About
Custom Carrying Creations and how it all began!
One day in the spring of 1987, while at BYU, a friend came to me and handed me a piece of material and said something like - I need a temple bag that is chic and elegant - not "Molly Mormon" or "granola" looking. I want you to make me a temple bag and I want you to use this material -
So that night (my roommate worked nights) I laid the material out on the floor and played around with some different configurations that I thought would work. I started cutting and sewing and the first TempleTote was made. She loved it since it fit everything and kept her dress from being wadded up and wrinkled in a suitcase.
The next year, I opened a bridal shop in Provo with that same friend and sewed many, many dresses the first six months - 32 bridesmaid dresses, 8 wedding dresses, Miss Utah pageant dresses and many other alterations. We also sold the TempleTotes in our shop. We were young and really didn't know the first thing about having a store and I was sewing 18 hours a day most days. It was crazy and it was fun and it was stressful all at once.
Fast forward to 2012, I was at the Oakland LDS Temple and a friend noticed my bag and asked me where I got it. I told her that I had made it, and I had designed it years ago. I had made several for wedding gifts and such over the years but hadn't really marketed the totes. She said - "Heather, you need to sell these bags and I want one too!"
I made her a tote and started my ETSY.com store that same month.
Now we have sold more than 2000 totes and ship worldwide!
So that night (my roommate worked nights) I laid the material out on the floor and played around with some different configurations that I thought would work. I started cutting and sewing and the first TempleTote was made. She loved it since it fit everything and kept her dress from being wadded up and wrinkled in a suitcase.
The next year, I opened a bridal shop in Provo with that same friend and sewed many, many dresses the first six months - 32 bridesmaid dresses, 8 wedding dresses, Miss Utah pageant dresses and many other alterations. We also sold the TempleTotes in our shop. We were young and really didn't know the first thing about having a store and I was sewing 18 hours a day most days. It was crazy and it was fun and it was stressful all at once.
Fast forward to 2012, I was at the Oakland LDS Temple and a friend noticed my bag and asked me where I got it. I told her that I had made it, and I had designed it years ago. I had made several for wedding gifts and such over the years but hadn't really marketed the totes. She said - "Heather, you need to sell these bags and I want one too!"
I made her a tote and started my ETSY.com store that same month.
Now we have sold more than 2000 totes and ship worldwide!