To tramp the streets of New York is one of the most rewarding means of transportation in the city. Sure a bus is great and the winter carriage is a lot of fun but neither compares to the city sites by foot; and all I need to carry is my coach soho signature hobo bag.
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I never knew how much the city had to offer while in college. After all I was a bit of a recluse staying up late, trudging through endless hours of study and chasing down professors getting check lists signed off. I really didn't have much time for anything else.
Every so often I would make it to a soccer or basketball game but soon all was well rewarded when on graduation day my mother gave me a special gift and I will never forget what she said. She said, "Alley, a women's purse is her signature carriage, so take this with you wherever you go and let the world open itself up to you."
I really didn't know what she meant at the time but later I came to understand that when you present yourself with confidence, the world becomes your stomping ground. So what I found in my bag was reliance, self assurance and most importantly, confidence.
Coach Soho Signature Small Hobo
I can remember the pink bicycle carriage you got me for my unicorn huffy two wheeler or the hours we spent drawing all over the fence with chalk as daddy looked on as to say, what are they up to know?
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Or when I would come home from school crying because I was smaller than all the other kids and you would tell me, "The greatest things come in the smallest of packages". Or the first day I got on the school bus to embark on the next passage of life.
I can remember like it was yesterday coming home from soccer or basketball games dirty from head to toe; and that never changing smile on your face as though you were so proud to clean up the muddy foot prints I would track in after practice.
And I will never forget the day I graduated from college and the coach signature small hobo bag you gave me as a gift to enter the world as strong, independent and confident women. To this day, what stays with me is how the things I treasure the most really do come in the smallest of packages.
So as I tramp the streets of New York no longer a recluse, I just wanted to tell you how thankful I am for having a wonderful mother like you, who shaped me with love into the woman I am today.
Signed with love,
Alley
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Or when I would come home from school crying because I was smaller than all the other kids and you would tell me, "The greatest things come in the smallest of packages". Or the first day I got on the school bus to embark on the next passage of life.
I can remember like it was yesterday coming home from soccer or basketball games dirty from head to toe; and that never changing smile on your face as though you were so proud to clean up the muddy foot prints I would track in after practice.
And I will never forget the day I graduated from college and the coach signature small hobo bag you gave me as a gift to enter the world as strong, independent and confident women. To this day, what stays with me is how the things I treasure the most really do come in the smallest of packages.
So as I tramp the streets of New York no longer a recluse, I just wanted to tell you how thankful I am for having a wonderful mother like you, who shaped me with love into the woman I am today.
Signed with love,
Alley
Coach Soho Signature Small Flap
I am loading the bus with kids headed off to their soccer game one day when one of the kids tugged at my pant leg and spoke in this squeaky little voice with tears falling from his heartbroken little eyes, "Mrs. Vanderwheel, do you think I am too small to be a good soccer player? The other kids make fun of me because I am so much smaller then they are."
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My heart was soft with love for this tiny little player. While digging in my coach soho signature small flap bag for a tissue, I also searched my memory archives for the right things to say. "Of course you are, let me tell you a story. There was once this boy. He was so small that all the other kids made fun of him for wanting to become a famous basketball player. His mother assured him that if he tried with all his might, and believed that he could do anything he wanted.
So he practiced harder and longer then the rest of the kids day in and day out until one day he grew up to become the smallest basketball player ever signed to the NBA and his name was Muggsy Bogues of the New York Knicks."
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My heart was soft with love for this tiny little player. While digging in my coach soho signature small flap bag for a tissue, I also searched my memory archives for the right things to say. "Of course you are, let me tell you a story. There was once this boy. He was so small that all the other kids made fun of him for wanting to become a famous basketball player. His mother assured him that if he tried with all his might, and believed that he could do anything he wanted.
So he practiced harder and longer then the rest of the kids day in and day out until one day he grew up to become the smallest basketball player ever signed to the NBA and his name was Muggsy Bogues of the New York Knicks."
Coach Soho Multi Print Wallet
You know, I thought that coaching multilingual basketball and soccer teams was a challenge. Having taken a new job in a New York multimedia poster printing studio; I realize that it is easier to get a mass of multicultural children on the bus then it is to get one of these printing machines to speak in my language.
