an early birthday present

A recent trip down to Portland Oregon resulted in a bit of shopping. I saw these lovely and intriguing felt wool bags- "built by hand in Portland, Oregon, of recycled wool felt". The wool was recycled from scraps left from the garment industry and reworked into roomy and cozy handbags. The wool felt showing bits of different colors-flecks of blue and red, green everything. Almost looks like bunched up newspaper if you squinted- but smoother.

I saw the bags in a few shops and for some reason decided against it- rationalizing that I already had too many bags. I left Portland and found myself pining for a wool handbag.

I tracked them down and phoned them up to found they had only 2 left so I snatched up their satchels. One for me and one for my good friend Sonia.

Queen Bee Creations
1847 E. Burnside St. #103
Portland, OR 97214