bay bag / shell

The Bay Bag is from Pisces, a collection I made during a really low time. I'm a typical Libra, but back then I felt much more like a Pisces. My moods were like water, flowing every which way, and some days my tears were too. I wasn't feeling inspired by much. All I wanted was to make something, so I leaned into the craft to find some calm, and I could only draw on my melancholy. I named it the Bay for its trapeze silhouette, the same shape as a bay. Even then, I made one of the two magnets on the flap bigger than the other, on purpose, to give it a little more personality. A little hint of joy.

Shell is a slightly pink neutral, close to the natural colour of the hide, and it happened to look just like the inside of a shell.

~ Australian bovine leather made in Queensland, Australia

~ Each hide is natural, so every batch is a little different, with the grain and texture of the animal it came from

~ Available in nine colours: Black Rock, Red Rock, Peppercorn, and our custom colours Mist Blue, Wheat, Matcha, Passata, Fig and Almond

~ Gold-tone hardware and zips

~ Magnetic flap closure, with one magnet bigger than the other

~ Two main compartments, a card pocket and a zip pocket

~ For your plus sized phone, keys, eyewear, passport, a few makeup items and a small wallet

~ Adjustable, removable crossbody strap, from 68cm to 120cm

~ Removable short top handle

~ Made in small batches, so some pieces are ready to ship and others are made to order

~ Made by hand in our Brunswick atelier and with specialist makers in Reservoir and Ballarat

~ Comes packaged with love in an organic cotton dust bag made by the women at SisterWorks

Size: W30cm x H16cm x D7cm

Shell leather is running extremely low. It's a custom colour that needs a minimum order to produce, and the numbers don't stack up for me to reorder it, so this is the end of the road for Shell. There's enough left for a few small bags, wallets and charms, but not enough for a Nurture Tote.