Tire Chic

In celebration of all things le Tour de France (love those biking madmen) - I want to share the very special upcycled inner tube bags of Dante Robles Design with you.

But first - boys!

Mark Cavendish won his first, and hopefully one of many, stage today.  LOVE to watch Cav!

 As always we are rooting for Andy Schleck for over all win.  Go ANDY!

Apologies for the detour (a ha ha ha. not-so-punny),  back to fashion, where we should be.  
Dante Robles Design just won the “Timberland Best Green Handbag” at the Seventh Annual Independent Handbag Design Awards.  Well deserved.  I've been looking around at inner tube creations for some time and these are by far the most refined.  Beautiful!

 

Woven Bucket w/ Removable Fringe

 There's a cool bracelet that converts into a necklace too.

Pedal Power

We are over the moon here ChezPaul about le Tour de France kickoff!  'Watch every day, every year - - how can anyone miss the epic drama and stunning French countryside I ask? Since sweet Andy Schleck is out of the race I'm forced to root for all the Americans, bien sur, and my very favorite Fabian Cancellara, for obvious reasons:-}

Mr. Cancellara, a favorite to win.  Can I be one of the kiss-kiss girls on a podium somewhere?

In fact, it's a great month for the super cool sports, isn't it?  No more boring testosterone sports of football and baseball - bring on the fun ones - gymnastics!  diving!  beach volleyball! foot races!  hurdles!  steeplechase! shot put:-/
Jag and Nevie are beside themselves with anticipation of watching Olympic Gymnastics for the first time.  They've both been training for 2 years and can't wait for big time inspiration.

Also... fun new Quotable Quotes post on EtsyVeg:  http://etsyveg.blogspot.com/.