I‘m a blogger. And, I’m a mom. Both of these roles sometimes require toting a camera around and snapping photos. I have had my Canon Rebel for about a year now. And, I’ve carried it back and forth across the country in a tote bag to conferences and events and to every school band performance.
Why did I carry it in a tote bag? I’ll confess. It is because I thought camera cases were all ugly. Honestly, I just didn’t want to carry around an ugly camera bag and a purse and maybe even a tote bag all slung over my shoulders like an awkward tourist, a geek or crazy picture taking blogger mom. I’m not the most fashion obsessed girl on the block, but I do have a little pride.
As I was preparing to go to NYC for a week, I started to wonder how I was going to carry everything around a big city efficiently and stylishly. In NYC you don’t just “run back to to the hotel” to grab an umbrella, you know what I mean? Most of the time you have to plan ahead and carry what you’ll need for the entire day, cause it is a big city!
So before I left Seattle, I found a stylish solution for all my travel carryon stuff. A Clover Epiphanie Bag! This teal beauty (pictured above in teal) had plenty of room for everything I needed. I carried my umbrella, my wallet, my gum and lip gloss, my sunglasses, phone and there was still plenty of padded compartments for my camera — and every other little thing I needed to carry around with me!
Granted, the Clover not a tiny bag. But the beauty of this particular bag is it is compartmentalized inside, so you don’t lose things down in the black pit at the bottom of the bag. Everything had a place and I could find things quite easily. And even if my bag was dropped or smashed, it still protected my camera much better than my tote bag would!
I may decide to get a smaller camera bag as well, for times when I don’t want to carry so many things or need to carry something a bit smaller. But, I have to tell you that I literally carried this around NYC on my shoulder with all that stuff in it and it worked out great! It fit perfectly under the seat in the airplane too, so it was the perfect carryon bag. No purse or extra bag required!
And someday, when my dream comes true and I get my own iPad, it will slip right into this bag and all will be well with the world.
Girls’ Day Out in NYC!
One of the other fun days I had in NYC was a “girls’ day out” with Kate from Centsational Girl. We had a great time! You might have seen a few of the pics of the amazing things we saw via Instagram or Facebook or in my other posts so I’m going to let her show you the rest including an AMAZING fabric store! Check out her Spring in NYC post here!
Giveaway time!
I like my camera bag so much, I arranged for YOU to have a chance to win an Epiphanie Bag of your choice! YAHOO! So leave a comment on which one you’d choose and I’ll select a random winner on Friday! Good luck!
Epiphanie is not a sponsor of The Inspired Room, nor was I paid for this post. But they did give me a bag at no charge! As always, my opinions are my own.