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So anyways, one of my assignments was to take a printable copy of their next sales pitch and print it into a poster and leave it in their 'out going carriage'. This task proved rather difficult and I had a deadline that I knew I wasn't going to be able to meet. So I did what any other woman firm in her actions would do. I told my boss I quit in a multiple of different languages.
And as I was leaving I opened my coach soho multi print wallet and pulled out my business card suggesting that if they ever need a person to translate, then I would be their girl. As luck would have it, my boss was so impressed with my affirmations that she hired me on as her personal assistant. Now I get paid to travel around the world and attend very insightful meetings as a translator.
Coach Soho Multi Print Wallet on Ebay
So anyways, one of my assignments was to take a printable copy of their next sales pitch and print it into a poster and leave it in their 'out going carriage'. This task proved rather difficult and I had a deadline that I knew I wasn't going to be able to meet. So I did what any other woman firm in her actions would do. I told my boss I quit in a multiple of different languages.
And as I was leaving I opened my coach soho multi print wallet and pulled out my business card suggesting that if they ever need a person to translate, then I would be their girl. As luck would have it, my boss was so impressed with my affirmations that she hired me on as her personal assistant. Now I get paid to travel around the world and attend very insightful meetings as a translator.
Coach Soho Signature Patchwork Flap Handbag
I absolutely love arts and crafts and was inspired to learn how to quilt after examining my coach soho signature patchwork flap handbag. It is so infallibly crafted like the seams of a soccer or basketball. You could put this purse under a New York City bus and it would still retain its integrity.
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Needless to say, I was so impressed with its craftsmanship that I got some coaching at a nearby quilt shop. When I signed in for the class I couldn't help but notice that under the category that read, "Please specify interest", that nearly all had signed up to learn how to sew leather.
What I found rather ironic was that the instructor used a Coach bag as our protocol. Without hesitation she says, "Does anyone know why I chose this particular bag as our goal?" When no one answered, not even myself, she started to explain in detail its history, tradition, methods and the art of art itself.
So as the lesson was wrapped up for the day. I was left with a more intense appreciation for tradition, art, fine craftsmanship and how hard and honest work produces some of the greatest things we have today. Things that are likely to live on long after I go.
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Needless to say, I was so impressed with its craftsmanship that I got some coaching at a nearby quilt shop. When I signed in for the class I couldn't help but notice that under the category that read, "Please specify interest", that nearly all had signed up to learn how to sew leather.
What I found rather ironic was that the instructor used a Coach bag as our protocol. Without hesitation she says, "Does anyone know why I chose this particular bag as our goal?" When no one answered, not even myself, she started to explain in detail its history, tradition, methods and the art of art itself.
So as the lesson was wrapped up for the day. I was left with a more intense appreciation for tradition, art, fine craftsmanship and how hard and honest work produces some of the greatest things we have today. Things that are likely to live on long after I go.
Coach Soho Pocket Tote
I was sitting on a bus in New York heading to work one day when I couldn't help but notice a women sitting next me. Her purse was ever so captivating. When I asked her about it she smiled and laughed, "Ha, ha, you don't even know how many times someone asks me that. This is my coach soho pocket tote."
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Don't really know why it caught my eye. Maybe it was the size, like a cute little carriage bag that was so eloquently perched on her lap as though the world ceased to exist but for the shimmer of this bag coaching every female eye as if casting a magic spell.
Following the magical showcase like a basketball bouncing across an infomercial at 2 am guiding my actions like a soccer ball strategically placed on the soccer field set to establish a perfect goal kick.
All the while hearing the subliminal message replay in my head, "you have to have it". Meanwhile distracting my senses from anything other than establishing ownership of one of those magical little bags. As I left the bus that day I realized that I could not lead normal life until I got it out of my mind and into my hands.
Coach Soho Pocket Tote on Ebay
Don't really know why it caught my eye. Maybe it was the size, like a cute little carriage bag that was so eloquently perched on her lap as though the world ceased to exist but for the shimmer of this bag coaching every female eye as if casting a magic spell.
Following the magical showcase like a basketball bouncing across an infomercial at 2 am guiding my actions like a soccer ball strategically placed on the soccer field set to establish a perfect goal kick.
