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The Right Accessories are Key to Being Organized

ladies with accessories

The cavernous inside of a tote can be perceived as a threat or as an opportunity. Is it a wide, open, deep space that sucks in important objects and requires endless search and rescue for a pen or a comb? Or is it the opportunity for the land of compartmentalization that thrives with a place for everything?

Each Sea Bag tote has a slip pocket that can be command central for your smartphone or keys. However, the rest of the space is available for you to develop as needed. I have found that the right accessories really do help organize the space that naturally invites entropy.

<cosmetic pouch

The cosmetic pouch is appropriate, well, for cosmetics but also for keeping a checkbook, pens, small calculator, business cards and note paper in one place. As parent of small children, I keep a package of wet wipes with straws and utensils in another cosmetic pouch for “just in case” instances. 

anchor change purse

The anchor stamped change purse is a perfect size for credit cards. Or, of course, this accessory keeps coins from bulking up wallets or rattling around at the bottom of the bag.

colorful change purses

The vintage change purse is easy to spot because it is made from brightly colored Dacron sailcloth. It is a little larger than the anchor change purse so a cellphone or iPod with earbuds fit nicely.  

pink chain tote with wristlet

Don’t forget the wristlet. Latch it to the handle for greater access. Often times when I want to downsize or need to travel light, I gather essentials in the wristlet and depart from the mothership tote for quick trips to the grocery store.

ladies with accessories

What else do you carry in your purse or tote?

0 Comments | Posted in A View From Bow Street By Jennifer DeChant

Beach Vacation

 

crowded beach

By now Mainers have removed their snow tires. Even though it was a mild winter, we are conditioned to not be surprised by a snowstorm in March or April. It is after that when we typically usher in Mud Season, or spring, as the rest of the country enjoys around the same time of the year.

beach bag


In Maine, we make the most of our summers and enjoy every moment of warm weather. And, most of us are not easily persuaded to leave the state during those months. We spend hours and days ritually preparing for summer by opening up camps, purchasing beach passes or preparing the boat for the water. Summers in Maine are the best.

 

But between now and summer is an interesting time for Mainers. Naturally our thoughts turn to vacation. This is the time of year - especially facilitated by the fact that school spring break is the same statewide - when some folks flee the 60 degree days to spend time on beaches elsewhere. They trade Maine’s rocky shores and coarse exfoliating sand for warm water and white beaches and 80+ degree-days.

lifeguard station lifeguard tote

 

However, a beach day is never a bad day no matter where it is. It is in that spirit that these photos are shared. Do your vacation plans include visiting Maine this summer?

0 Comments | Posted in A View From Bow Street By Jennifer DeChant

April is Bucket Bag Month

 

You heard it here first. Sea Bags has declared April as Bucket Bag Month! Who needs a basket when you have a bucket?

bunny in bucket bag

The stout design is great for filling with chocolate candies and pastel colored eggs surrounded by bright Easter grass peppered with jellybeans.

cactus in a bucket

Place your flower vase inside a bucket bags for an instantly festive centerpiece that is perfect during family dinner or casual enough to showcase spring’s finest.

Display rolled hand towels in the guest bathroom. Add cookies to give as a gift. The back panel tracks gift recipients. But, remember, there is no shame in keeping the versatile bucket bag for yourself!

Bucket bags aren’t afraid of getting dirty either. Carry all your Earth Day gardening tools.  Collect seashells while walking along the beach. Just rinse out the soil or sand when you are finished.

flowers in claw bucket

Baskets become obsolete with a bucket bag. There are a wide variety of designs. Each is easy to clean and convenient to store. 

April is the time to say b'bye to wicker and hello to the green of recycled sailcloth!

0 Comments | Posted in From Around the Shop By Jennifer DeChant

A View from Bow Street: Getting Crabby is Okay

March 14, 2012 5:24:08 PM EDT

Getting Crabby is a Good Thing

For years Sea Bags has offered our custom tote program for customers to create a personalized look. During that time, we noticed that several folks incorporated the image of a crab on their special bags. For a while we have wanted to add a crab to our creature collection that includes whale tales, lobster claws and swordfish. And the timing was right for this spring.

We wanted our crab to be different and without the typical jagged points. It took several tries to get this one correct. A variety of concepts were shared but it wasn’t until this design, with softer lines, appeared we knew we had found our newest, sideway walking crustaceblue crab large totean friend.

Our crab is blue (royal blue, actually) but, for the biologists (or Marylanders) among us, it is not meant to be a blue crab. It is not a fiddle crab either.  Even though a closer look reveals the larger, right pincher and even though the fiddle crab moves its smaller claw from ground to mouth during feeding so it looks as if the animal were playing the larger claw like a fiddle, any resemblance is strictly coincidental. Believe me.

Crabs prefer semi-tropic waters so we don’t encounter many of them here in Maine. But our design is kept crabs on a stoolgeneral and is offered as a symbol of great strength and power in gripping and holding. It is also a great graphic for those people born under the zodiac sign, Cancer.

Our lobster claw debuted a couple of years ago and has been well received as a quintessential symbol of Maine ever since. Now we are pleased to add the crab design to our spring collection.

   blue crab pillow

0 Comments | Posted in A View From Bow Street By Jennifer DeChant

Best Trends of Spring 2011: Sea Bags Style!

March 9, 2011 1:13:46 PM EST

We follow Fab Sugar and recently they had an article about the Best Trends of Spring 2011. They were offering a refresher course in this season's most wearable trends. If you are like me, I am constantly needing some refreshing! 

Stripes are making a come back! 

Stripes for Spring Fashion 2011

Mix it up with bright & bold colors to make a Spring statement...


Colored Eyeglass Cases

Layering whites is a great statement for Spring!

White on white

Looking through all 15 style trends for Spring 2011 reminds me that warmer, longer days are coming (clocks spring forward this weekend)! I think I am heading home to pack away the long coats & the bomber hats until next year. 

0 Comments | Posted in General From Around the Shop By Amy Vintinner