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Here’s part 4, the final segment of making our Mini Mailbox purse!! A lot goes into every single product I make, and truly while these videos highlight many steps they still miss a bunch. Liking, commenting, sharing my work feels really “cool”, as if all these unseen hours do get noticed in a way.

Today’s video I assembled the main body of the purse, which is lined in a beautiful tangerine orange chèvre leather. Of course I spent countless hours ensuring the edge paint was nothing short of perfect.

Stamping our logo is made super easy with Maxita hot foil stamping machine from JunLin Leather (and they have excellent customer service).

A nice tip is when you have to line up and finally punch pieces together, see if you can pre punch or pre mark out your holes. That way when you have to finally punch them at awkward angles you don’t have to guess if you’re lined up straight (maybe that makes sense?).

Tomorrow I’ll share photos of the details on the purse and finally breakdown the subtle changes I made from the original design.

Thanks so much for coming back and if you haven’t seen the first few parts check them out!

Finally done with this one. Not videoed are the endless hours of sanding, polishing, and painting to go from rough and ugly to a mirror shine. I think they stand up to the best of the best.

Edge paint is one of those things that if it isn’t perfect it’ll keep you up at night (or at least it does for me). Using only sandpaper, edge paint and tokonole (helps visualize low spots) I was able to achieve these edges. No creasing irons or special tools. I will now be able to sleep tonight.

Thanks for watching various hours over 3 days in 30 seconds 🫡

And I just wanted a nice video of Lucy next to our Life Tote

Thank you to a prior Envelope handbag client for trusting me with another bespoke commission! L&L approve this one

Buttero Leather (Black & Red) from
Ritza Thread (Black & Red) from Ripstop Lining (Black) from .canada