I was lucky to graduate from college with a full time job.  Different times, different place.

That full time job started in the spring, just as the over-sized everyday satchel came back into fashion.  I bought myself an XOXO faux pink leather satchel and it quickly became my one and only.  It was a purse for big girls.  Big girls with full time jobs and leases on their own apartments (hence the faux pink leather).

It came with me everywhere.

I worked at a TV news station nightside, which, on the east coast means the hours were from 2 p.m. until you get to leave.  Generally, if the scanners weren’t going crazy and a high rise wasn’t burning down or there wasn’t a homicide in Schenectady, that meant you could leave after the 11 p.m. news went off the air.

Nice job, everyone, let’s go get drinks on Lark Street.

Fabulous.  Let me grab my big girl pink purse.

It came with me to Washington, D.C., to Indianapolis, back and forth to Brooklyn, to the New York State Fair in Syracuse and down the Cape quite a few times.

The satchel has since been sent to Goodwill.  I regret it to this day.

The end.

Kind of.

Do you Etsy?  I don’t.  I browse but have never posted or purchased.

That may change because this week I saw this bag on another blog I read.  Floored.

This is like the professional version of my big girl purse.

I think I’m old enough to handle real pink leather now.

I adore it.  And I have a birthday coming up.

Cheers!