Etsy Find of the Day: Customized Vintage Suitcase

Brand-new Etsy sellers finalapproach take vintage suitcases and reinvent them with with paint, collage, and decoupage.

Take this clever creation, dubbed "The Longest Road Trip" by the crafty Tennessee couple: Who doesn't remember those interminable, sticky summer driving trips with mom and dad singing along to AM radio and all the kids piled up in the back of the family station wagon? (Even if you never actually took such a trip, they've sort of become part of our collective consciousness, haven't they?)

The customized hard-shell suitcase, which measures 23 by 17 inches, is $40 right here.

Objects of Lust: Orla Kiely Car-Print Travel Bags

Oooh -- I wish I'd had one of these adorable Orla Kiely Wheelie or Weekend bags for my trip to Portland last week, or for some future getaway to someplace wonderful.

I also wish I was one of those women you see jauntily wheeling a smart little overnight bag through the airport, her straight blond hair pulled into a sleek ponytail, expensive sunglasses shielding her eyes, a chic belted coat nipped in at her tiny waist, and some serious-looking heels poking out from under a pair of impossibly long dark-rinse jeans -- and not, you know, this frizzy-haired mess wearing sweats and flip-flops and trying to cram two weeks' worth of junk into a boringly sturdy and generic suitcase while her kids squabble and "flight delayed" flashes on the Departures screen.

In other words, it ain't gonna happen. But a girl can dream, right?

Available for $300 and $400 each from Neiman Marcus.