Here’s mine! What’s in yours?
My dear friend Julie B over at The Sardine Tin tagged me for the Handbag /Sunshine meme.
Apparently, people can find the contents of a handbag interesting! As I usually had my ‘school bag’ with books & folders in, I always went for a small compact hand bag as it only had to have my phone & glasses in it. Since retiring though, I’ve needed to get a ‘proper’ bag. I still find it difficult to carry it like the Queen though so it has to have handles that allow me to sling it over my shoulder.
I wonder if anyone has ever done a study on the type of handbag & compared it to a woman’s personality. Well if they did they’d say that I’m colourful! As those of you who follow my blog will know I love coloured shoes so I supposed that makes me co-ordinated as well! The contents would confirm that I’m a teacher at heart as you’ll see in a minute!
Firstly, let me describe my two bags (yes, I’ve got two because they are very similar apart from one being larger than the other so it wasn’t fair to leave one out!) Both bags were bought on separate holidays to Perigeux in France. They are made of swatches of lovely soft leather fixed like feathers to the bag. They came in a variety of colours either mixed or single. They have part-beaded handles with cord ribbing at the top.
If you look carefully, you can see that the red one on the right has leaf shapes. Somehow when you hold it up the bag looks like a strawberry!
As for the contents – well the usual – purse, lippy, keys, my Mr.Men diary (subject for another post!), my purple Blog book (this is where I jot any ideas for future posts), pen, a memory stick & a folder. I have shown this because if I’m going to a meeting, I’ll take the red bag because it is big enough for a folder. The only thing missing is my mobile which was being charged up!
As I said, the contents show that I’m still a teacher at heart with all the ‘schooly’ things. I still get excited at this time of year when it is ‘new diary’ time!
So there you have it. I will now pass this meme to the following folk so that we can continue this nosey exercise!
Veronica at How Not to be a Widow
Heather at Eggs, Cream & Honey
Chris at Thinly Spread
Dawn at The Moiderer
The rules are as follows:
Put the Sunshine Logo on your sidebar, or within a post.
Pass the award onto a few Bloggers.
Link the nominees within your post.
Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.
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Pretty bags, yes very obvious you were a teacher all that paper lol
Just can’t seem to break the habit!!
That red bag is just plain fun!
=)
PS. Thanks for stopping by today. I chuckled at your comment.
No problem!
After years of having enormous bags, due to carrying all the childrens’ paraphenalia with me, I have just got used to the concept of having different bags for different outfits. They still have to be able to fit in: purse, keys, make-up, pen and phone (which is rarely on, or charged!). I fear that my bag addiction may start to compete with my shoe habit.
My mum had the bag bug, I’ve got the shoe! You’ll need lots of room for both!!
What fabulous bags, and so unusual! Thanks for taking part in this one – always nice to have a nosy inside things people don’t normally show.
It was fun to do! Thanks for the tag!
Love love love your handbags, Julia … I am a huge handbag fan too but they are more practical than gorgeous, like yours :o)
Oh thanks! They were just not to be missed!
gorgeous bags.
Thank you maam!
Those are beautiful handbags, I can see they belong to the colourful shoe lady 😀 I am impressed with your contentst too, neat and useful! Jen.
Thanks Jen!
Gorgeous bags lady! I get over excited at the new diary time of year too! Will get on to this as and when I can if that’s ok..got a few backing up and rather a lot of posts in my head too! Thanks very much for the tag! 🙂 xxx
No problem with the tag. I know what it feels like to have a head full!
Julia I so don’t think anyone wants to see the contents of my bag!! It’s mostly receipts and pennies at the bottom with the odd sticky sweet and the usual wallet, keys, phone. I’d hate to think what it says about me. Oh yeah, completely disorganised and extremely messy! Your bags look gorgeous btw. So funky 🙂
You are excused!
I would never EVER have put you and those bags together!! Love the one on the left 😀
Umm! Not sure how to take that!! 🙂
Thanks for the tag. I did this one quite a while ago so I hope you don’t mind me putting that link in here. I don’t do handbags so I adapted it a little 🙂
http://www.themoiderer.com/blog/2010/02/whats-in-your-handbagshedon-your-desk.html
You adapt away! Hadn’t seen your name around on a meme for a while so thought I’d nab you!
Happy to be tagged. I haven’t done many memes lately 🙂