Tales of the Traveling Tote, Serendipity

 

Welcome to a very special Tales of the Traveling Tote!

 

 

 

 

Today we are celebrating our 5th anniversary of travels!

Our founder, Patti@Pandora’s box emailed us last fall to say

that she had been in touch with MacKenzie-Childs,

and told them how much love we have for all things MacKenzie-Childs,

and how we post adventures with our named MacKenzie-Childs tote bags

 

 

 

 

She then told us that MacKenzie-Childs was going to send us each a gift!

The anticipation was fierce!

We all were so excited, thinking that it would be a small gift…

but little did we know that a team from MacKenzie-Childs had visited all of our blogs,

and designed a one of a kind gift for each of us!

 

 

 

 

It was exciting as the boxes slowly made it across country to their destinations

The girls in the Northeast, Patti & Deb were first to get theirs

The next day Rita’s arrived in West Virginia…

The third day our Alabama chapter, Emily, Ricki Jill and I received ours…

We  got ours about the same time that afternoon and texted each other as we opened

So exciting!

 

 

 

 

Patti asked us not to show anyone until we all had received our gifts

 

 

 

Next Cherry Kay and Sarah got theirs in Oklahoma and Texas

 

 

 

 

And finally the last boxes arrived in Utah for Jackie and California for Linda

 

 

 

 

I opened my gift to find a hand written note to me!

 

 

 

 

Well, Hello Gorgeous!

 

 

 

This was definitely a day of serendipity!

Serendipity: {noun}  the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way: a fortunate stroke of serendipity

Each handmade incredible tote has a personality all it’s own, with different fabrics, colors and designs, yet they all were made in the same style with the same straps and gold MacKenzie-Childs label

 

 

 

 

 

For our first adventure with our new totes we all visited a carousel

 

 

 

 

I met Emily and Ricki Jill at a local Birmingham area mall

 

 

 

 

 

We managed to snap a few quick picks before the ride opened

 

 

 

 

I brought Miss Coquille and Hello Gorgeous

 

 

 

 

We took a “sleigh ride” before heading to lunch

 

 

 

 

Here are all the Tales of the Traveling Tote members on their carousels

 

 

 

 

Please visit all the Tales of the Traveling Tote members

to show MacKenzie-Childs some love

and leave a comment to enter the giveaway!

 

Thank you so much MacKenzie-Childs!!!