Bookhou at home...

I need a bag. I would like it to be waxed and grey and sturdy -- so it doesn't show the salt and slush of Ottawa streets in January. I found it -- designed and made in Toronto by a husband and wife team (John Booth and Arounna Khounnoraj of Bookhou). It appears to be a lovely grey-blue -- the color of storm clouds. I'm ordering as soon as I finish this blog entry. They make other things -- furniture, ceramics, and textiles. The ceramics in particular speak of forests in winter, black elemental figures in snowy fields, Canadian cold. How cold? -- it is -27 c in our Capital city tonight.