How cute is she on this cover?

Just a few more days until Laura Bennett's new book, Handmade Chic: Fashionable Projects That Look High End, Not Homespun. hits the shelves! I keep periodically checking Amazon.com to see if a few new pages or a few random copies have shown up - to no avail - so my patience is waning and excitement is mounting!

Because I plan to get the new iPad 3 (or at least the iPad 2, if the 3 hikes the price back up) in March, I am extra excited about this book. Hey, I work at J. Crew. I know how much a cute iPad cover can potentially cost! " Apparently there is a leather project for iPad covers in there. But I really wouldn't know what lies behind those glossy covers of LB's new book, I haven't seen it!!! Needless to say, I am extremely jealous of those "advanced copies" some folks received. At any rate, no, you aren't going to find any tutorials here that you haven't seen anywhere else. In fact, I'm not even going to post the Blogging Project Runway Laptop Case tutorial. (But sorry, I can't resist linking to it...!)

And let me just say, I LOVE Mrs. LB. Some folks have been seen critiquing her supposed derogatory attitude towards "homespun," but I am not one of those. Do I want people to look at my clothes (jewelry, accessories, etc.) and say, "Oh, did you make that?" No! I want them to say, "Oh, I looooove that!" Then, I can knock them off of their feet a la Scarlett O'Hara, "Why, this old thing?" Oh yes. I made this old thing. And you want to buy one? Well it's not for sale, ha-ha! (J/K, this is never my response. I am always so excited when someone complements something I have made that I can just, rather uncool-y, smile and say "Thank you," while my face turns beet red.)

Anyway... here's are some bags featured in the book. Oh, LB, I can't wait!!!!

I love all three of the leather ones!!!! The wallets are pretty adorable, too.

Click here to go to Laura's page on the Daily Beast