I am still buzzing from the incredible time I had at the gig last night! The Fun Loving Criminals were playing the Forum in Kentish Town, North London. It is a Mean Fiddler venue and I love Mean Fiddler venues. We were right at the barricade, so cool!

I have always been more of a pockets or back pack girl, but seem to have developed a bit of a bag habit. Not necessarily handbags, those too, but also bags that look like they want to go on adventures. Now that I can no longer deny that I might well be a grown up, I am trying to accessorise occasionally. Luckily this challenge came in a handbag week, not a backpack week. Plus in the interests of total honesty, I am including my handbag that I was using last week, which still has a bunch of crap I need in it, so I keep delving into it.
Handbag #1
Loaded this up to go on a training day on Monday - so you wouldn't think there would be too much random yet, eh?

• CD-Rom about Egyptians (on approval for school)
• recorded delivery slip for a circle journal
• wallet (contains cards, £10 and some change, dry cleaning ticket for frocks for a ball on Friday, and my little sister's molar)
• an A5 sheet of paper with numbers stamped all over it by a little girl in my class
• Clarins handcream
• asthma inhaler
• a random fiver
• digital camera (Nikon Coolpix 4200)
• keys (house, car, work, suitcases, heavy silver heart keychain)
• a fuschia felt pen, with pen at one end and smiley happy stamp at other (for stamping hands of children that finished all their lunch)
• name badge from work
• nail file
• Smints
• cheap lipstick for putting noses on children dressed as Clever Cats last Friday
• black eyeliner
• 3 black pens, 2 x 0.5 and a 0.7
• a loose penny
• an orange triangle of card
• strip from edge of stamps and backing from airmail sticker (I don't like to leave rubbish on the post office counter and mailed a card to my sister -another one- today
• an old travel card that I could claim £2.20 from work for
• business card from the web-editing company that trained me yesterday

Nonsense things to have in your bag! And have I now selected the essentials and binned/replaced the rest? Or have I just put them all back in? You decide...

Handbag #2
I've been raiding this all weekend, so not much left, but what is in there, is GOLD.

• Creative Zen Micro MP3 player
• Caffe Nero loyalty card
• 2 pence coin
• Scraporium receipt for Love Your Handwriting
• bright green plastic Robots watch that came out of a cereal box on holiday

So this whole, accessorising, being a grown-up thing. I haven't quite got it yet I think.

Ching's Meme Challenge on UKS:

a meme n (mëm): is an idea that is shared and passed from blog to blog, like a question posted in one blog and answered in many other blogs.

UKS MeMe Challenge #2(You have til Monday, Sept 26th to play)

Hmmm, a girl is defined by her handbag, I think. If I were to find your handbag and look inside, what would I find? What does your handbag look like? Do you change handbags often? If so, how often and for what reason?
(play fair, no cleaning out your handbag before participating in this meme)