Haute Yoga Bags

Bikram yoga is a great stress buster for me--a great opportunity to recharge after a long week of running back and forth from the Nest to Budget Used Furniture to my next furniture pickup or delivery, etc. The class is always challenging, but I always feel so refreshed after I step out of the hot classroom.

There is one thing that is a bit of a headache for me though: getting all of my stuff together to go to yoga--mat, towel, a change of clothes, water, toiletries, etc. I have been used to carrying around lots of heavy bags ever since I was little and had to pack up my things every day to go from my mom's to my dad's to school to sports and back and forth. (Oh the craziness of having divorced parents!)

Now that I'm older, it's the same routine but now I am carrying merchandise from store to store. I can often be seen truckin' back and forth between stores carrying my purse, at least a couple of bags of new inventory, and a cup of tea. So the last thing that I want is to have to carry around 2 more bags to yoga since I have not yet seen a bag that will fit a mat plus all of the other ruckus. To remedy this problem, I made a super cute (if I do say so myself) bag that I gave to my fellow bikram yoga goer mother-in-law for Christmas. She is in love with it and has been making all of her classmates jealous with it. So, once I made one for myself I decided to make a few more for sale at the Nest.

Each bag is made of good quality, thick fabric and has a bottom pocket to slide a mat in, two top pockets so that you can separate your dry clothes from your wet clothes, and a smaller velcro pocket inside to fit toiletries or other small things. Some have outer pockets or designs on them as well. They will all be one-of-a-kind because I hate when I buy something that I think is so unique and cute and see that someone else also has it.

So I'm calling this line of bags "Haute Yoga Bags" thanks to my "hot" bikram yoga roots ;)

That is my novel--probably more of a background than you needed, but oh well :) What do you think of them? Which is your favorite?