Terrific Etsy Finds!

Hope everyone recovered from the 4th of July!

 I had Mister Wonderful take my photo of my casual outfit worn, along with my new Etsy purchases!

I have been wanting some type of a bag to carry my DSLR in, that wasn't going to cost me an arm and a leg, and also have some type of protection in the bag to keep the camera from getting scratched. So often I see random strangers in check out lines that have their camera just loosely hanging out in a purse full of loose change, car keys and junk that scratches anything and everything.

Enter Flipped Bird!!!

I first found this bag in a store here in Phoenix called The Grande Orange. It's like a pizza/sandwich restaurant slash also has gift shop with very unique things it it for sale. I saw the bag hanging near the registers, and really took a liking to it. Well, I didn't have any money that day to be buying anything so I had to leave. The next day was pay day, and I called the store to see if the yellow bag was still there. It wasn't. :(  Thankfully, I had written down the tag that said Flippedbird.com on it. Yes!! A website! I was praying I'd see the bag online. I hopped on Etsy and contacted the shop's owner Marci and told her about my dilemma! Bless her heart, she had my yellow bag at her house, and was going to ship it to me asap.
You can visit Flipped Bird here on Etsy. Her bags are REVERSIBLE which is totally cool in my book! you get sick of one color, flip it inside out and you have a whole new bag!

Okay, now enter my second etsy purchase. I needed something to protect my camera in the bag. I stumbled upon this shop on Etsy too.

visit seasons totes HERE

these camera inserts have 2 inch padding and easily fit into a purse/bag of your choice! 

This store also offers handmade camera bags/totes but I was so in love with my bag from Flipped Bird, that I just went with the insert.

Here's a Photograph of the insert inside my Flipped Bird bag.

Some of you may be asking, what was wrong with the camera bag that Nikon gave me with the purchase of my camera? Well, for starters, I was carrying my purse and a camera bag. I looked like the bag lady. Too many bags to be constantly hauling around. The Purse insert has pockets all around the edges making it perfect to also carry my ID and money on me too. Thus, I can leave the big purse behind and just have everything in one bag.