Amazing Finds At The Salvation Army's Store

[DrmCa]

Was killing 15 min of time at the Thrift store where I never go and after looking at the old garbage they had, finally stopped at the rack with the purses and thought: What the heck, they might have something that I could deconstruct for the learning purposes.

So I shuffled through a few old purses and saw this. Both purses are very high quality leather and worksmanship.

Even just looking at the pictures of the orange purse I can feel soft and warm strong leather it is made of.

The large orange one is made in Colombia by Queros and the buff/sand one is Bravo Browns.

For $6 and $5 I could not let this steal of a deal to pass and now I am a happy owner of the both.

Lots to learn from how these are made.

[bananaplum]

That is so awesome! I love thrift store finds... and these seem to be in pretty good shape, too! I'm jealous

[Walstr]

A $20 leather women's jacket was a perfect source for making some hanging Smart Phone belt pouches. Whodathought?

[veedub3]

The first leather smartphone case I made was made from a Coach purse I found in the Goodwill for $4.95. It was one of their older styles probably dating back to the early 80's, my mother actually yelped when I deconstructed it. Once I cleaned it up it was some really nice leather. I was able to get quite a few items from that purse.