Pend Oreille Purse (Hand-tooled)
If you take US Highway 95 from Boise up the spine of Idaho, you’ll eventually come to the town of Sandpoint on the shore of Lake Pend Oreille (Pŏn dō-RAY). With a surface area of 148 square miles, Pend Oreille is the 5th deepest lake in the United States. Which makes it ideal for things like…oh, you know…super-secret submarine training. No, really. Lake Pend Oreille was once the home of Farragut Naval Training Base. Created after Pearl Harbor, it was the second largest naval training facility in the entire world. Even today, long after Farragut was decommissioned and turned into a state park – piney forests, swimming beaches, camp grounds, the lot – the lake is still the place where the US Navy likes to test its latest and greatest underwater technology. The Air Force has its Area 51 in Nevada. The Navy has Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho. So…there’s that. But, all that aside, it is simply one of the most beautiful places in the whole wide world. The Lake, the rivers that flow into and out of it, the forest-covered mountains that rise straight up from the blue water. It’s a place where you can really get close to nature. I have a good friend – a college professor – who owns a couple of acres on the shore of the lake. On the land sits a small, 50s-era trailer. No electricity. No running water. That sort of thing. She goes there every summer to get away from students and professors and committees. She goes there to learn how to hear her own thoughts again. She goes to lose herself. And find herself. Pend Oreille is good for that.
The Pend Oreille Purse. A classic “Roper” design, shaped like a desert canteen. Simple. No frills. Big enough for a wallet, cell phone, makeup, keys, pens, pencils, what have you. 16” zipper opens wide for easy access. Adjustable cross-body strap keeps your purse on your person. It’ll serve you well when you’re ready to take that long, north-bound highway.
If you take US Highway 95 from Boise up the spine of Idaho, you’ll eventually come to the town of Sandpoint on the shore of Lake Pend Oreille (Pŏn dō-RAY). With a surface area of 148 square miles, Pend Oreille is the 5th deepest lake in the United States. Which makes it ideal for things like…oh, you know…super-secret submarine training. No, really. Lake Pend Oreille was once the home of Farragut Naval Training Base. Created after Pearl Harbor, it was the second largest naval training facility in the entire world. Even today, long after Farragut was decommissioned and turned into a state park – piney forests, swimming beaches, camp grounds, the lot – the lake is still the place where the US Navy likes to test its latest and greatest underwater technology. The Air Force has its Area 51 in Nevada. The Navy has Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho. So…there’s that. But, all that aside, it is simply one of the most beautiful places in the whole wide world. The Lake, the rivers that flow into and out of it, the forest-covered mountains that rise straight up from the blue water. It’s a place where you can really get close to nature. I have a good friend – a college professor – who owns a couple of acres on the shore of the lake. On the land sits a small, 50s-era trailer. No electricity. No running water. That sort of thing. She goes there every summer to get away from students and professors and committees. She goes there to learn how to hear her own thoughts again. She goes to lose herself. And find herself. Pend Oreille is good for that.
The Pend Oreille Purse. A classic “Roper” design, shaped like a desert canteen. Simple. No frills. Big enough for a wallet, cell phone, makeup, keys, pens, pencils, what have you. 16” zipper opens wide for easy access. Adjustable cross-body strap keeps your purse on your person. It’ll serve you well when you’re ready to take that long, north-bound highway.
If you take US Highway 95 from Boise up the spine of Idaho, you’ll eventually come to the town of Sandpoint on the shore of Lake Pend Oreille (Pŏn dō-RAY). With a surface area of 148 square miles, Pend Oreille is the 5th deepest lake in the United States. Which makes it ideal for things like…oh, you know…super-secret submarine training. No, really. Lake Pend Oreille was once the home of Farragut Naval Training Base. Created after Pearl Harbor, it was the second largest naval training facility in the entire world. Even today, long after Farragut was decommissioned and turned into a state park – piney forests, swimming beaches, camp grounds, the lot – the lake is still the place where the US Navy likes to test its latest and greatest underwater technology. The Air Force has its Area 51 in Nevada. The Navy has Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho. So…there’s that. But, all that aside, it is simply one of the most beautiful places in the whole wide world. The Lake, the rivers that flow into and out of it, the forest-covered mountains that rise straight up from the blue water. It’s a place where you can really get close to nature. I have a good friend – a college professor – who owns a couple of acres on the shore of the lake. On the land sits a small, 50s-era trailer. No electricity. No running water. That sort of thing. She goes there every summer to get away from students and professors and committees. She goes there to learn how to hear her own thoughts again. She goes to lose herself. And find herself. Pend Oreille is good for that.
The Pend Oreille Purse. A classic “Roper” design, shaped like a desert canteen. Simple. No frills. Big enough for a wallet, cell phone, makeup, keys, pens, pencils, what have you. 16” zipper opens wide for easy access. Adjustable cross-body strap keeps your purse on your person. It’ll serve you well when you’re ready to take that long, north-bound highway.
