Keri Smith: Bag Lady
Posted on | February 9, 2004 |
Here’s the bag lady post by Keri Smith that originally got me seriously thinking about a bag blog.
I just love creative or unusual bags and i also love Keri Smith’s lovely drawings. Plus it was nice to read someone else admitting to the world they were obsessed with bags. See it isn’t just me–hooray! I also love to have that little “portable comfort zone (littleworld)” that Keri describes, but I also need the bag to make my day easier, not more complicated and i need the bag to make me smile whenever i pick it up.
so what qualities does a bag have to have before I would consider it?
1. MUST be able to hold my canon g3. no small task since this is a pretty bulky camera.
2. MUST make my day easier. for example, no complicated buckles or zippers or anything that makes it take more then one hand for me to read THE ESSENTIALS: my t-pass, chapstick and cell phone.
3. MUST provide me with security, ie I don’t want to worry about losing anything. so while everything in the bag must be easy to reach, I still want to be able to quickly zip it secured away.
4. MUST be sturdy. i love seeing cute little handmade bags, but mine needs to be tough as nails. I need to be able to put up with a daily beating like being bumped around the subway, tossed into a drawer at work, opened over and over again.
5. MUST make me smile 
when I use it. I know I have bought the right bag when as I am falling asleep at night I think of the cool new bag I am using tomorrow and it makes me excited about the coming day!
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also see Christine’s bag of tricks!