[ bag lady ]

As I look around, I see a reoccurring theme.

BAGS

EVERYWHERE

Here's just a peak into the madness:

This is my school bag. For this week. The bag I take to and from school changes with my mood. Sometimes it's a basket. Sometimes it's a bag. Sometimes it's none at all.

Right now it's the Vera Bradley Diaper Bag in Peacock. (You heard right - it's a Diaper Bag. It has lots of pockets and I love it. Thanks to Candace for the suggestion!)

I have gum, my planner, pens, highlighters, a folder with the work I brought home to work on this weekend, chapstick, and anti-bacterial hand sanitizer in it at this very moment.

This is my Cheer Bag. How'd you guess?!

I have ribbons, a blanket, t-shirt order forms, a cheer list, pens, my cheer binder, and my camera in it right now. I found these adorable purple and gold polka dot bags online at www.dallaswholesalers.com. The cheerleaders have matching duffle bags and they're dang cute.

This is my Junior Miss basket. During Junior Miss season, it holds a stopwatch, a clipboard with my Junior Miss Information Sheet on it, files with papers to hand out, gum, pens, pencils, highlighters, a fake microphone, and usually a water bottle of somesort. This is a Longaberger Market basket. It has gold splints that I earned for various things when I sold Longaberger.

This is my Beta Bag. It's a Vera Bradley Villager. I can't remember the pattern name.
In this bag, I have (can you guess?!) gum, pens, my Beta notebook (I'm the secretary this year), and my two everything-you-need-to-know-about-Beta mini books.

This is my Vera Bradley Vera bag in Peacock. I usually use it to carry my laptop, but it's been known to have various other uses as well. It was my "purse" slash carry-on bag when we went to Vegas and it's usually the bag I put everything in on road trips or vacations.

These are my two favorite purses. The ones I always go back to. After a few years, I've learned to be slow to buy a new purse because I'll usually just go back to one of these anyway.

I got the top one from Target a few years ago. I love love love it. It's big, roomy, and can hold lots of stuff. My one rule for purses is that it has to be able to hold my planner, which is a bulky six (five?)-ring binder type. This one holds my planner and more!

I'm proud of the bottom one. I know you're not supposed to value THINGS, but I value this. I bought this for myself the summer after my first year of working as a counselor. It represents hard work to me and the accomplishment of a goal. I love carrying this Coach Carly. It's well-loved. I used it everyday for an entire year, which if you know me, is terribly unusual. It shows a lot of wear and tear. I wish I could repair the worn spots and preserve it for the years to come, but I'd rather enjoy it now and use the heck out of it! Maybe I'll have a good excuse to treat myself to another Coach sometime in the future!