Goose Bowling Christmas Tote Bag Geese Pins Santa Hat Reindeer Antlers Lights

A small gold star sits on the head of the tallest goose, and that one detail turns six bowling-pin birds into a Christmas tree. The others lean in around it, shoulders tucked into knitted sweaters, beaks all pointing the same cheerful way. It looks like a strike that stopped halfway and decided to get dressed for the holidays. Snowflakes drift in the gaps between them. Nobody seems worried about the ball.

Goose Bowling Christmas Tote Bag With Six Geese Stacked Into a Tree

This Goose Bowling Christmas tote bag is made for the person who already keeps a goose of some kind on a shelf, or the one who bowls on Thursday nights and still talks about a split from last season. A tote with geese dressed as bowling pins gives both of them the same reason to grin. We drew this flock in-house, so the sweaters, hats and tiny snowflakes belong to this design alone. It can carry wrapped presents to a family dinner, a casserole to the neighbors, or a few library books through a cold December, and it never looks like it is trying too hard. Plenty of people will want one for themselves.

Each goose found its own way into the spirit of the season. The one at the bottom left wears a Santa hat with a silver bell and a green sweater hung with red and gold ornaments. Beside the tree’s center, a goose in a red sweater with a white snowflake on the chest has pinned on reindeer antlers, and a second pair of antlers pokes up from behind the goose in the middle, who is wrapped in strings of colored lights from neck to belly. Up on the right, a goose in a candy cane sweater tips a Santa hat over one eye. The bird at the far right wears two small holly leaves on its head, a red coat, a black belt with a gold buckle and a fluffy white collar, so it reads as a very short Santa. The star-topped goose at the peak has a little garland around its neck. That is the joke.

Where Else Does a Tote With Six Sweater-Wearing Geese Fit In?

Anywhere a bag gets carried, from the cookie swap and the office gift exchange to a January league night where the bowling pins on it finally feel at home. The geese are bowling pins first and holiday birds second, so the humor still works once the tinsel comes down.

Whoever opens it will probably spot the star first, then spend a minute counting how many geese are hiding behind the sweaters.