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For years I traveled with the zippered pouch I was given when I opened my very first checking account. You remember those, right? I’m not THAT old. Sometimes it held my travel documents, other times toiletries, occasionally make-up. It accompanied me on my honeymoon and on our first family vacation to the Cancun.

It wasn’t until I learned how to sew that I realized how HIDEOUS this thing was. I couldn’t exactly throw it out, it carried too many memories. So off it went to storage with 50 other bins of items with which we just couldn’t seem to part.

I still needed a multi-purpose zippered pouch, so I decided to make my own using my favorite fabrics.

I ended up making two, because I kept thinking of new ways to use them! What do you think? Tell us in the comments!

Click here to see where this and our other projects are linked!

In the age of online bill pay and debit cards, our poor checkbooks barely see the light of day. (Remember your first set of checks? Mine were “Precious Moments”!) Even though a box of checks lasts me longer than the calendar on the back of the register book, I wanted to give my checkbook a little “sprucing up”. I made myself a cute little checkbook cover and lo and behold, other people liked it!

It turns out that I am not the only one who still carries my checkbook on me at all times “just in case”. Just in case, what? I don’t know…just in case I leave my debit card in my other jeans after using it to pump gas the day prior (this has happened to me more than once!) Just in case the credit card machine is down at the grocery store. Just in case my kids remind me as I am dropping them off that field trip money is due TODAY!

So here are some of the checkbook covers I have designed. These will be at our trunk shows, but you can always order by clicking on the email tab on our sidebar.