Wish List Wednesday - The Cambridge Satchel Company's New Poppy Bag

The newest item to be added to Wish List Wednesday is the new Poppy Bag from The Cambridge Satchel Company. Have you seen it? As I'm sure you all know I am a massive Cambridge Satchel fan, I was gifted the Classic Satchel in oxblood by my sister for my 30th and received the medium Push Lock in red when I left my previous job - yes I know I'm a lucky bunny!

Cambridge Satchels are great quality and made from 100% leather in the UK. They are all hand made in their factory in the Midlands. It was all started by Julie Deane, starting with a £600 budget brain storming in her kitchen with her mother. They started with an order of 6 classic vintage style brown satchels. The first of their famous bright satchels was created with off-cuts from a run of belts at the manufacturers and the post-box red bag was picked up by stylists for Italian Vouge. Before they knew it they were in with Bloggers and the Fashion Pack and production moved up from 3 bags a week to nearly nearly 100.

These days, after opening their own factory, they are producing over 3,000 bags a week, including a mens range and collaborations with derringers like Vivian Westwood. They have expanded past the satchel into other classic handbag styles, always keeping it simple and stylish. 

The Poppy Collection is the newest release from The Cambridge Satchel Company and has 3 designs including the Poppy Bag, the Mini Poppy and the Poppy Backpack in a variety of colours, brights and autumnal for the next season. The have based the bags on a traditional Doctor's Bag and added their signature push lock closure for a clean, modern finish. This makes it much roomier than previous Cambridge bags and practical to open and close. 

I'm a massive fan of the full size Poppy Bag in black, it's a great size for day to day but looks classier than my current standard canvas bag. Pop(py) over to their website to see the whole range and let me know which is your favourite xx 

Wish List Wednesday - Ollie & Nic’s Delicious Apple bag

Good news! The internet is back up and running in The Clubhouse again! The lovely man from Virgin came and fixed it on Sunday afternoon – this did mean we had to take down the fort we’d build in the livingroom earlier than we had planned but it was worth it to save the data on my phone!  …And yes we build a fort, after the craziness of August and having guests every weekend we decided that we would hibernate for the first weekend in September. It was a super fort with fairy lights and a wall banner that says ‘Hello Sailor’ that my best friend Ginge made me!

Enough of my rambling and back on with Wish List Wednesday! This week I’m swooping after Ollie & Nic’s Delicious Apple bag, to be honest I’ve been swooning over it for years and never need able to justify buying it to myself but I think this might be the year I finally splash out (or put it top of my Christmas list). I first saw it when Ollie and Nic had a shop in Union Square in Aberdeen, I would go in and visit it in my lunch break, have long discussions with friends about how much I wanted it but really it wasn’t practical. Basically I had a crush on it. As with all crushes I eventually stopped visiting it when the shop moved further away, every now and again it would pop into my head and I’d smile but I was never really over it.

Isn't she adorable!

In the last year or so there has been a massive growth in kitch and fruity looking handbags – I bought the orange slice and chocolate bar bags from New Look, these all echoed the Apple bag back into my thoughts.

Ohhhh look inside...

The bag it’s self is a red rattan and apple shaped with a detachable shoulder strap and grab handles. It is lined with a polkadot material and the popper close fastening looks like a stalk and even has a leaf detail attached to it. With an internal pocket and stud feet its practical too. Personally this would be a date night or night out with the girls bag for me and would have a treasured spot on display the rest of the time.