When my older daughter was a senior in high school, I decorated one of her lunch bags with Brown University graphics because we were about to visit the campus in Rhode Island, and she was excited about the prospects of life after high school. From that day on, I started decorating (and photographing) lunch bags for both my daughters on every day they took a lunch to school. They were simple Sharpie drawings, mostly original, some not so original, but always bright, cheery drawings. I'm going on two and half years doing this, and as best I can count, I've drawn on 345 lunch bags. For Christmas last year, my younger daughter ranked her top ten favorite bags and put them in a scrapbook for me. Here they are—David Letterman style—in descending order.
#10 First day of spring.
#9 This was the day of cheerleading tryouts.
Tied for 8th. Monograms are everywhere in the south.
Tied for 8th.
#7 We live on Mobile Bay. Sailboats can be seen year-round.
#6 Simple flower because A) I was stumped for something to draw or B) we were running late.
#5 Apologies to Vineyard Vines for the shameless rip-off.
#4 Kate's class was painting a Habitat house that day.
#3 Est. 1999. Because everyone needs a hipster logo.
#2 Inspired by Highlight's™ hidden pictures club.
#1 Insprired by the brilliance of Pixar's Up.