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I have found a new crafting addiction: zippered pouches. I have wanted to make my own little pouch for so long but have been a) intimidated by sewing a zipper and b) too lazy to deconstruct a pouch to figure out a pattern. Then I remembered that Pinterest is a thing and there are a million tutorials for how to go about making yourself a zippered pouch.

And so I bought myself some fabric and made myself up two pouches. And then I made a few more. And then I made four more. And then I made another.

If you're counting, that is ten pouches in one week. Evan wants to set up an intervention for me. The other night at like 10 pm I said, "I wish I had some zippers right now. I want to make a pouch." TEN PM. Girlfriend, no. Go to bed.

A girl only needs so many pouches. I've already dubbed one as the dipes & wipes pouch for my purse. Another holds all of my oils and random health things I take with me everywhere. Another is for my lipstick and tiny essentials. Evan looked in my purse and told me that I do not in fact need a zippered pouch for everything in my purse. Oh. BUT I DO.

My obvious next step is to make some for all of my friends and then make some more and sell them. The one below is my favorite so far. The polka dots just about kill me and that yellow zipper and then surprise! more polka dots inside. I used to carry this little lipstick pouch with llamas on it (I called it Tina, for obvious reasons.) and now I carry this adorable pouch instead. I haven't shown it to very many people because I made pouches for my mom and mother-in-law for Mother's Day out of the flower fabric and so it has to be a surprise for a minute longer. BUT. When people do start seeing this pouch and they're like, "Where did you get such a cute pouch?" I get to say, "I MADE THIS." High fives all around.