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It took her awhile..but Iola finally did it..she found her forbidden fruit, all spiny and prickly, but looking as fresh as can be despite her sour attitude about it all. Lucky for her, and us, it’s never too late to find your own Forbidden Fruit. Our newest addition to our Birthday Cards, get it here… Etsy

It’s that time of year, the time when parades of cattle go tromping through downtown Denver streets headed to the National Western Complex for a 3 week long event of the highest magnitude of good ole American ranching. The National Western Stock show in the historic stockyards and Coliseum. It’s rodeo’ing, bargaining for heifer semen, weighing swine, swilling soda, auctioning steer, shaving cow legs, riding sheep and competing for walls of ribbons. We love it. We never want to miss the opportunity to get poop and straw on our shoes and corndogs in our bellies. We hope it never ends because truly it reminds us that there people out there still living life making a honest days work out of running cattle and raising goats. This year we brought back some photos. Hope you enjoy. Be sure you click to enlarge and view em the way you would out on the back of a horse..well..not exactly, but they are bigger….

This is Craig Miller Sr and his granddaughter Brook. Craig Miller Sr has been a part of RedCamper’s success from day one, 8 years ago when we set out on the path of tote making. He and his team at American National Manufacturing worked with RedCamper to create something that had never been done before, a purse made of 35mm slides. Not just slide sheets sewn together, but a custom made, radio frequency welded, durable, panel set made of two types of transparents created from custom tools and dies and an ingenious air pump system made to create cozy little air filled pockets to protect our precious cargo. It was a feat of engineering brilliance. Or maybe just plain awesome for us.  Our totes have never been a big business for him, but he has always been nothing less than amazing to us. He and his son are at the center of keeping American manufacturing alive with pride, and we are so thankful there are still people like them in this world. Thank you, Craig Miller Sr., for all the years.

We’ve been slacking on the blog entries. The holidays got the best of us. But we got some r&r and we are getting ramped up for a super great year. Hold on. While you are waiting here is a kinda entertaining commercial for Delta baggage app. No we aren’t sponsored by Delta, but we love watching luggage get moved around. Enjoy, and Happy New Year!

Good Monday Morning!

Turns out Miriam Benders souvenir coconut is a highly desirable object with the Boulder, Colorado shoppers. Who would have thought? Countless times the coconut drew the hands and eyes of older ladies, little boys, hipster men with snappy man bags and about to give labor pregnant women. Turns out we’re not the only coconut lovers. Thank you, Miriam, for sharing your awesome sunny coconut with the land locked, snow boot wearing folk of Colorado.  We had a great show at the Firefly Holiday Market last weekend, thank you to everyone that came out and supported us makers, designers and scramblers.

THIS amazing photo by Ross Evertson.

RedCampers roots are in the back of a 1978 Blue ford with a Red Camper on the back, but we love cars. Fast cars, big cars with lots of seats, small cars, round cars, square cars, and cars that only go 40mph, but oh do we have a soft spot for those big, loud, fast muscle cars of the day. Which is why we were originally inspired to make our laptop bag line out of vintage car upholstery that was found in the way back of a warehouse in the heart of the desert. The Skylark (now discontinued), the Chevelle, the Charger and the Dart are our current homages to these lovely beasts. Here is a sweet ad for the Chevelle, and here is our own sweet Chevelle, and it’s older sister the Chevelle LTD. Limited Quantities available at Etsy.