From the smashed pieces of vintage comes Tikis that can leave the house and hold your keys

Sometimes a great night out with friends can leave a girl stumbling, and concrete doesn’t have compassion for vintage purses the way one might hope for. 50 years on this planet and my prized mushroom box purse slammed to the ground spraying hardware and chunks of decopaged fungi all over our carport. Little did I know this was the perfect excuse for Justin to work on a little idea he had been mulling. 3 days later after brushing me aside as a tried to figure out what he was grinding on the carport this time,  he hands me a box purse to beat all box purses- carved and grained wood, tikis on both sides and the order- “Find a handle for me and line it”. I was most pleased to do so, and the love in my eyes for a whole other shelf of carefully collected purses instantly diminished. This was 8 months ago, and even while cranking out custom requests to outfit all the ladies in our circle of friends, Justin has developed even more designs and unwittingly become a purse designer for those of us that would rather have a worshiped idol than a foriegn logo on our handbags.  Here are two of his first purses, the tiki one living with a very lovely lady in Jacksonville and the other braving the cold weather in Pennsylvania with high style. Tomorrow will be the Etsy store launch with the new designs we have in stock, but until then a peek of whats to come.