High five

I really like the bags Threadless is doing - the long strap and short handles are great. My favorite.

Sunburst

Check out this great (affordable!) bag from Etsy seller Bayan Hippo. I think it would make a pretty great diaper bag because of the outside pocket thingy. Of course, the fact that it's just canvas would mean - in my life, at least - it would get pretty grungy pretty quickly.

Boom car

The MoMA store rocks; the MoMA catalogue, on the other hand, does not. But it's not the products inside, it's the way they select them. Too many scarfs and notecards - this ain't the Met.

Anyway.

Love this. It's more a wristlet size and I'm sure the sound quality is awful, I just like the way it looks.

Twitter/winner

Hey, everybody, an Envirosax giveaway!

So, Envirosax we've talked about more than once.

Well, they are sweet enough to do a Covetable giveaway, sort of in time for Father's Day (delay my fault, not theirs). So listen up, dear readers. If you look over to the right, you will see a link to the Covetable twitter. Yeah, I know. But anyway, sign up to follow the blog and I'll put you in the running to pick one bag of your choice from either the retro graphic series or the oxford series.

My favorite retro is this.



And my favorite oxford is this.



But no pressure.

I heartily encourage this trend

Following in the line of "not a plastic cup" and the even better coffee cup coin purse, another backflip product.



Found at cut+paste, which has a lot of fun stuff sort of in the Fred Flare vein.

Snap Zip

I got this camera case at H&M today. Of course I'm taking this photo with a camera that won't fit in that tiny bag, but I love it anyway.

Lobster quadrille

I was in a local store today, buying a Mother's Day present. It's the kind of store that has Coelacanth and BlueQ type stuff, plus like slinkys and Zutano. You know.

Anyway, I spotted some bags by a company called Bungalow360. New to me. They looked pretty nice, sturdily constructed and with some good prints. There was a lobster that took my fancy. Also, they are greenies and love cats!

Shiny happy veggies

So on the site Delight.com, where they offer daily deals, they had this RuMe shopping bag. (Although, that name...I'm totally thinking "rue me," as some purchases do tell you later.)



Now, I'm all for fancy shopping bags, and metallic is a good thing in mundane places. But I really do prefer this one, which I saw at the MoMA store. (That place is really dangerous for me, it's like my imaginary Xmas stocking.) Because it holds 18 liters...it's all about the typography, baby.

Essentials

I would never pay this much money for a tote, but I have to admit I like this. It pretty much sums up my shopping - or it would if there was a little pocket for CHEESE.

Packin' my bags

I have a new favorite for the imaginary overnight bag I don't have, but want.

Jane Marvel bags have great prints and look strong and capacious. I haven't seen one in the flesh, so to speak, but from the pictures they look pretty covetable.





Also, I'm very intrigued by this toiletries bag. It's not insanely huge, like the Eddie Bauer one I have, which I could practically pack for the weekend in. But it still unfolds and hangs. And check out the the awesome little round mirror.

She wears Banana Republic jeans

A friend of mine is getting a bag -- not this bag, but you know I'm in to the wristlets. I really like the fabric of this wristlet by Cotton Candy Boutique on Etsy.

Hummingbirds vs. robots

I bought this Coelacanth bag today at my local fabric store. It's a nice size, smaller than a shopping bag but big enough for stuff.

Coelacanth also sells this great little robot tote that would make a great lunch bag if you added a a little velcro to the top (I mean, I don't know about you, but my stuff would fall out).

I don't have a link, but it looks like this.

Fred's mix tape, plus a PSA

There is always something good at Fred Flare -- and that reminds me to go check out their 3D store when I'm next in Brooklyn.

But anyway, I find this very covetable. Shows how old I am!



It would be a good one for the farmers' market, along with my Ray Fenwick one from BlueQ, which I think of as a public service announcement.

Bag it

Simple. I like it!



More letters here.

Maybe your reach, not mine

It's sort of a joke for Design Within Reach to send me a catalogue. The name on its own just kills me. I mean, the day I buy a $500 desk lamp is the day I have no furniture in my house except a $500 desk lamp.

However, these scissors are beautiful. Maybe not $100 beautiful, but covetable nonetheless.



On the other hand, this unadorned canvas bag is also $100. There is no way you can convince me a tote bag needs to cost that much. At least stencil a damn bird on it!



But, you know, DWR has realized some of the arcane knowledge of LL Bean:

"Used for its industrial strength and durability, canvas is an ideal material for a tote bag."

I am not your bag

So I bought this great bag. This is not it.



But, see, the one I bought is already dying. I deserve it, I suppose, for going to New York with all of my stuff in it, plus Neal Stephanson's Anathem (if you see it, you know it's a doorstop). It's just vinyl, so the stress points are splitting and it's not going to last long.

So that's not my bag, but it's cute.

Stock up

I found this great shop in Sonoma. It has a punny name, and I hate those, but the store itself is pretty full of covetable stuff.

There are a lot of retro fifties items -- I was there with my mother, who grew up then, and we had fun. But there are also lots of the kind of thing I always like (bags, things with letters on them, stuff referencing coffee -- or all three).

What's a pinder when it's at home?

Some anonymous commenter told me to check out this site - Pinder Bags.

This is a great bag -- sort of a sleeve, sort of a bag, just how I like 'em. Apparently the sale ended yesterday, though.

Tote awes

Love this!

Crumple

Hmm, I'm getting intrigued by Crumpler bags. (The website is alternately lots of fun and headbangingly hard to navigate. Yeah, design guys, I'm sure everything is there and so, so intuitively placed...)

Anyway, I like this one -- called Skivvy. (All the names are mad cool, as some people say.)

I wouldn't choose black, myself, but this is a good bag -- not too professional, not too unprofessional.