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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

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

Custom Bags: Zip code

February 10, 2012 10:00:00 AM EST

In 1963, the US Postal Service developed a numbering system to help with the increased volume of mail that was being distributed. Zip codes starting with the number "0" indicated areas in the northeast, while zip codes starting with the number "9" indicated areas in the northwest.

Along came the drama series 90210 in the fall of 1990, and we could all identify with our zip code. The show was based on a family that relocates to Beverly Hills from the midwest. The show made zip codes chic. We think people identify with zip codes & it is proven by the number of requests we get to add them to a custom designed bag. Below are examples. We can add zip codes in a number of ways, in a number of colors & on diffent sizes of our tote bags.

Lobster claw tote zip code large tote Small Zip Code Bag

0 Comments | Posted in General Custom Bags By Amy Vintinner

Custom Bags: Alternative Style

December 16, 2011 2:46:52 PM EST

Many of the racing sail are made with carbon or kevlar for strength. Some of the sail we recycle are these types of sail. They are not the traditional white that you see so commonly on our website. Below are three custom orders that use these alternative sails - We love the "pops" of color. What do you think? kevlar tote kevlar tote

0 Comments | Posted in General Guest Blog By Amy Vintinner