All the while hearing the subliminal message replay in my head, "you have to have it". Meanwhile distracting my senses from anything other than establishing ownership of one of those magical little bags. As I left the bus that day I realized that I could not lead normal life until I got it out of my mind and into my hands.
Coach Soho Signature Large Hobo
I get so tired of small carriage bags! These days with my busy schedule coaching soccer and basketball for my kid's middle school teams; I just don't have the time or energy to lug around several small bags anymore. I need something better. Lugging around that many bags is like my life is signed with the mark of the recluse disassociated with modern living.
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I need something larger than the largest but conservative enough so that I don't look like a New York City tramp. What I need is something like a coach soho signature large hobo bag. It is big enough to load cleats and extra jerseys for the kid who always seems to forget and costumes for Darla's ballet rehearsals.
With five kids, two toddlers, one in college and the other two involved with every activity from sports to out of school activities like Darla's ballet classes and David's Cub Scout meetings, it is so nice to have a bag big enough to accommodate my needs with a little class.
A bag that doesn't make me look over done at a soccer game or under done at a ballet recital but most importantly, durable enough to withstand my two toddlers, 30lbs. and even tug-o-war between Darla and David, without the seems ripping. Yes, that is what I am talking about, a bag that is big and strong as a bus.
Coach Soho Signature Large Hobo on Ebay
I need something larger than the largest but conservative enough so that I don't look like a New York City tramp. What I need is something like a coach soho signature large hobo bag. It is big enough to load cleats and extra jerseys for the kid who always seems to forget and costumes for Darla's ballet rehearsals.
With five kids, two toddlers, one in college and the other two involved with every activity from sports to out of school activities like Darla's ballet classes and David's Cub Scout meetings, it is so nice to have a bag big enough to accommodate my needs with a little class.
A bag that doesn't make me look over done at a soccer game or under done at a ballet recital but most importantly, durable enough to withstand my two toddlers, 30lbs. and even tug-o-war between Darla and David, without the seems ripping. Yes, that is what I am talking about, a bag that is big and strong as a bus.
Coach Soho Leather Small Hobo
I was recently looking through my closet doing a little spring cleaning when I came across an old coach soho leather small hobo bag that I haven't used in years. So aside from the pile of old furniture, soccer and basketball equipment, old boots and luggage, I also came across my old suede motorcycle biker jacket.
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Living in a small New York suburb for so long starts to make a girl feel like a recluse. So while sorting through the smaller pile of stuff, I found a carriage that I use to attach to my bike and inside was an old pair of chaps I used to wear on the road that I swear made me look like a tramp.
Often times these kinds of memories trigger a need to feel young again so I decided to surprise my husband and pick him up after he was done coaching practice at our son's high school. When I pulled up, the biggest grin I had seen in years engulfed his face....and as the kids loaded the bus for home; George and I rode off into the distance, we held hands and remembered that sometimes the greatest things come in the smallest of packages.
Coach Soho Leather Small Hobo on Ebay
Living in a small New York suburb for so long starts to make a girl feel like a recluse. So while sorting through the smaller pile of stuff, I found a carriage that I use to attach to my bike and inside was an old pair of chaps I used to wear on the road that I swear made me look like a tramp.
Often times these kinds of memories trigger a need to feel young again so I decided to surprise my husband and pick him up after he was done coaching practice at our son's high school. When I pulled up, the biggest grin I had seen in years engulfed his face....and as the kids loaded the bus for home; George and I rode off into the distance, we held hands and remembered that sometimes the greatest things come in the smallest of packages.
Coach Soho Leather Hobo
I remember back in my biker days when my husband Rodney and I would saddle up the motorcycle carriage with everything from boots to rolled up blankets and rally in the days that seemed to never end.
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I laugh now because I must have looked like a tramp riding recluse in the backseat decked out in my suede leather jacket complete with tassels! The motor running, all the boys standing around some off the map diner discussing the next route and rest stops and coaching the newbie's on proper "biker" nomenclature.
But gone are the days when we rode free in the wind never really knowing where we were going, what we were doing and what to expect next. Today we find ourselves cooped up at home doing "normal" everyday New York things like walking our kid to the bus stop or coaching soccer and basketball.
