Golf bags

It would appear that a lot of people who like Sandstorm also play golf, so we've built a couple of simple 'pencil' golf bags out of the same canvas, leather and brass as our other bags. They're far from super-technical and you're unlikely to see Tiger Woods playing with them on the PGA tour any time soon, but just like everything else we do they look great, feel great and they'll last forever. Once we've built up some stock we'll pop them up on the website.

Natural High in Edinburgh

On Wednesday night we co-hosted an event at the Merchant's Hall in Edinburgh with leading African safari specialists, Natural High: a great company and one we're looking forward to working with closely in future. (If my blogging lately hadn't been so lax I would have posted the details before rather than after the event...will do better next time.)

On the night Mark Houldsworth and Alex Edwards from Natural High gave a fascinating illustated talk on their experiences in Tanzania, while sculptor Mark Coreth gave what I understand was a superb demonstration of his craft. A lucky person also won a Sandstorm Kenya bag but I don't have their details just yet, must find out next week.


Mark Coreth, demonstrating.


Rosanna Osborne with Crispin Kennedy and James Foster. (Great smile Rosanna.)


Clare Kennedy with Sue Osborne from Africa Venture.


Heather and Julia Stephenson

Business is booming

We had a very good feature in an excellent Kenya supplement in the UK Daily Telegraph on Saturday (the bag shown is one of our most enduring styles, a Weekender in green canvas & leather). Click on the picture and you can read the page or alternatively you'll find the online equivalent here.

Inauguration celebration

Kenya was an especially great place to be yesterday as the nation gathered around their television screens to watch and to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. That Kenya was the birthplace of Obama's father is well known, but perhaps less well known (certainly outside Kenya) was that his father was a Luo, the same tribe as the vast majority of our skilled craftsmen and women, so they had even greater cause for celebration. Perhaps a few sore heads this morning!