker and it takes a while for him to plug in the saw in has to figure out how many steps it take and how far he had to reach yes it does take time .LOL
Lenamae
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