The other day however, Rodney rolled out his bike and we decided to take a stroll down memory lane for our 35th wedding anniversary. He is just as romantic today as he was back in our days. On the backseat instead of rolled up blankets and boots, he surprised me with a Coach Soho Leather Hobo purse; and as I slung it over my shoulder and wrapped my arms around Rodney's ever growing waistline, I couldn't help but feel as special and wonderful today as I did forty years ago. All I need now is some new furniture.
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I laugh now because I must have looked like a tramp riding recluse in the backseat decked out in my suede leather jacket complete with tassels! The motor running, all the boys standing around some off the map diner discussing the next route and rest stops and coaching the newbie's on proper "biker" nomenclature.
But gone are the days when we rode free in the wind never really knowing where we were going, what we were doing and what to expect next. Today we find ourselves cooped up at home doing "normal" everyday New York things like walking our kid to the bus stop or coaching soccer and basketball.
The other day however, Rodney rolled out his bike and we decided to take a stroll down memory lane for our 35th wedding anniversary. He is just as romantic today as he was back in our days. On the backseat instead of rolled up blankets and boots, he surprised me with a Coach Soho Leather Hobo purse; and as I slung it over my shoulder and wrapped my arms around Rodney's ever growing waistline, I couldn't help but feel as special and wonderful today as I did forty years ago. All I need now is some new furniture.
Black Soho Coach Bag
When I first caught wind of the African zebra patch work on the Soho I nearly jumped as high as a professional basketball player making a slam dunk. Swoosh! I scooped it up without delay and hit the streets of New York in style.
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This black soho coach bag was just what I needed for a bus ride to Manhattan to watch a soccer game with some friends. No doubt I could use it to knock a robber in the head if someone tried anything funny on the way. Besides that it had enough room in it that I could carry some extras in case I got stranded somewhere or decided to stay the night there.
Funny thing about my new tote, even my guy friends like it. They usually make fun of me for having to have Coaches. So I was shocked when they complimented me on my new selection instead of making fun every time I picked it up.
I cannot wait for the newest designs and patchworks to come out. If I had it my way I would be buying them up by the bus load, then again, if I did then you couldn't get your own.
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This black soho coach bag was just what I needed for a bus ride to Manhattan to watch a soccer game with some friends. No doubt I could use it to knock a robber in the head if someone tried anything funny on the way. Besides that it had enough room in it that I could carry some extras in case I got stranded somewhere or decided to stay the night there.
Funny thing about my new tote, even my guy friends like it. They usually make fun of me for having to have Coaches. So I was shocked when they complimented me on my new selection instead of making fun every time I picked it up.
I cannot wait for the newest designs and patchworks to come out. If I had it my way I would be buying them up by the bus load, then again, if I did then you couldn't get your own.
Pink Soho Coach Purse
What an endearing friend to have on a wet and dreary New York day. As I clutch my Pink Soho Coach Purse close to my heart, a bus full of school children drives by on their way to a soccer game jolting my memory.
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It wasn't too long ago that I myself was on one of those little buses on my way to a basketball game with the rest of the kids. I can still remember my own mother sitting in the stands cheering me on with one fist in the air screaming, "Go Cindy!", and in the other hand her handbag.
As the years went by I grew into my mother. Now sending my daughter off to school or cheering her on in the stadium with one fist in the air cheering, "You can do it Elizabeth", and all the while in my right, one of the many bags or wallets cheering away with me.
So as I walk whimsical in my thoughts, Soho in hand; I can feel good about passing on this lovely tradition and memory to my own daughter. But as for today, as it rains down, pit pat, pit pat on the top of my umbrella; I will do it the New York way and stop in for a nice hot cup of java.
Pink Soho Coach Purse on Ebay
It wasn't too long ago that I myself was on one of those little buses on my way to a basketball game with the rest of the kids. I can still remember my own mother sitting in the stands cheering me on with one fist in the air screaming, "Go Cindy!", and in the other hand her handbag.
As the years went by I grew into my mother. Now sending my daughter off to school or cheering her on in the stadium with one fist in the air cheering, "You can do it Elizabeth", and all the while in my right, one of the many bags or wallets cheering away with me.
So as I walk whimsical in my thoughts, Soho in hand; I can feel good about passing on this lovely tradition and memory to my own daughter. But as for today, as it rains down, pit pat, pit pat on the top of my umbrella; I will do it the New York way and stop in for a nice hot cup of java.
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