* One wholesale order and a handful of individual orders, to the post office.
* One wholesale order to a local boutique (where I put the bag on a vintage theater bench, and despite the fact that it was full of my stuff, shoppers admired it and thought it was for sale).
* Assorted book purchases:
Thursday Next, by Jasper Fford
Mothers and Sons, by Colm Toibin
Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
*My current commuting reading: The Best American Non-Required Reading, 2007 edition*Current issue of W Magazine
*One pound of fresh kolache, apricot & raspberry, from a local bakery
*Macaroni & cheese leftovers after meeting a friend at a pub
*Health insurance renewal documents
*A purchase from stilettoheights.etsy.com, retrieved from the post office (gorgeous!)
*One bottle of sauvignon blanc
*One bottle of chardonnay
*One green sweater
*One green umbrella
*Pliers, chain, wire and beads for an order I finished at the office
*Shipping supplies
*...and myriad other daily necessities that travel with me: phone, mineral makeup from pinkquartz.etsy.com, assorted loose pairs of earrings, wallet, notebook, camera, flash drive, gum, a small forest of pens, change, and used train tickets that grows like moss in the pockets, and on and on and on...
Thanks, tortillagirl, I love my bag! You can buy one here:
8 comments:
Excellent post, dearest! As another owner of the Big City Bag (I think I bought mine a day or two after you did?), I must say that I agree with you completely. It's perfect. I brought mine out from winter hibernation a couple of weeks ago.
I believe I can add an assortment of odds and ends to your magnificent list of contents; knitting needles, crochet hooks, scissors, tape measure, yarn, can of diet coke, a Target bag containing 2 tank tops and 2 summerweight cardigans, a pair of flip flops, an entire box of See's Candy, and a giant blue and green bracelet made of balloons.
Thank you from me too, tortillagirl!
P.S. The only thing my Big City Bag is missing is a cookoorikoo pin. I intend to remedy that post-haste.
Woweee! I've been wanting my own this year, may be ordering in mere moments! BTW, Kateri, I absolutely adore Thursday Next - great taste, my friend! And Anansi Boys? One of my very favorites (the audiobook was priceless)!
WOW! It makes my heart sing to know that you're still using your bag! I just pulled mine out, too. The weather was a-callin' for it. (I now double interface and line the bags with canvas - I tote *so much* stuff in my own I decided to give the current ones a little extra armor, but my own still holds up like a trooper. Hee hee!)
Thanks so much for this blog post. You made me very happy :-)
oh how I have always adored that bag! I also like the one with the lace on it - love...
i have that bag too! i love it, just dug it out of storage, yay for summer!
I was just thinking how I need a big bag - probably bigger then this one. I was a backpack girl before but now I can't take it - mommy needs a big bag once in a while!
mac and cheese! That was me, that was me! Can't wait to see you again :)
oh you saved me. it's so hard to find a cool-big-bag-for-everything among all the "envirobags". big fan of your blog and jewelry and missing chicago!
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