My Big Win!

Now.  I have a major secret to share that I'm not sure you'll believe because I myself didn't believe it till it happened to me.  You know all those great giveaways?  Someone really DOES win them, and last week, that someone was MEEEEEE!!!!!  Ever heard of bluebird vintage? {prob a crazy question, forgive me, I'm kinda new around here, the bleu bird blog is large, so I imagine a lot of you have been there before} The blog is large because it is also insanely beautiful and she is ridiculously cool.  If you haven't been there before, be sure and check it out NOW {click here} because as I type this, she's giving away one of those theit camera bags that every woman with a DSLR (or whatever the acronym is) camera would DIE to have.  

So anyway... back to Me.  ;D ... I entered one of bleubirds giveways a week or two or three or so ago, and I got an email last week telling me that I had won!!!!!!!  Look!

the winner of the ellington handbags giveaway is: 

OHMYGAWD.  You know how you have to go click on the shop and check it out in order to enter a giveaway?  Well I checked out Ellington and fell in love with a particular Hobo bag they have. Their Sadie Hobo collection.  Big, simple, classic.  Soo me.  I was over the roof excited to have won, and EVEN BETTER, they are located in Portland, as am I!  Ellington emailed me and offered to send me the bag I wished for in my entry comment, or, I could come down to the shop and pick out whatever bag I wanted!  

 So last Saturday, I headed down

let's go! 

{click here to see ALL of what was inside}

Their leather is top notch, they sell for themselves and to small boutiques {no department stores have them which I love} and they offered many different, classic bags, but their Sadie Hobo line isn't one of their best sellers for no reason.  It is AWESOME.  And it comes in sooo many colors and textures!

the Sadie Hobo Glazed Cognac.
the original bag i wanted so badly

but the brown suede and the brown were amazing too!

and what about this debossed black one?!

photo doesn't capture the color well, but their new spring gray suede was amazing too!
and of course.  classic glazed black.

how could i possibly choose!!?

It was so hard to decide!  But I did.

me with my new bag in bag
and yes, i am very very happy  :D

any guesses on which one i chose?? 

-m-