dari giveaway!
Happy Friday Frillows! Fridays are always a little better when the sun is shining and when I have something fabulous to giveaway! The talented Karen Park behind the Etsy shop Dari is generously giving away this Ketase Bag. This slouchy hobo bag is made from an African wax print. The fabric came from Zambia and is printed using a unique mechanical process developed to imitate handmade Indonesian batik. The technique is now used exclusively to produce African wax print fabrics. The result is a hardy fabric with a cool waxy, textured sheen. Thanks Karen for all of this great information about your bag.
In order for one lucky person to win you’ll have to dig deep to answer the following question: “What is the most exotic place in the world you would like to travel and what supplies would you carry in the bag to get you through?” You have until Tuesday June 23, 2009 to answer!
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June 20th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I don’t know if it’s exotic but I’m going to Buenos Aires in a few weeks and I’m EXCITED. The best think I can think of to carry in this great bag is a tiny Argentinian guide who can help me speak Spanish and tell my where to go so that I don’t look like a tourist!
June 20th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I think Fiji would be pretty exotic.. I think I’d carry a few books and TONS of sunscreen.. and that’s it!
June 20th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I would like to go to the island of Santorini. In the bag I would put my wallet, a couple of books, a hairbrush and my iPod.
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June 20th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
India: to view the colors, the sounds, the culture, and to experience large masses of people. I also feel it is important to encounter and understand poverty in order to 1.) cherish what we have and 2.) to learn that we all need to be activists and take steps to help others.
In my bag:
I would take a language guide, so that I could communicate with people. I would also take a camera to document my experience so that I could share it with others. I would also put a notebook in to capture my thoughts. Besides these things, I would also have all the basics (i.e., money, id, and probably sunscreen because I am incredibly fair skinned)
June 21st, 2009 at 4:09 pm
It may not seem exotic to some, but I have never been to Mexico and would love to go. In my bag would be my IDs, money, lip balm, gum, small digital camera and my little notebook.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
I dream of visiting the Ice Hotel in Lapland, Sweden with my husband and son. To get to the hotel you travel on a dog sled through the wilderness, and along the way you might be lucky enough to see the Northern Lights. I would carry a camera, hand and toe warmers and my son’s favorite smiley snacks.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:57 am
I would go to New Zealand – it’s long been on my list of “favorite places I’ve never visited” and I’d take along with me my South African rugby jersey to remind the Kiwis that we are the world champions, after all, and also would take my essentials that are with me wherever I go… lipbalm, gum, hand cream, band aids for blisters, camera and of course Advil!
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I would love to go to the South Pacific, Fiji, Cook Islands, etc. Mostly because it’s my husbands dream to go there someday and I’d like to see him accomplish that goal. Also because it look so beautiful there (!!!) and it seems unattainable in a way (it’s jut such a long plane ride, haha)
In the bag I would carry sun tan lotion and my camera. I’d burn without the first and have major withdrawals without the second. : ) Of course money, a passport and a swim suit wouldn’t hurt either!
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June 23rd, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I want to go to Venice, Italy. My bag will be filled with a dictionary, snacks, money (in my new wallet from Italy), a notebook, phone, and most importantly my camera!!! I will be taking a million of pictures and framing the best ones for my pad.
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
The exotic trip of my dreams is…..Spain into Morocco!
It would start in Seville, Spain where we would wander the gorgeous town squares, drink sangria, eat amazing salty tapas, take in the intoxicating scents of orange blossoms and listen to sexy flamenco music.
From there we head to fes, morocco – supposedly one of the most romantic, and oldest medieval cities in the world – where we would immerse ourselves in the colorful markets, exuberant colors of tile in the mosques, gorgeous fabrics of the Kasbahs and explore the mysterious maze of streets too small for cars, lined with exotic shops.
In this lovely purse – whose colors are perfect for the journey – I would carry my camera, lonely planet guide, passport, lots of Moroccan currency and euros for seville, evian mist for those steamy nights, kai to freshen up, and a brag book full of pictures of my son – since this would be purely an adult vacation!
When can I leave?
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:23 pm
My exotic trip would be to Thailand where I would scuba dive in the mornings and then spend the late afternoons and evenings taking Thai cooking classes in between fabric and textile scavenging. I’ve learned over the years to travel light and so in my bag I would carry my camera, a travel journal, a good pen, sunblock for my face, and my binoculars for when I spot a new bird. I’d also have a scarf tied to it so I could wrap my very curly and potentially frizzy hair during my humid journey. Oh, and yes I’d have a wallet inside. Should I bring my iPhone? Naaahhhh. If Jacque Kennedy Onassis didn’t need a phone when she travelled why should I? (But I’ guess she had “people.”)
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Bazaruto Island situated off Mozambique; peace, solitude, beautiful, enchanting, exotic and ecologically amazing. Sounds like my kind of place, one where I can truly decompress.
And what I would put in my bag; my passport, credit card, bathing suit, a book, sunscreen, and a few snacks. Decompressing takes less stuff and the bag looks like the right size.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Oh there are so many places on this beautiful earth that I want to visit…but at the top the list, hands down, is Israel. I have wanted to travel there since high school.
It is just about the one place my parents would not ‘allow’ me to travel to then, and now that I’m older, they ask and I concede…sigh…someday…I pray. I dream of it.
I would pack extremely light.
Camera.
Passport.
My amazing Greek leather sandals (remember when I got them Lark?) that are still in incredible condition and keep my feet cool and comfortable for hours upon hours of sightseeing.
My long white skirt.
A cotton long sleeved shirt for the religious sites which dictate modesty.
Money.
And a Lonely Planet.
Armed with those essentials, and my sense of adventure, I think it would be the trip of a lifetime. Now if I could only book it!
June 24th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Antarctica for sure. I’m usually not a big fan of freezing, but I think I could hang with the right down-filled snuggie
I suppose there is no light packing for a trip to the farthest south on this blue planet … those life preserving items aside, my new ketase bag would be used for my camera – how many pictures could I take of the beautiful nakedness of Antartica! Plenty. A video recorder for movie making of my expedition, binoculars to animal watch from afar (wouldn’t want to intrude), walkie-talkie for the hot back and forth between me and the scientist at base camp, and a radio because I need my tunes and, last but not least, my bigelow minty gloss because I’m totally addicted.
I might have to place this little bag in a bigger, more weather-proof bag, but it would be like my little secret stash, my girlie bag amidst parkas and ski masks …
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