Jan Burruel, owner of Jan's Bags, has been in banking, travel, accounting, real estate, a country club manager, and she is a wife, mother,grandmother, and now a greatgrandmother. All of that, in itself, is amazing and a life to be proud of. She has always been a hardworking, diligent, and loyal employee. In all of her expertise in several different careers, she has found solace in working with her hands in many different creative ways.
Since a young age, Jan has been sewing, designing, and creating. In several of her above mentioned jobs, she was given the opportunity to not only show her creative side but to design and produce her own pieces. While she managed Seven Lakes Country Club in Palm Springs, Jan was in charge of organizing ladies' golf tournaments, luncheons, working on different ladies' golf committies, and planning several other fun activities. As Jan and committee members tried to decide on tee prizes and other table center pieces, she came up with the idea of designer golf shoe bags. She had seen a few creative golf shoe bags in magazines and decided to come up with a concept of her own.
Jan began to collect children's jeans, and with those, she created an array of different golf shoe bag styles and colors. That was really the beginning of Jan's Bags although the company did not come together untill several years later when Jan was approched by Seven Lakes again and asked if she could design more bags for tee prizes. With her creative gifts and ingenuity, she produced a hundred bags with the Country Club's logo on the pocket, making it not only a wonderful memento for the women to have to remember the event by but incredible advertisement for Seven Lakes Country Club as Well.
During the time that Jan was building the hundred bags [by hand], her brother-in-law, Phillip J Burruel, told her that she needed to market them and start selling them nation wide. After careful research and scrupulous hands on study, Jan's Bags launched in 2007. Jan herself, personally picks all of the materials, decals, belting, and all of the trimmings. So, although the company has its bags professionally produced in Kentucky, they are all still completely Jan... beautifully created with heart.
Now, Jan's Bags has started producing wine bags as well. Forever thinking of how not to wast anything, Jan decided the legs of all those jeans needed a purpose. So out of the very jeans they use to create the golf shoe bags, Jan uses the rest of the pant legs to create uniquely beautiful wine bags. Who couldn't love a company that is keeping its wast to a minimum and designing, producing,and building its product in the United States of America.
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