MONDAY OCTOBER 31

New in the shop today - 1950's era athletic canvas carryall w/ black leather bottom reinforcement & shoulder straps.
Available HERE.

TRIP PT 1: PALM SPRINGS & LA

Our trip started off at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs where we did pretty much nothing .. laid by a pool and drank frozen mai tais, went swimming, I read a cool suspense novel that I bought at Walgreens.. pretty much just forced ourselves to relax. Followed the next day by a trip to Joshua Tree National Park. Neither of us had been to the desert before (and this was Aaron's first West Coast trip) so we were pretty mindblown by the park.

Then we spent the next few days in LA/Santa Monica with good friends who moved out there a few months ago. Mostly just wandered around the city, ate delicious tacos, saw a really great exhibit at the LACMA, and basked in the most perfect weather we could have asked for.

T MAGAZINE

While we were away Forestbound was featured in the Women's Winter '11 issue of the New York Times Style Magazine - T. Thanks so much to Julie Gilhart for including us!

SHOP UPDATE & THINGS TO COME

We're back from vacation! Thanks to all who made orders while we were away.
The shop has just been updated with a whole slew of new bags and there will be more new items to come later on this week.

We're not participating in any holiday markets this season so all attention will be focused on the online shop. We'll be putting as many new bags as possible in the shop every week as well as offering a variety of specials & sales. Look for a new limited edition pouch within the next few weeks and the annual $50 tote bag sale at the end of November!

We had the best time ever on our trip & took so many photos. I'm going to split things up into a few different posts so you don't get completely overwhelmed with my janky iphone photos.

VACATION

We're leaving this week for a West Coast trip.. Palm Springs, LA, Big Sur, Redwoods, Portland, Olympic National Park, Seattle.. and will return in 2.5 weeks.

-- All orders placed between Tuesday 10/11 & Thursday 10/27 will ship on Friday 10/28 --

BACKPACK

Real nice backpacks by Nutsa Modebadze.

LEATHER BAGS FOR FALL

(All photos by Katharine Shields)

- Two styles of all leather bags are now available online ! -

Made from super durable oil-tanned cowhide. Available in either black or brown leather.

Each leather bags comes with a numbered, hand-stamped brass key fob made from 100% salvaged materials.

These bags will not be available for purchase in stores - online only!

Get them in the Forestbound Online Shop.

FALL HARVEST

Ashley's blog is one of my favorites and her photos from a fall harvest festival show just what I love most about this season.

MONDAY OCTOBER 3

Two new bags in the shop today -- 1950's era farm feedsack zip-top weekend bag.
Available HERE.

1930's era ticking fabric carryall.
Available HERE.