Purses Out and About

I recently discovered Moxie and the Compound, a boutique at 909 East Mary in Austin. I stopped in a couple of weeks ago to talk to owner Kayci Wheatley, but she was busy playing hostess for the Today show and a story on (I think she said) "grepsters", a word I'd never heard before, but a concept with which I'm intimately familiar. Apparently there is a need for a word describing parents who stayed cool after they had kids -- you know who you are. So I came back the next day and she picked some of my petal bags, messengers and little boy pouches for the store while Katie, Willie and Henry looked around at all the great stuff in there. It's a colorful, fun place where you can get locally designed and handmade things like pretty shoes and aprons to silly diaper bags and tee shirts. And of course now my bags! It's family friendly and there's a good coffee shop next door, too.