Bohemia Bunny

Would you like to check out my package?

June 15th, 2008 by lynnylchan under Leisure

I ordered 2 different packages from the USA while I was back home in KL, expecting them to take at least 2 weeks to arrive. I may have underestimated the efficiency of whatever logistics providers Threadless and the US Mail use, because they arrived within a week. Hooray!

The first one to arrive was my leather handbag, which I purchased from an Etsy seller. Etsy is like eBay for quirky, handmade, individualised stuff. After the big leather-goods brands failed to offer me anything attractive in the way of a full-leather, stylish handbag, I turned to the Internet. Lo and behold! A bag. It wasn’t any cheaper than those in the shopping malls, but it’s pretty much one-of-a-kind, handmade, and unique. I don’t like having a bag that’s just like what someone else has, and being able to say that my bag is unbranded because I bought it off the net, instead of being another run-of-the-mill Coach or Gucci or LV - it satisfies my inner (outer?) geek.

The packaging is pretty simple, which I don’t have an issue with. It’s a leather bag, it’s supposed to be durable. If it can’t survive shipping, it won’t survive life with me. The green tracing paper is a cute touch.

My deliciously brown leather bag. Sorry vegans, but nothing beats the smooth feel and sniffable-ness of real leather. I love the smell of leather in the morning. And afternoon. And evening, and any damn time I feel like smelling leather!

Cute and quirky! I like the big polka dots. Circles, being a regular, um, monogon, calm me. I can put the bag over my head, shine a light inside, and have a disco-ball hallucination.

Oh! An awesomeness-proving package, for me? How kind!

I love you Threadless. They’ve upgraded from the plain greyish-white courier bags of the past. Goes along with opening your own physical store and having your own brand of t-shirts, I suppose.

My order. The white and gold shirts are my sister’s, while the silver and blue ones are mine. Threadless is slowly phasing out the American Apparel shirts, so my silver one (”Camouflage”, if you must know) might very well be the last one I buy that’s printed on American Apparel.

I should really do a census of my Threadless shirts. I know I have more than a week’s worth, but do I have 2 weeks’ worth? 14 Threadless shirts would mean my students can play a decent game of “which shirt will she wear today”.