Maya, i do think it is too short. Could you wear it as a bag on your shoulder, not cross-body?

I guess I could, but I don't really want to. I really wanted a blue crossbody, not a blue shoulder bag.

You should take a trip to the garment district in NYC. You might find a strap of sorts that could work instead of hardware.

What other strap might work though? A chain strap could be nice but it doesn't sound like the most comfortable thing to have digging into my shoulder. Hmm. I was going to just look for two giant o-rings to attach somehow, but I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding them! I even checked Mood's website and all they have are wood rings. I'm not too familiar with the garment district (well, at least not in terms of actually shopping for textiles and notions and such).

I did discover that I could possibly have the peg moved and placed in a different location to add length, so I think that might be easier.

I would try the hardware store--when I took my boyfriend's leather messenger bag to the cobbler, he didn't have any replacement brass D-rings, so I had the cobbler measure the existing one (one had popped off and gone AWOL--hence the cobbler trip) and just went over a block to the hardware store and picked up two matching ones (they had brass and silvertone, and many many many different sizes), and he replaced both. It looks totally normal.

Oh, good call Dash. Do you remember what department they were in or what they were called? Just D rings? The hardware on my bag is gold and I'm having trouble finding gold O rings.

I just asked one of the guys at the hardware store--I was in and out in under 3 minutes.

Here are some I found.

Not sure of the color on these:
http://www.studiokatdesigns.co.....pplies.htm

Might be worth writing to this store owner:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/PurseParts

These are expensive
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-Metal-pu.....563d034dda