Enid was a handbag designer from the great state of Texas, from 1959 to 1970. In those years she churned out hand painted and hand dazzled handbags made of wood and paper mache. For the first years, she had only a small cult following in Texas, then a little known store called Nieman Marcus called and placed an order for handbags, catapulting Enid into handbag stardom. An Enid was the "it" bag to carry to the grocery store.
I had no idea who Enid was until I started reading Betty's blog, and read of her obsession of them. Well I thought yeah those are pretty interesting, and wrote it off that I would never find one this far North. Well low and behold, my mom and I went to our regular antique mall while I was home for the holidays and behind some cookie jars, look at the gem I spotted!
Picture via Rhiannon MacBeth on Etsy
That's right in little small town Wisconsin I found a Money Tree!!! I started F-R-E-A-K-I-N-G out in the middle of that store.
So there I now see a new collection beginning, I don't know yet as I've only found one, but there are sooo many that I have been drooling over. I think what I enjoy the most about the Enids are the inside which have a circle mirror and are individually signed and say "Handcrafted for You" and have her logo which is a horse.
Here's a sampling of the ones I've been coveting on Etsy
From IIander's etsy shop
via Gina's Etsy
via CallmeChula's Etsy
via ebay
I also love the tags that came on the bags, maybe I'll find one with the tag someday.
Well I hope you all enjoyed, checking out my new obsession. Do any of you have an Enid?
Over-N-Out
I've never heard of Enid! But those handbags are TOO cool!!
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