Baby Bag

At times, when you've finished a bag for sell, or any other handmade product, you have mixed feelings. Because it's your baby. And you're really proud of it (as long as it comes out good and for your expectations), you're looking at it up and down for this or that long.

Now, I don't know about you, but when I finish a bag, I always think it's worthy of my admiration, and I look at it a hundred times up until the next bag. And the story repeats itself. Now comes my biggest dilemma. Well, not so much as a dilemma, more as a heartbreak. I mean, yes, I'll get money for it, make other people happy and spread my passion around. But in a way, to say goodbye to your baby is heartbreaking. I just can't help it.

My solution for it, is to just keep making new bags, whilst you're getting used to that bag you can't seem to say goodbye to. After a while, and many more bags, that other bag will seem almost… averaged. Like it's not as heartbreaking anymore. And the rest lasts. You'll still be getting the money, you've still done your share… and now you're not even that hooked to the bag anymore.

And you know it's harder when there aren't many bags. Like in the beginning when I started selling the bags I made (less than now, of course), there weren't that many of them; so I guess it was harder to say goodbye. Although, the bags I made then were least, in a way, but at that time it was easier to say goodbye, because they weren't that great. And I both knew it and was proud of them.

Then again, if I made a few of the same design, there would be more to say goodbye to, though it would be easier. Problem is, I like my bags one of a kind. I rarely make 2 bags that are exactly the same. So the answer might be found in the question. I'd make the same bags, but with a little twist in each one. As I always announce, I think it's best to make the same pattern – yet a different design. A little change in each one. You'd get to make them faster, because it's the same pattern, but sometimes some people wouldn't even realize the bags came from the same base.
When I do that, in my heart it's like the same bag a few times, and I like them the same. That way it makes it easier for me to sell. Psychologically, I presume.

I don't usually do that, but there is a particular bag I've made, that I couldn't, simply couldn't give away. I kept it to myself. Also because mine was falling apart and I needed a new one. So I took that bag, that might have been very expensive to buy by other people, and now I use it as my own. And somehow I just know that people who get the bags from me enjoy it the same way I enjoy the one I kept for myself. If they see something in a bag and buy it, it makes me feel as if I kept it to myself, it has found a home. As much as it hurts giving away your baby sometimes, I just know that someone who's both a bag lover and a handmade products lover, gets to keep it. Actually paid for having it, the thing I made. It travels and seeing by many people who can proudly say they bought it from me. In a way, it opens so many doors. And like everything, there comes a time when you have to free your baby, so it could start a new life somewhere else. It's still mine, the tag is sewn there, only in someone else's hands. It's all worth it.